Out Now!

-Justin Raimondo

The other day, President Obama made a speech in which, among other things, he pledged that the U.S. would withdraw from Iraq on schedule. The question is: according to whose schedule? Because shortly after Obama spoke, the Iraqi government announced it wants to hold a referendum in January on whether U.S. forces should leave earlier than the 2011 deadline stipulated in the status of forces agreement signed last year by the Bush administration and the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

The move appeared to take Washington by surprise, and the timing could not be worse for the Obamaites and the future peace of the region – just as tensions between the Kurds and the central government in Baghdad reach a crescendo over the disputed city of Kirkuk.

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