Obama has no choice other than to stick to his guns about getting our troops home in 16 months

If he "adjusts" his position of withdrawing all the troops within 16 months, the Right Wing will obliterate him, pegging him with the dreaded flip-flop label until it sticks. For the good of the world, he better not cave one iota on his withdrawal plans when he returns home from his trip to Iraq. If he changes ANYTHING concerning his time frame of troop withdrawal, I'd like to see him change it from 16 months to 14 months or fewer. That would be the direction to go.

They are going to be redeployed to Afghanistan and raid into Pakistan to get Bin Laden. That has always been his position. He will have to assess the safety issue of how the troops are being pulled out. But with the Iraqis also wanting a time table, including the prime minister, we may be seeing pullbacks before Senator Obama takes office. Bush said, we would be there only as long as the Iraqis wanted us. Now he is being called on it. :)


This is not going to be a cakewalk, but at least we have someone willing to address it, and has a plan and can describe it (Obama. Still waiting for the right wing to explain to me what they consider "victory" to be

This is not going to be like Viet Nam and people hanging off the roof of the embassy.

serves as a way to reinforce his position of getting the f@ck out.

if he makes his main focus the economy.

No one, not Obama, not McCain, not if Clinton or Biden or Dodd or Edwards, if they were the nominee, can guarantee that troops will be home in 1 month, 6 months, 10 months or 16 months.

If candidates start making those promises and can't deliver, then they are in a load of trouble.


Getting out of Iraq should be a priority but it may be a lot harder convincing House and Senate members that that is the best thing to do. The DEMS won control of Congress b.c of their promises, and so far, we are still stuck in the desert. I know their are obstacles in achieving that goal, i.e. not enough DEM votes but still it makes DEMS look bad when they can't produce.