" I intend to remove all U.S. troops from Iraq ...

[SHRED]

...by the end of 2011. We will complete this transition to Iraqi responsibility, and we will bring our troops home with the honor that they have earned."

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-of-President-Barack-Obama-Responsibly-Ending-the-War-in-Iraq/

Now this:

The White House is offering to keep up to 10,000 troops in Iraq next year, U.S. officials say, despite opposition from many Iraqis and key Democratic Party allies who demand that President Barack Obama bring home the American military as promised.

http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Sources-10-000-US-troops-on-offer-for-Iraq-1452986.php

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Really? Again Mr. President?
Another "intention" broken?
:mad:

[newfie11]

1. yeah a president we can believe in (NOT) n/t

[xchrom]

2. recommend

[blkmusclmachine]

3. Someone lied.

But what's a few more deaths and a ton of our money? Not like we've got anything better to do with it (or them). :sarcasm:

[TBMASE]

4. Gitmo was supposed to be closed too

disappointment after disappointment

[JTFrog]

6. Yes, Congress has been one disappointment after another.

I applaud Obama for signing an executive order to close Gitmo.

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. And the NEW Gitmo ( Bagram, in Afghanistan) gets zero publicity.

[JTFrog]

5. "Sources": 10,000 US troops on offer for Iraq

"All spoke on condition of anonymity to frankly discuss the sensitive matter during interviews over the past two weeks."

Then there are the not so anonymous parts of the article:

White House spokesman Jay Carney on Tuesday said the Pentagon is still planning for all U.S. troops to withdraw by year's end, noting that time is running out for Iraq's government to ask them to stay.

"We have said for a long time now if the Iraqi government asks us to maintain some level of troops beyond that end of the year deadline, we would consider it," Carney told reporters in Washington.

He appeared to back off that possibility, however, adding: "That doesn't necessarily mean we would do it. We would just consider it. And I really don't have any more information on that possible outcome because, again, we haven't even gotten a request."

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Without a request from Iraq, fewer than 200 active duty troops would stay at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad as military advisers, a role that is common for American diplomatic missions worldwide. More than 166,000 U.S. troops were in Iraq in October 2007, the peak of the Pentagon's surge.

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But Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki refuses to publicly endorse a troops' extension. One of his critical political allies — a Shiite movement headed by anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr — has threatened widespread violence if troops stay. Al-Sadr's militias once waged fierce attacks on U.S. forces.

Read more: http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Sources-10-000-US-troops-on-offer-for-Iraq-1452986.php#ixzz1RcEwaXh6

[tekisui]

15. Mullen confirmed the US and Iraq are negotiating an extension.

Not anonymous, there.

[Doctor_J]

7. Wow. Another lie

is this supposed to be news?

[msongs]

8. "intend" = weasel word. like depends on what the meaning of "is" is. nt

[dixiegrrrrl]

10. Better keep a copy of that 2009 speech, before it goes down the memory hole.

[amyrose2712]

12. +1

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[Dept of Beer]

13. Why do you hate imperialists so much?

I would expect that from CL WoPo, but here?

:evilgrin:

[SHRED]

14. stealth...shhh...lol

MD in the house?

[Dept of Beer]

17. I'm no doctor.

[SHRED]

18. ;)

[blindpig]

16. Ha! That was a good one.

He so funny.

Of course, the joke's on us.