Is this possible? It appears so. Who say’s Ron Paul’s message isn’t getting heard…
Obama announces total Iraq troop withdrawal
By BEN FELLER – AP White House CorrespondentWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Friday declared an end to the Iraq war, one of the longest and most divisive conflicts in U.S. history, announcing that all American troops would be withdrawn from the country by year’s end.
Obama’s statement put an end to months of wrangling over whether the U.S. would maintain a force in Iraq beyond 2011. He never mentioned the tense and ultimately fruitless negotiations with Iraq over whether to keep several thousand U.S. forces there as a training force and a hedge against meddling from Iran or other outside forces.
Instead, Obama spoke of a promise kept, a new day for a self-reliant Iraq and a focus on building up the economy at home.
“I can report that, as promised, the rest of our troops in Iraq will come home by the end of the year,” Obama said. “After nearly nine years, America’s war in Iraq will be over.”
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So glad to know our troops are leaving Iraq.I hope they are coming home.
It's all about getting re-elected. He knows he has pissed off the anti-war activists (even though the media won't report it) and now he is trying to get them back. Everything this idiot does is about politics.
9:14 you guys on the right are just falling all over yourselves trying to somehow score points on this. Rewind to the not so distant past. You'll see that Obama was one of the few speaking out against going into Iraq BEFORE it was popular to do so. He campaigned on bringing the troops home as soon as possible even though conservatives used that as ammo to paint him as weak on defense. And now when he makes this announcment this is supposed to be all about getting re-elected? Well yeah I guess it does make sense to talk about doing something that you said you would do.
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