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Obama's Troop Drawdown Decision Will End Iraq War in Late 2010, Officials Say
FOX NEWS ^ | February 27, 2009 | Major Garrett

Posted on 02/27/2009 8:40:02 AM PST by kellynla

Obama told top leaders in Congress on Thursday that he will transition the mission in Iraq to training, advising and engaging in limited counter-terrorist operations.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 111th; bho44; bhodod; cicobama; iraq; missionaccomplished; missonaccomplished; obama; oif; timetable; troopwithdrawal; war
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To: omega4179
He won’t even declare victory and congratulate our troops. We will slink out in the dead of night some time in 2010 Pathetic America hating fake president!

Not defending Obomber here, but this has been in the works for a while. BHO is just manipulating the headlines and stupid people on the left who think he's actually pulling each and every troop out of the country when in fact that's not happening.
81 posted on 02/27/2009 10:45:17 PM PST by MikefromOhio (Fides et Audax)
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To: MikefromOhio

I know we would have been “out” anyway in 2010 but not with a president acting like he is deeply ashamed of our success there. Its a free and safe country, far safer than Mexico LA or Chicago.


82 posted on 02/27/2009 10:51:38 PM PST by omega4179 (Jindal MMXII)
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To: MikefromOhio
Obama lied/lies to his wife about his homosexual physical encounters with his wife. She is obviously now aware that he has had sexual encounters with other men while they have been married. If he is willing and capable of lying to the person he is married to for years on end, he is capable of lying strangers he has never met, ie: We The People.

It doesn't matter what Obama says...because every time he speaks, you must know that at the very least there is a 50/50 chance he is lying. Because he lied to his wife, or maybe she knew when she married him that he would continue to have sex with men. If that's the case, he didn't necessarily lie to her, but he is lying to everyone else with ease.

It appears Obama is a pathological liar, but has never been exposed for his lies. Lying by omission is still lying. Just like George Clooney. He tries to portray himself as heterosexual for his career, when everyone in LA and Italy knows he today's modern day Rock HuLIdson.

Obama’s nature is to LIE. Remember, everyday Obama is lying. And until is is delivered from bearing false witness, he will continue to lie non-stop. Obama = LIAR

OBAMA = LIAR
OBAMA = LIAR

83 posted on 02/27/2009 10:59:19 PM PST by chrt30
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To: shoutingandpointing
Let the troops finish the job by letting the troops do their job.

Okay, define what that job is for starters.

84 posted on 02/27/2009 11:17:03 PM PST by VaMarVet (General Zinni - dismissed for protecting us in dangerous times... Pass the ammunition.)
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To: kellynla
Obama's Troop Drawdown Decision Will End Iraq War in Late 2010

Sadly Iraq will not be ready and will collapse 1 or 2 years later 

85 posted on 02/27/2009 11:23:42 PM PST by valkyry1
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To: Verginius Rufus

sure seems so..he said August 2010 right? just in time


86 posted on 02/27/2009 11:48:34 PM PST by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85 -Happy B'day Daddy 2/20/23)
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To: rlmorel

Topps cards, how ridiculous. Is our miliary the equivalent of a sport to these idiot libs?


87 posted on 02/27/2009 11:53:17 PM PST by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85 -Happy B'day Daddy 2/20/23)
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To: kellynla

While things in Iraq have improved dramatically, this is obviously—as others on this thread have observed—more about Obama’s spending than anything else.

How long were we in Germany after WW2? Korea?

Harry Reid said this was was lost not too many years ago—NOW it’s in such good shape we can set a date less than two years from now to leave?

Obama is in perpetual campaign mode, obviously. His eyes are on election day 2010. He knows from the last election that Iraq doesn’t alter election outcomes. It doesn’t matter if this is right or wrong, what matters is how voters PERCEIVE things ON election day.

He is training all of his resources on the takers, who will RUN to vote on election day 2010 if they feel a change will cause a drop in the money they can take.

And the day after election day 2010, he will look toward election day 2012 and do what is necessary to win THAT.

As with the Clintons, ALL he cares about is gaining and holding power. That is what his policy decisions are about.


88 posted on 02/28/2009 1:27:51 AM PST by Darkwolf377 (Hope you're happy with your "send a message to the RNC" vote)
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To: kellynla; P-Marlowe; Lancey Howard; RedRover; pissant
training, advising and engaging in limited counter-terrorist operations

My son, deploying again to Iraq, called last night to laugh about this. He said, "This is basically the Bush timeline: elections, stability, and all we wish will be in place by the time the Iraqis have asked us to decrease our presence. They're saying basically what Bush said, but no one in the media is saying anything."

And now this: (1) Training (we're already doing that); (2) Advising (we're already doing that); (3) Engaging in limited combat operations (we've already started that with the Iraqis taking the lead in combat ops, and the plan is to get to the point where we do "limited combat operations."

Amazing. My son's right.

They are simply repeating Bush's words, following Bush's agenda, and they're being treated as if they've discovered something exciting and new.

89 posted on 02/28/2009 3:44:50 AM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain, Pro Deo et Patria)
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To: kellynla

Now Al Quaeda is saying: “Boys, now we just have to HANG ON till August 2010, and we WIN!” They are already counting down the days.


90 posted on 02/28/2009 4:54:49 AM PST by 2harddrive (...House a TOTAL Loss.....)
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To: kellynla

Surrendering is a way to end the war, but only in Iraq.

Eventually, the barbarians reach your gate.


91 posted on 02/28/2009 5:20:33 AM PST by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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To: kellynla

Actually, on a reread this is just propaganda to keep the Left on his side. He needs their support to pass his radical domestic agenda.

We’ll never leave Iraq. He’ll just change his mind once his lock on power is secure. The willing dupes are pawns in a much bigger game. Even the One is just a pawn, although in a higher caste.


92 posted on 02/28/2009 5:24:00 AM PST by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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To: Cacique
Right you are. You've got your eye on the prize and so do the Dems. Power is the goal. All this jawboning is for naught.

The goal is to fund the Left such that they cannot lose, despite reality and demographics. Hence DC statehood, ACORN and union funding, pork for local GOTV supporters and elected officials, control of the census etc. are all critical to keeping power.

Forget Porkulus, Iraq, et al.

Figure out how to install a conservative as possible Republican majority. It is he only counterbalance and as the past has proved not a very good one.

Properly managed Federal lawsuits stopping the above until after the 2010 elections are the best short run answer.

93 posted on 02/28/2009 5:31:48 AM PST by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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To: finboy; VaMarVet

Correct. Purple states keep the Dems on their toes. Nixon and the media’s anti-war hysteria is what allowed them to cut the RVN off.

It won’t happen to Iraq.


94 posted on 02/28/2009 5:37:11 AM PST by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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To: KansasGirl

Good one.

The media is very good at manipulating headlines for Obama, too.


95 posted on 02/28/2009 5:38:54 AM PST by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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To: rlmorel

Interesting photo. A black shirt. In Kuwait in July.


96 posted on 02/28/2009 6:31:26 AM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (American Revolution II -- overdue.)
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To: tina07

I couldn’t believe it. I live in the People’s Republic of Massachusetts, and a guy who works with me tried to tweak my tail by giving me these cards.

I must say, it worked. I couldn’t believe it. Oh, never mind. I just remembered, I COULD believe it.


97 posted on 02/28/2009 7:20:10 AM PST by rlmorel ("The Road to Serfdom" by F.A.Hayek - Read it...today.)
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To: kellynla

We get rid of Sadam Hussein, the dictator, and we end up with Barack Hussein, the dictator. Only BHO is a puppet with someone pulling his strings.


98 posted on 02/28/2009 7:25:40 AM PST by Piquaboy
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To: tina07
Topps cards, how ridiculous.

At least he could have given them his thoughtful memorabilia in a form of paper that they could use. Two-ply would have been better.

99 posted on 02/28/2009 7:46:49 AM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: Cheerio

lol piglosi das good ahahahahah


100 posted on 02/28/2009 8:00:31 AM PST by bushmaster76
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