'End the War in 2009'

News Type: Event — Seeded on Thu Feb 21, 2008 1:32 PM EST

Article Source: The Nation

politics, obama, iraq, iran, mccain, election, clinton, terror

Barack Obama faces a tough challenge from neocons and from the nutjobs in the rightwing echo chamber regarding his positions on Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, and the so-called "War on Terror." Depending on just how badly George Bush and Dick Cheney manage to create a difficult situation in Iraq, Obama will need to inspire confidence in American voters that he will be able to move his vision for a strong, reality-based foreign policy from the drawing board to the world at large.

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In his victory speech in Texas Tuesday, Barack Obama promised to end the Iraq war in 2009, a new commitment that parallels recent opinion pieces in The Nation.

Prior to his Houston remarks, Obama's previous position favored an American combat troop withdrawal over a sixteen-to-eighteen-month timeframe. He has been less specific on the number and mission of any advisers he would leave behind.

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Bob-241790

They have a word that is not in the vocabulary of the so called ring wing think tanks where the ones who crafted Pax-America and others dreamed up the grandiose scheme of U.S. world conquest, and that word is diplomacy.The problems in Iran,Iraq and Afgan. can only be settled in that manner by dipolmacy and by standing upon our word when given, which the U.S. is not noted for in the countries of the world,the same can be said of the mess in Palestine and Israel, let Israel know from the onset get to the table or all U.S. aid will be withheld they will settle it in record time.I think Obama can and will do this and will certainly vote for him to give him that chance.!!!

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