Obama Adviser Calls for Troops To Stay in Iraq Through 2010

ELI LAKE
The New York Sun
April 5, 2008

WASHINGTON — A key adviser to Senator Obama’s campaign is recommending in a confidential paper that America keep between 60,000 and 80,000 troops in Iraq as of late 2010, a plan at odds with the public pledge of the Illinois senator to withdraw combat forces from Iraq within 16 months of taking office.

The paper, obtained by The New York Sun, was written by Colin Kahl for the center-left Center for a New American Security. In “Stay on Success: A Policy of Conditional Engagement,” Mr. Kahl writes that through negotiations with the Iraqi government “the U.S. should aim to transition to a sustainable over-watch posture (of perhaps 60,000–80,000 forces) by the end of 2010 (although the specific timelines should be the byproduct of negotiations and conditions on the ground).”

Mr. Kahl is the day-to-day coordinator of the Obama campaign’s working group on Iraq. A shorter and less detailed version of this paper appeared on the center’s Web site as a policy brief.

Both Mr. Kahl and a senior Obama campaign adviser reached yesterday said the paper does not represent the campaign’s Iraq position. Nonetheless, the paper could provide clues as to the ultimate size of the residual American force the candidate has said would remain in Iraq after the withdrawal of combat brigades. The campaign has not publicly discussed the size of such a force in the past.

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  2. bozhidar balkas on April 6th, 2008

    as a member of StopWar.ca i h. stated more than5 yrs ago that the only payoff for US aggression against iraq would b establishment of permament bases there.
    but nobody knows if SD (state dept’t)will break the evil empire into 3 separate states. perforce, we can only guess when and what SD will do; since the end sol’n is not shouted from rooftops. it would depend whether SD can also have regimes in each new state that’l obey US.
    and i think SD can do that. it h. done that in s.arabia, uae, yemen, oman, jordan, egypt, lebanon, morocco, afghanistan, and may b in all ’stans .
    SD h. also brilliantly succeeded in palestine. it’l never rise again.
    as we know iraqi oil flowed inquantities desired. Thus SD did not attack iraq for oil; it wanted the real estate. thank u

  3. jd on April 8th, 2008

    Yeah….SD is brilliant. Yeah…we got all those countries by the balls. Who the hell are you trying to shit up….besides yourself? READ what the hell you just wrote! The only empire building going on is that of the SD….dumbass.

  4. bush=1000000 dead iraqs on April 8th, 2008

    no wonder the usa is hated, this country was sold out by congress that has lawmakers that have invested 150 million of there own money in the war machine so i dont see us leaving iraq until there greed is quinched bloodthursty treasonous bastards need shot in the head.Down with the elite and down with bush’s new world order i would love too see this puke walk down the road after this dictator leaves office that is “IF” he leaves.

  5. Bray on April 8th, 2008
  6. bozhidar balkas on April 9th, 2008

    jd may have misunderstood bozhidar. i’m not approving of US/IOF crimes against humanities. i’m merely noting what goes on. emirates, jordan, egypt, morocco, almost all ’stans are now US client states according the reports i read. palestine is destroyed, iraq is obtained with minimal casualties; thus a ‘brilliant’ success. I forgot to put the word “brilliant” under single quotes. for the ruling class, occupation of iraq is a success.
    i did not say SD is brilliant. check my post. you’ve angered self and had no cause. 200 iraqi legs for one amerian finger is a success for US ruling class; SD being mere employee. but if you continue to attack people then i won’t read your posts. you get just one more chance. thank you

  7. tired of being crazy on April 9th, 2008

    bozhidar
    I understood your post. I posted on this page before and got read the riot act because I did’nt use enough punctuation this is the first time I have posted anything since. It does not matter who “wins” the presidency we will be in Iraq for a long, long time. It makes no difference what the candidates say the plan is in force and will stay in force as long as the American people allow it. I don’t know what kind of crazy scheme they have cooked up to make the Americans accept this but it will probably be some “terrorist attack” which will kill hundreds but they will tell us that it would have been thousands if it were’nt for the great Patriot Act and they will parade the dirty dogs on the nightly news. I expect something huge before the end of summer to secure the change of reteoric from the candidates in the fall so that no matter which puppet is put in the white house we will still be in Iraq.

  8. bozhidar balkas on April 9th, 2008

    to tired of being crazy. i have read your reply. we are in complete agreement. true, nobody knows what the ruling class is aiming for; we can only infer. and that alone is a crime. thanx

  9. Lyte on April 9th, 2008

    The False Messiah/Antichrist will rule from Greater Israel which spans from the Nile to the Euphrates in Iraq.

    This means more land must be stolen for the Evil Empire.

    Of course we will be in Iraq till at least 2010…….

  10. Hmmm.... on April 9th, 2008

    I had to recently do a research paper on the candidates. Not that it was worth writing as none of the candidates stand in any real contrast to each other. ONE PARTY, ONE MIND!! LOL However, it is interesting to note that Obama’08 the website even states a possible Al-Qaeda like event that would trigger a sustained presence that would trump his 16 month draw down. I cant say a policy statement was needed to see through the double speak that has been posted on his website since his arrival on the presidential scene. Look up under his foreign poilcy tab its defintely worth a scan.

  11. Jo Jo Starwalker on April 13th, 2008

    Why not, he’s still a big CFR guy isn’t he?

  12. bozhidar balkas on April 14th, 2008

    jojo! your right. it’s been one goose we two wings. when it comes to expansion thru warfare or threats of warfare, the two wings beat in unison. what obama does is mostly meant to hide the fact that it makes little of no difference who is the Prez. every prez had his war(s) because of this, i no longer follow campaigns nor what politicians say. in any case, it’s the state department, controled by the ruling class, that makes policies. thank you

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