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Obama's Ratings on Iraq Up After Speech, but Most Believe War Will Go On
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyPresident Obama's poll numbers for his handling of Iraq have gone up following his Oval Office speech declaring the U.S. combat mission at an end, but an overwhelming majority of Americans believe the war wasn't worth fighting and the conflict in that country is not over, according to a CNN/Opinion Research poll conducted Sept. 1-2. (Story, poll). Fifty-seven percent said they approved of Obama's handling of Iraq while 41 percent disapproved compared to mid-July when the public was split at 49 percent each. Eighty percent believe the war is not over. The question is not clear as to whether ...
Is This the Real Reason US Troops Can Leave Iraq?
By Paul Kix - AOL News(Aug. 31) -- President Barack Obama will address the nation tonight to mark what his administration is calling the end of combat operations in Iraq. And already scholars are revisiting how a war once compared to the Vietnam quagmire reached this point of tentative success. Ali Al-Saadi, AFP / Getty Images An Iraqi man checks the authenticity of a 25,000-dinar bill before using it in a shop in central Baghdad. The most intriguing theory comes from Peter Berck and Jonathan Lipow, academics at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Defense Resource Management Institute, respectively. ...
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