Iraq’s Future Still A Concern for Obama
Journalist: Geoff Dyer
Original Post: Iraq’s future still a concern for Obama
Type: News Article
December 11, 2011 — The words “Mission Accomplished” will not be spoken but Barack Obama, the US president, will take something of a victory lap this week as the war in Iraqwinds to a close.
As well as meeting Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister, Mr Obama has a full schedule of military related events which will allow him to tell a country tired of war that the troops in Iraq are coming home, if not quite by Christmas, then by the end of the year.
“We’ve got a whole bunch of them who are going to be coming back this month because we’ve ended the war in Iraq, as I promised,” Mr Obama told an Indiana television channel at the weekend. The president called the Iraq conflict a “dumb war” when he was a little-known state senator.
Read the full story on the Financial Times' website.
Related:Topic(s): Iraq
Project(s): Diplomacy and Development, Iraq, Middle East, Military Personnel, U.S. Military Forces and Operations, U.S. National Security and Defense Policy
