Whether the next president is a Democrat or a Republican, it looks like the U.S. troop presence in Iraq is permanent until further notice. In the Democratic presidential debate last night, none of the top three hopefuls would commit to withdrawing all U.S. combat troops from Iraq by the end of the next presidential term in 2013 (which would be the 10th anniversary of the invasion).
“I cannot make that commitment,” said former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina.
“It is very difficult to know what we're going to be inheriting,” Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York said.
“I think it's hard to project four years from now,” Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois said.
Anti-war voters expecting a Democrat in the White House to get the U.S. completely out of Iraq are likely to be as disappointed as the Democratic Congress has turned out to be for them.
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