Morning Update: Obama on Iraq Withdrawal
Barack Obama said his first act as president (CNN) would be to ask his Joint Chiefs to put together a plan to “begin withdrawing” from Iraq. He added that the withdrawal would in all likelihood be “messy” and that “people who say we’ll just pull them out are irresponsible.”
Obama will present his plan to combat terrorism in a speech tomorrow in Washington.
In an interview with “Family Security Matters,” Republican candidate Tom Tancredo said putting “boots on the ground” in Iran would be “a disaster and an embroilment in the conflict that I’m not sure we can be successful in.” Tancredo said the U.S. should work with the large Sunni, Kurdish, and Christian populations in the country to bring about a “modification of their government” without sending in troops.
