This won't set well with the far-left communist anti-Americanist groups such as Code pink and World Can't Wait crowds. Ed Morrissey reports the following:
Barack Obama's adviser on Iraq has written a confidential paper arguing that the US needs to remain robustly engaged in Iraq in order to build on the successes of the past year. The New York Sun's Eli Lake reports on the confidential paper by Colin Kahl, the coordinator for Obama's advisory group on Iraq, which foresees the same kind of long-term presence that John McCain has advocated. It calls for a gradual reduction through 2010 to a baseline presence of as many as 80,000 American troops: [...]And this supports what we have been saying for years...pandering and catering for votes will eventually bite you in your hinder parts. Obama has stated many things about the troops in Iraq from bringing them home immediately on day one and keeping a strike force near by. I really do wish he would make a stand and stay with it. (Read the rest)
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