Obama scheduled to make Iraq Policy Speech in Clinton, Iowa, Wednesday.

[illinoisprogressive]

Presidential hopeful Barack Obama plans to make a major policy speech on Iraq when he comes to Clinton, Iowa, Wednesday, a Democratic official who’s familiar with the campaign’s plans said Sunday.

The speech is planned for after Gen. David Patraeus and U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker give their much-anticipated progress report to Congress about the surge in Iraq.

Obama, a Democratic senator from Illinois, is planning a two-day trip to Clinton, Davenport, Maquoketa, Anamosa and Dubuque on Wednesday and Thursday.

The address on Iraq, the official said, will include new policy proposals on troop withdrawals, diplomacy in Iraq and the region and ideas about what to do about the humanitarian crisis in Iraq. He’ll also talk about his ideas for U.S. leadership in the region after the war, the official said.

In January, Obama announced a plan to begin a troop withdrawal that was to have begun by last May. The goal was to have combat brigades out of the country by March 31, 2008.

Obama will be accompanied on this trip by Zbigniew Brezezinski, the national security adviser for Jimmy Carter. Brezezinski announced his support for Obama last month.
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[TwilightGardener]

1. I'm glad Z-Bigski endorsed him--that should quell any doubts about Obama's

foreign policy creds.