Obama to Order Iraq Withdrawal on Day One

[lame54]

http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/Inauguration/story?id=6674817&page=1

Obama to Order Iraq Withdrawal on Day One, Axelrod Says
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By MARY BRUCE
Jan. 18, 2009

Incoming White House senior adviser David Axelrod said this morning that President-elect Barack Obama will fulfill his campaign promise and begin on Wednesday the process of withdrawing America forces from Iraq within 16 months.


ncoming White House senior adviser David Axelrod is interviewed on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" on Sunday, Jan. 18, 2009.

"He believes that that is a reasonable timetable. We've moved a great distance from the time he started talking about that, and now we're in an area where everyone agrees that we should be on a path to withdrawing those troops. And he is going to begin that process, as promised, on that day," Axelrod said in a "This Week" interview with George Stephanopoulos.

On Wednesday, Obama will call in his military commanders and ask them to come back with a plan for withdrawal.

[Bicoastal]

1. YES!!

[tekisui]

2. Iraq Withdrawel, Closing Gitmo, Ending Torture.

Makes this election worthwhile and celebratory. Not to mention nominations to the Supreme Court that will be coming.

[laconicsax]

3. That's one hell of a misleading headline.

"Obama to Order Iraq Withdrawal on Day One" vs. "On Wednesday, Obama will call in his military commanders and ask them to come back with a plan for withdrawal."

[leftstreet]

4. What a bullshit headline. And so the spin begins...

x(

[madrchsod]

5. it`s going to take 16 months to withdraw from iraq

anyone that thinks it`s going to be any sooner does`t understand how a military safely withdraws it`s forces and equiment....i remember watching the withdraw from saigon on tv.....