Obama to Announce 19-Month Timeline for Withdrawal of Iraq Combat Troop
Posted by CD | Posted in International Politics, Iraq, Middle Eastern Affairs, Social Issues, U.S. Politics | Posted on 02-25-2009 | 1 Comment »
On the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Obama said he will soon announce a plan to end the war in Iraq.
President Obama: “We are now carefully reviewing our policies in both wars, and I will soon announce a way forward in Iraq that leaves Iraq to its people and responsibly ends this war.”
Administration officials say Obama is preparing to order U.S. combat troops to withdraw from Iraq by August 2010. The nineteen-month deadline would be three months longer than what Obama proposed on the campaign trail. As many as fifty-thousand U.S. troops would still remain in Iraq under Obama’s plan. A “senior military officer” told the Los Angeles Times: “When President Obama said we were going to get out within 16 months, some people heard, ‘get out’, and everyone’s gone. But that is not going to happen.”
"some people heard" …yeah everyone who spoke english and not politico.