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President Obama's New 'Thank You' Video to Troops Comes Under Fire
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Aug. 27) -- Consider it a pre-emptive strike: Today, just four days before the official end of the U.S. combat mission in Iraq, President Barack Obama released on YouTube a short video of himself thanking the troops. Many presidents past have taken it upon themselves to thank the soldiers for their service using soaring rhetoric and lofty praise, and so in that sense, Obama is no different. But there remains one big problem with his expression of gratitude, at least so far as some right-leaning pundits see it: Not only could it be confused with a hawkish endorsement of the war effort he ...
Robert Gates to Retire in 2011: Three Dilemmas He Leaves Behind
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Aug. 16) -- Robert Gates, the U.S. defense secretary since 2006 and a key player in shaping the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, hopes to retire from his post sometime in 2011. That's the most immediately attention-grabbing detail revealed over at Foreign Policy, in a profile that recounts Gates' unlikely decision to stay on following the end of President George W. Bush's tenure in the White House. "I really didn't want to be asked," he told Foreign Policy. "[But] if I were asked, I would say, 'Yes.' In the middle of two wars, kids out there getting hurt and dying, there was no way that I was ...
Iraqi General: Army Not Ready for US Pullout
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(Aug. 12) -- On the same day the White House declared that the U.S. pullout plan from Iraq is "on target," Iraq's top army general took to a podium in Baghdad to announce that Iraqi forces are nowhere near being able to secure their country once American soldiers pull out next year. Lt. Gen. Babakir Zebari estimated Wednesday that it will be another 10 years before Iraq's military is able to cope without help from U.S. forces. "If I were asked about the withdrawal, I would say to politicians: The U.S. army must stay until the Iraqi army is fully ready in 2020," Zebari told reporters at a ...
Mission Accomplished? White House Touts Iraq, BP, Auto Industry Successes
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyPresident Barack Obama wasn't exactly making a tailhook landing on an aircraft carrier and unfurling a "Mission Accomplished" banner, but the White House took aggressive steps this week to show the American public that it has achieved some very hard-won successes. On three major issues -- U.S. military engagement in the Middle East, the BP oil spill disaster, and the American economy -- the administration has finally gained some positive momentum after what has felt like a protracted period of Nothing Good Ever Happens. For a White House and Democratic Congress badly in need of ammo in the ...
Gates Hints Afghan Pullout Could Start Before July 2011
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyDefense Secretary Robert Gates, in an unannounced visit to Afghanistan, raised the possibility Wednesday that some U.S. troops could begin leaving the country before the July 2011 deadline for withdrawal. Gates hedged his bets and did not elaborate. "We will begin that transition no later than July 2011, but the pace will depend also on conditions on the ground," he said, according to CNN. President Obama ordered 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan last year and coalition forces are in the midst of an offensive against Taliban fighters. The defense secretary toured training camps in ...
U.S. Combat Role in Iraq to End by 2011
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailySecretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari announced that the two countries have reached a preliminary agreement on a time line for U.S. combat troop withdrawal from Iraq. According to the agreement, all U.S. combat forces will be out of Iraq by the end of 2011, a little less than three and a half years from now. The role of U.S. forces inside Iraq will change as well. The agreement calls for U.S. troops to be stationed outside of Iraqi cities by June of next year, in a backup role for Iraqi forces, who will have complete control of security in all of the ...
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