Obama Campaign Website Before Purge: Troops Out Of Iraq By 2009, After Purge: Troops Out by 2010
Here’s what Obama’s campaign website used to say about troop withdrawals from the war in Iraq:
All Combat Troops Redeployed by 2009: Barack Obama would immediately begin redeploying American troops from Iraq. The withdrawal would be strategic and phased, directed by military commanders on the ground and done in consultation with the Iraqi government. Troops would be removed from secure areas first, with troops remaining longer in more volatile areas. The drawdown would begin immediately with one to two combat brigades redeploying each month and all troops engaged in combat operations out by the end of next year.
Here’s what it says now:
Barack Obama said Monday he would set a goal of having all U.S. combat brigades out of Iraq by summer 2010 and shift more resources to fighting Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.
It’s worth noting that had Obama and most of his Democrat colleagues gotten their way in, say 2006 there wouldn’t be any US troops in Iraq right now having the sort of success that’s forcing Obama to push back his time line for defeat by another year.















