By June 30, all U.S. combat troops are scheduled—in fact, they're required—to be withdrawn from all of Iraq's cities, towns, and villages. What will happen then? Many are concerned that Iraq will then devolve into bloody civil war.

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President Barack Obama pledges troop withdrawal by August 2010

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WASHINGTON — President Obama heads to one of the nation's most storied military bases Friday morning to unveil plans to pull most troops out of Iraq by August 2010 and he has support from an unlikely quarter — Senator John McCain, the Republican he beat in last year's ele …

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Iraq's parliament on Thursday approved a landmark military pact that will see all US troops withdraw by the end of 2011, eight years after the invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein and plunged the country into chaos.

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Another theory: Recruitment is apparently falling off sharply within the last month or so. I have heard, anecdotally, that new recruits are waiting out the election, since most of them have no desire to serve in the kind of toothless military they see under a President Obama.

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Obama's Flip-Flop on Iraq Troop Withdrawal.

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Capping off a week of disappointments for his progressive supporters, Barack Obama backed away from the idea of a timely withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq, a signature plank in his campaign.

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In contrast to his praise for Tony Blair, George Bush has used an interview to deliver a stern warning for Gordon Brown not to announce a timetable for a British pull-out from Iraq, and was also sceptical about the Prime Minister's oil price strategy.

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Oil Speculators Are Guilty of Crimes Against Humanity and Financial Treason

As the potential for Senator Barack Obama becoming the Democratic Party Presidential standard-bearer in the 2008 General Election dawns, it now is time to start surmising what motivates his stances on critical issues. Sen.

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British troop withdrawal on hold while Iraqi/Mehdi Army fighting intensifies in Iraq.

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United States forces will continue to pull out of Iraq despite last night s twin bombing in Baghdad that left at least 68 people dead and 120 injured.

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''Bush's efforts to negotiate a long-term U.S-Iraq pact may remove troops as an '08 election issue for Obama, Clinton.

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The bottom line is clear, Mr. President: The more you worried about the unchecked spread of doomsday weapons, the stronger you thought the case was for war in the first place.

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Democratic candidates are pinned down on how quickly they would bring troops home from Iraq. The front-runners said it could take them years.

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Top Democrats: No Iraq Troop Withdrawal

The leading Democratic White House hopefuls conceded Wednesday night they cannot guarantee to pull all U.S. combat troops from Iraq by the end of the next presidential term in 2013. ... - CNN, 9/27/07

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The fact that he's given so few speeches talking to the American people about a cause he himself has identified as vital to the War on Terror, failing spectacularly to explain as honestly and forthrightly as possible where we are, where we need to be, and where we are going in  …

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Barely a quarter of Iraqis say their security has improved in the past six months, a negative assessment of the surge in U.S. forces that reflects worsening public attitudes across a range of measures, even as authorities report some progress curtailing violence.

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Bush says his new goal is to have the presidential candidates "comfortable about sustaining a presence" in Iraq, contradicting every rationale for his Iraq policy he's offered. The following is MSNBC Countdown host Keith Olbermann's special comment addressed to President Bush.

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Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton proposed Thursday that Congress repeal the authority it gave President Bush in 2002 to invade Iraq, injecting presidential politics into the Congressional debate over financing the war.

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Let's be clear about what it is – when it comes to "withdrawal" from Iraq – that the President will veto this Wednesday. Section 1904(b) of the supplemental appropriations bill for the Pentagon, H.R.

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The Washington charade continues without interruption, as the bloody slaughter in Iraq goes on every hour of every day.

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Corporal Richard Bradley, of the Staffordshire Regiment, told the 10 O'clock News on BBC One: "I believe that they should pull every single British troop out of Iraq because at the end of the day were are not achieving nothing out there.

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By dictating troop withdrawal in the spending bill, Congress has now not only set a precident, but has also shifted the balance of power from equal parts among the three branches to a majority in the Legislation Branch.

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What separates a statesman from a politician is the foresight to place the national interest above fleeting partisan advantage – even at the cost of sharp reprisals from one's colleagues. In that sense, Rep. Howard Berman, D-CA, is the statesman of the antiwar Left.

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