Tuesday, February 24, 2009

U.S. Troops out of Iraq by 2010


My boy looks like he's going to fulfill this promise:

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama plans to order that all U.S. combat troops be withdrawn from Iraq by August 2010, administration officials said Tuesday, ending the war that defined his upstart presidential campaign three months later than he had promised.

Obama's plan would pull out all combat troops 19 months after his inauguration, although he had promised repeatedly during the 2008 campaign that he would withdraw them 16 months after taking office. That schedule, based on removing roughly one brigade a month, was predicated on commanders determining that it would not endanger U.S. troops left behind or Iraq's fragile security.

Pledging to end the war in 16 months helped to build enormous grass-roots support for Obama's White House bid.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

oops. Maybe not.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/62930.html