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Obama: Iraq now needs a political solution (AP)

July 22nd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized

Newly-graduated Iraqi police officers hold national flags during their graduation ceremony in Baghdad on July 20. Democratic White House candidate Barack Obama is in Iraq on a fact-finding tour, days after confirming plans to withdraw US troops from Iraq in 16 months if he takes office next year.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AP - Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama declined Tuesday to rate the Bush administration's troop surge in Iraq a success despite a reduction in violence, and expressed understanding of Gen. David Petraeus' opposition to a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops.


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