Out of Iraq?
Not so fast …
by
Justin Raimondo
by Justin Raimondo
 President
Obama's campaign promise to get us out of Iraq in sixteen
months gave him the electoral heft to oust "frontrunner"
Hillary and catapulted him into the White House. Yet, now that the
public's attention is fixed on our swiftly
deteriorating economic plight, that promise is being quietly
– but definitely – broken. I've been predicting that for god-knows-how-many
weeks, but now we have substantial evidence that my hunch presaged
an emerging reality. Eli Lake reports
in the Washington Times:
 "As
President Obama weighs options for withdrawing U.S. combat troops
from Iraq, the country's military is purchasing American helicopters,
cargo planes and tanks equipment that typically requires a prolonged
U.S. presence for maintenance and training.
"Lt.
Gen. Frank Helmick, who is in charge of training Iraq's security
services and military, told The Washington Times that some of the
ordered equipment would not be delivered until 2012, even though
a new status of forces agreement (SOFA) requires all U.S. troops
to exit the country by [the end of] 2011."
To Gen. Helmick,
this looks like the Iraqis are seeking "a long-term strategic
relationship with the United States."
Translation:
We ain't leaving!
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the rest of the article
February
16, 2009
Justin
Raimondo [send him mail]
is editorial director of Antiwar.com
and is the author of An
Enemy of the State: The Life of Murray N. Rothbard and Reclaiming
the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement.
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