Obama preparing back away from troop withdrawl pledge
By Rizzuto
Wed Jun 25, 2008 - Here comes another in what will likely be a long list of broken campaign promises from the Obama camp. This one is not quite like his decision to not take public financing. This one is fundamental to his campaign and hits home with the average American voter. This from the Financial Times:
[A] growing number of Democratic foreign policy wonks are hoping that Barack Obama will [abandon] his Iraq election promises if he wins the race for the White House in November...
The latest Pentagon report on Iraq this week concluded that “total security incidents” had fallen to their lowest level in four years. In addition to the sharp reduction in US troop and Iraqi civilian casualties, supporters of the troop “surge” point to increasingly credible signs of reconciliation between Nuri al-Maliki’s Shia-led government and the Sunni groups that oppose al-Qaeda.
“It would be reckless to withdraw all our combat troops from Iraq before the next Iraqi national election in late 2009,” says Ken ¬Pollack, a former official in the administration of Bill Clinton, now at the Brookings Institution. …
Michael O’Hanlon, a colleague of Mr Pollack’s and a fellow supporter of the surge, said: “Barack Obama has been leaving hints here and there that he is more flexible on the withdrawal from Iraq than you might expect. …”
Mr Obama and some of his most senior foreign policy advisers have been dropping tantalizing hints that there might be a new flexibility over their definition of “withdrawal”.
Flexible on their definition of "withdrawal"...flexible on their definition of "preconditions"...would someone please get this guy a dictionary?
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