The New York Times: The US Defence Secretary Robert Gates explains the strategic reason for keeping between thirty five and fifty thousand troops in country, as this will help with the Bush/Obama plan to get the US out of Iraq by 2011. I will bet that the Obama Administration will do a deal with Iraq to keep forces in country after 2011, just a feeling, Obama cant afford in an election year for Iraq to blow up as it did in 2006/07. As 2012 is a Presidential Election year, Obama does not want to run with civic strife in Iraq, and the need the send the troops back in or worse that Iran moves in to Iraq to place pressure on the USA to accept a Nuclear Armed Iran. Iraq one way or another will become Obama's War, he is trying to be Richard Nixon, getting out at least political cost, Nixon in Vietnam, Obama in Iraq. In 2010 we have the Congressional Mid Term Elections, Obama will have good news coverage of the troops coming home as heroes but the War will not be over, there will still be fifty thousand troops in Iraq. Folks this story is not over by a long way.
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