Friday, February 27, 2009

Iraq deadline

So President Obama plans to end military operations in Iraq in August, 2010. If he can get the number of troops down to 50,000 by then (without an explosion of violence), then he should thank George W. Bush for his steadfast determination and going with the Surge in 2007.
If things get worse in Iraq, this decision will look pretty bad. He could have done pretty much the same thing without setting a deadline, but the announcement will become a marker if Iraq takes a turn for the worse.
My bet is on Bush's decisions being right, enabling Obama to do what he wanted to do in 2006 but with much better results for the Iraqi people.

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