AlonzoMourning23
03-08-2008, 11:54 AM
What's he doing lately? First he said he'll end it in 16 months from taking office, then it comes out that he's not going to end it just because of some statements he made to get elected, now he's saying he'll end it in 2009, which isn't even 12 full months:
Power's comments about Iraq came in an interview with the BBC. She said Obama's position is that withdrawing all U.S. troops within 16 months is a ``best-case scenario'' that he will revisit if he becomes president.
Obama has actually shortened his original 16-month commitment to say he will end the war in 2009, and he reiterated that promise at a rally Friday.
In Mississippi, Clinton questioned the Iraq comments based on Obama's public statements.
``He has attacked me continuously for having no hard exit date, and now we learn he doesn't have one, in fact he doesn't have a plan at all,'' Clinton told reporters while campaigning in Mississippi.
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/003200803081340.htm
Power's comments about Iraq came in an interview with the BBC. She said Obama's position is that withdrawing all U.S. troops within 16 months is a ``best-case scenario'' that he will revisit if he becomes president.
Obama has actually shortened his original 16-month commitment to say he will end the war in 2009, and he reiterated that promise at a rally Friday.
In Mississippi, Clinton questioned the Iraq comments based on Obama's public statements.
``He has attacked me continuously for having no hard exit date, and now we learn he doesn't have one, in fact he doesn't have a plan at all,'' Clinton told reporters while campaigning in Mississippi.
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/003200803081340.htm