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Originally Posted by scout
No matter who is elected there is no way we can bring our troops home shortly after the inauguration. It ain't gonna happen. Don't fool yourself, don't believe the lie. If we do it will be one of the biggest foreign policy fiasco's in history, bigger than the war in Iraq is/was or will ever be. Sure the current administration lied and fucked up getting us where we are but now that we are there to just pull out will be much much worse. /endhijack
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I dont expect Obama to bring all the troops home shortly after the inauguration.
I do expect Obama to implement a strategy that will BEGIN the process of drawing down the 140,000+ troops in Iraq and BEGIN a much more active diplomatic process involving ME countries (Saudi, Egypt, Jordan and yes, Iran) towards political and economic stability and reconciliation.
I expect that it will take more than a year, once the process begins, to reduce our presence in Iraq to a very small force level.
The fiasco would be if Obama continued with the current Bush or McCain strategy in Iraq.