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John McCain Criticizes Iraqi Leaders For Letting Domestic Politics Trump Security

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.13.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The high-stakes debates over the Iraq war no longer play the politically determining role they did during the 2006 congressional electio...

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Obama Announces Iraq Troops Will Be Withdrawn By End Of 2011

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 12.21.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Fulfilling a long-held campaign promise, President Barack Obama announced Friday that he will pull all U.S. troops out of Iraq by the en...

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Obama Thanks Troops: 'America Is Proud Of All Of You'

AP | STACY A. ANDERSON | Posted 09.03.2011

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WASHINGTON — Telling U.S. troops that "America is proud of all of you," President Barack Obama marked the Fourth of July holiday by hosting a ba...

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Biden's Power Grows As Obama's Foreign Policy Team Shuffles

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.27.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The early review of President Barack Obama's withdrawal plans for U.S. forces from Afghanistan is that, in an effort to give each side s...

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Obama To Visit Troops At Fort Drum This Week

AP | Posted 08.20.2011

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WASHINGTON — The White House says President Barack Obama will visit troops at New York's Fort Drum this week. The announcement comes as Obama n...

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Obama To Honor Troops, Thank Osama Bin Laden Raid Participants

AP | By JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 07.06.2011

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FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. -- President Barack Obama has met with the assault forces who carried out the strike on Osama bin Laden and has awarded them a pres...

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Obama: Government Shutdown Will Delay Pay To Troops

AP/The Huffington Post | RICHARD LARDNER and JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 06.06.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration warned Wednesday that a federal shutdown would undermine the economic recovery, delay pay to U.S. troops fighti...

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Obama Calls 10 US Service Members On Thanksgiving (PHOTO)

AP/ The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- On his first Thanksgiving in the White House, President Barack Obama has telephoned 10 U.S. servicemen and women stationed in war zones ...

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Biden's Standing In White House Scrutinized After Afghan Decision

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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On the most fundamental matter at stake in the recent debate over the war in Afghanistan, Vice President Joseph Biden ultimately lost. Weeks before P...

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Obama: Afghanistan Troop Drawdown Won't Be Steep, Aid Will Continue For Years

AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 05.25.2011

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OSLO — President Barack Obama said Thursday that the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, set to start in 19 months, will be gradual and ...

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Garry Wills: Obama Buying Second Term With Lives of Young Americans

New York Review Of Books | Posted 05.25.2011

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I am told by people I respect that Barack Obama cannot pull out of both Iraq and Afghanistan without becoming a one-term president. I think that may b...

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MoveOn Moves Against Obama On Afghanistan

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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The progressive advocacy organization MoveOn.org formally opposed President Obama's troop surge strategy on Tuesday, calling it "wrong" and urging its...

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Are War Generals Undermining Obama's Command In Afghanistan?

Politico | DAVID ROGERS | Posted 05.25.2011

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Implicit in the president's decision is an effective cap of about 100,000 for the American force, but top Democrats fear that unless Obama is more ass...

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New York Times: Military Establishment Frustrated With Pace Of Obama's Deliberations On Afghan War

New York Times | ELISABETH BUMILLER | Posted 05.25.2011

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After nearly a month of deliberations by Mr. Obama over whether to send more American troops to Afghanistan, frustrations and anxiety are on the rise ...

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Obamas Send Christmas Greetings To Troops in joint weekly address

AP/ The Huffington Post | By DARLENE SUPERVILLE | Posted 05.25.2011

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Scroll Down For Video WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama offered Christmas wishes to the nation on Thursday, includ...

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Authors Of Iraq War Push Obama On Afghanistan

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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The neoconservatives who provided the intellectual foundation for the war in Iraq convened on Monday to make a renewed push for the current administra...

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Obama "Not Ruling... Out" More Troops For Afghanistan: Jim Jones

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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The president's National Security Adviser, Jim Jones, said on Sunday that the White House would be open to the idea of sending more combat troops to A...

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Obama Troop Visit "Staged," Conservative Blogs Claim

The Plum Line | Posted 05.25.2011

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There's a claim making the rounds right now on the top right wing blogs that the image of wildly-cheering troops during Obama's visit with them in Ira...

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McCain: Obama Opened Himself Up To Charges Of Incrementalism In Afghanistan

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sen. John McCain largely applauded the Obama administration's approach to Afghanistan on Tuesday. But he said that if he had been elected, he would ha...

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Taliban Leader: We're Targeting American Troops

ABC | Posted 05.25.2011

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Three of the most dangerous Taliban leaders in Pakistan, once arch-enemies, have formed an alliance that could threaten thousands of American troops s...

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Where is Mohammed al-Daini? [Updated]

Dal LaMagna | Posted 05.25.2011

The U.S. may be leaving Iraq, but we should not be abandoning the Iraqi people. Particularly those who have put their lives on the line to rebuild their country in peace.

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What Obama's Iraq Speech Means for American Foreign Policy

Ilan Goldenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

It's not all about Iraq. It is about America's interests around the globe and the costs and benefits of pursuing different strategies.

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Democrats Should Support Obama's Troop Plan

Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 05.25.2011

If Iraq remains or becomes even more stable in 2010, then Obama will almost surely draw down troops even more quickly than he's currently announcing.

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Obama Bringing Troops Home: Are We Ready to Welcome Them?

Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Whether it is 16 months or 19 months or 23 months, whether the residual force is 10,000 or 50,000 troops, the president's new plan will create a surge of new veterans coming home in 2009 and 2010. We need to be ready.

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On the Right Path, Finally, in Iraq

Jon Soltz | Posted 05.25.2011

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If President Obama does continue to draw down, we will be more secure, and our military will now have a chance to repair the damage done to it by the previous administration.

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