by Mark Thoma, University of Oregon (Department of Economics)

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Obama: It s Time to End this War

Posted on July 14, 2008

Barack Obama says on my first day in office, I would give the military a new mission: ending this war. He believes that we can safely redeploy our combat brigades at a pace that would remove them in 16 months. That would be the summer of 2010 :My Plan for Iraq, by Barack Obama, Commentary, NY Times: The call by Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki for a timetable for the removal of American troops from Iraq presents an enormous opportunity. We should seize this moment to begin the phased redeployment of combat troops... Unlike Senator John McCain, I opposed the war in Iraq before it began, a...

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