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Monday, July 21, 2008 --- 45 days ago http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/07/obama_petraeus.html
 by Liz Sly BAGHDAD - Sen. Barack Obama arrived in Baghdad on Monday for a firsthand look at conditions on the ground in Iraq as part of a tour of the Middle East and Europe designed to burnish his foreign-policy credentials. Obama landed first in the southern city of Basra, where he met with coalition commanders, and later flew to Baghdad, where he talked with senior U.S. and Iraqi officials, including Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Ali Dabbagh, the prime minister's spokesman, said Maliki and Obama didn't discuss specifics during the hourlong meeting. But he said the Iraqi government would like to see all American combat troops out of the country by the end of 2010, a bit later than Obama's proposal to draw down all combat brigades within 16 months after he'd become president. "Barack Obama showed his support to this government," Dabbagh said. "He came to listen to our views and the views of the prime minister. And the prime minister gave him his point of view about the presence of U.S. forces and ... what we want from the forces." "We had a very constructive discussion," Obama said upon leaving the meeting at the prime minister's private residence in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone. It is Obama's first trip to Iraq since he launched his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, and only his second since the war began, something repeatedly cited by Sen. John McCain's campaign as evidence of Obama's inexperience in foreign a ... |
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