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Leaving Iraq: Debating Obama’s Withdrawal Timeline

Leaving Iraq: Debating Obama’s Withdrawal Timeline

World Politics Review is on a publishing hiatus through Aug. 30. But during this time, we'll be opening up some of our subscription-only content to non-subscribers. Today we feature an article that was part of our May 4, 2010, feature, "Leaving Iraq: What Comes Next?"

In "Debating Obama's Withdrawal Timeline," Gregg Carlstrom wrote that despite President Barack Obama's insistence on sticking to his withdrawal timetable in Iraq, the debate in Washington over the advisability of that course continued. Even today, as Operation Iraqi Freedom officially ends and the last combat troops leave Iraq, the debate goes on. Carlstrom's article provides useful background to today's events.

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