Obama Adviser Calls for Troops To Stay in Iraq Through 2010
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A key adviser to Senator Obama’s campaign is recommending in a confidential paper that America keep between 60,000 and 80,000 troops in Iraq as of late 2010, a plan at odds with the public pledge of the Illinois senator to withdraw combat forces from Iraq within 16 months of taking office.
The paper, obtained by The New York Sun, was written by Colin Kahl for the center-left Center for a New American Security. In “Stay on Success: A Policy of Conditional Engagement,” Mr. Kahl writes that through negotiations with the Iraqi government “the U.S. should aim to transition to a sustainable over-watch posture (of perhaps 60,000–80,000 forces) by the end of 2010 (although the specific timelines should be the byproduct of negotiations and conditions on the ground).”
Mr. Kahl is the day-to-day coordinator of the Obama campaign’s working group on Iraq. A shorter and less detailed version of this paper appeared on the center’s Web site as a policy brief.
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So nomatter what myth a candidate is running on, NO candidate is going to run away the second they get elected like a couple of them "claim"...
What I really find interesting is that Obama's advisor calls the document "
Stay on Success: A Policy of Conditional Engagement" while Obama runs around telling everyone we can't win...
04-04-2008, 02:46 PM
Obama Adviser Calls for Troops To Stay in Iraq Through 2010
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