BAGHDAD, July 18 -- As Sen. Barack Obama prepares for his second visit to Iraq, Iraqis are divided over his plan to withdraw U.S. combat troops in 16 months should he be elected president

Mr O, we ain't gonna go! Mr flip flop will probably change his position at least 20 more times, depending on the political wind.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...071803152.html

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Cheney is the second executive officer to shoot someone in the face and chest. Clinton was the first.

let's see what they said regarding our staying or leaving:
any surprise that the general wants our forces to stick around another twelve years, risking their lives to fight his country's civil war?

anyone surprised that someone outside the government, who seeks to maintain his political authority in the form of a militia, whose existance is being challenged by our military, wants us gone?

so, yep, as your thread title says "Iraqis Differ on Obama's Plans"
what's your point ... that Obama will not hold firm to his position that American troops will be withdrawn. he has shown no inclination to back away from that long-held position thus far ... but i welcome you to prove me wrong that unlike mKKKain, Obama is not flip flopping here

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“Mayor Palin fails to have a firm grasp of something very simple: the truth.”

[Frontiersman editorial, 2/7/97]

Flip flop, flip flop, this is the sound of Obama's clock. Welcome me to prove you wrong?

....well...OK, here ya go:

Prior to his Houston remarks, Obama's previous position favored an American combat troop withdrawal over a sixteen-to-eighteen-month timeframe. He has been less specific on the number and mission of any advisers he would leave behind.

Ending the war in the first year of his potential presidency, therefore, is the strongest stand Obama has taken thus far, and one he will be questioned on sharply by the Republicans and the media. As Juan Cole noted last year, the Bush-Cheney team is preparing a "poison pill" of disorder and blame for any future President contemplating an Iraq troop withdrawal.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080303/hayden

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Cheney is the second executive officer to shoot someone in the face and chest. Clinton was the first.

Yep. I see yet another "change" a-coming! <G> He's all about "change," isn't he???

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"This is a time for a national imperative not to fail in Iraq." Condoleeza Rice, January 11, 2007

YOU WONT GET TOO MANY REPLYS TO THIS THREAD. I POSTED THE SAME THING HERE> Obama's Plan Scares the Hell Out Of The Iraqis!

let's hear what maliki has to say on the matter:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/...566841,00.html

so, it would appear this is consistent with Obama's projections

and that would make you ... what's the word ... WRONG. try again

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“Mayor Palin fails to have a firm grasp of something very simple: the truth.”

[Frontiersman editorial, 2/7/97]

Then there's this:

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...or-obama-plan/

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The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

....Is that the same Nouri al-Maliki that all the left wing loons say is a puppet president picked by Bush? Flip flop, flip flop. You guys need to make up your minds, either he is their elected president(which he is), or he is Bush's puppet, which is it?

This still doesn't answer Mr O's commitment he made to America of having our military out of Iraq by the end of 2009. I think that flip flop makes you,
WRONG!

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Cheney is the second executive officer to shoot someone in the face and chest. Clinton was the first.