Obama Doesn’t Plan to End the Occupation in Iraq
December 6th, 2008 by 2CDC
Posted by Jeremy Scahill, AlterNet on December 5, 2008.
The president-elect’s thinking ‘evolves’ — we can expect tens of thousands of American troops to stay.
The New York Times is reporting an “apparent evolution” in president-elect Barack Obama’s thinking on Iraq, citing recent statements about his plan to keep a “residual force” in the country and his pledge to “listen to the recommendations of my commanders” as Obama prepares to assume actual command of U.S. forces. “At the Pentagon and the military headquarters in Iraq, the response to the statements this week from Mr. Obama and his national security team has been akin to the senior officer corps’ letting out its collective breath,” the Times reported. “[T]the words sounded to them like the new president would take a measured approach on the question of troop levels.”
The reality is there is no “evolution.” …
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