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"But its timing is particularly embarrassing as the Bush administration's recent agreement with al-Maliki on a "general time horizon" for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq is being cited by some as resembling Obama's proposal that U.S. forces should leave within 16 months."
Uh-oh. Obama thinks he found his "in" on the Iraq debate and his poor judgement regarding the surge. I guess you haven't seen this fodder-rich "briefing" Johnny Mac gave to Obama as a parting gift.
I'm going to enjoy watching him try and turn this story around and squirm out of his previous comments.
In addition, Maliki said he would like to see troops withdraw "as soon as possible". Again, it's all based on conditions on the ground, the same thing the president has said all along.
Thank god Obama didn't get the defeat he was after.
"Iraq will be in hell, and we will find ourselves at the gates of civil war," said Maied Rashed al-Nuaemi, a provincial council member in Mosul, a city in northern Iraq where Iraqi forces are battling the Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq. "The American presence in Iraq is the safety valve to keep this country quiet. If they withdraw, that will lead to calamity."
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Some of the more than two dozen Iraqis interviewed for this article said Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee, is naive in wanting to withdraw U.S. combat troops by the summer of 2010. Others viewed his position as a political calculation to win votes from a populace tired of war.
"I think that Obama talks more than what he can accomplish, because reality differs from promises and dreams," said Um Mohammed, 60, an engineer in Baghdad who declined to give her full name. "I think it is just a camouflage to reach the presidential chair. It's a way to satisfy the American people and the American mothers."
How perceptive the Iraqi's are, yes?
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