Will President Obama make good on his promise to end the Iraq War in 16 months from inauguration?

Quoted from http://www.barackobama.com/issues/iraq/

"Under the Obama-Biden plan, a residual force will remain in Iraq and in the region to conduct targeted counter-terrorism missions against al Qaeda in Iraq and to protect American diplomatic and civilian personnel."

According to the plan Obama has outlined, all troops will not be removed in 16 months.

Like carnacthemagnificent said, the settlement details are messed up. Obama's promise/plan was never to leave only training forces. We have troops in a ton of countries with missions going above just training. It's unrealistic to expect that a yes settlement could ever happen on the current terms; it just doesn't mesh with US policy past or present and presumably future.

Here is link to an article that gives more details - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=akdf3aroo0JM&refer=home

if you read the link destry has obama gave himself plenty of wiggle room. bush warned both canidates not to make promises they couldn't keep. obama has to or should i say is pose to honor the agreement just signed. if he decides heck with that agreement he breaks a contract signed by the USA. who wants to deal with a country that don't keep their word-breaks contracts.

TELL me what poly does not by circumstance, not have to BEND a few rules on the way ?

curios - i agree all "polys" bend the rules. obama's problem is the leftwing-anti war folks. if he don't have a MAJOR withdraw of troops in 16 months they will go ballistic.

curios - did you run dragonfang off tonight? i miss him :O(

NO chuckles is still around lets be honest we love him really!!!!?

the left wing anti war folks can go ballistic if they want, they are completely powerless and will vote for obama anyway in 2012. That's if they even exist.

i'd say the exsist. cindy sheehan ran aginest pelosi. their not powerful enough to beat obama in a campain, but they can cause him a headache. Buchanan ran againest bush sr with little chance of winning. it still caused bush sr to spend money..and to defend his right. the left could do the same to obama.

Huge participation from women and Sunni Arabs in Iraq elections
http://www.gulfnews.com/region/Iraq/10280783.html

Baghdad: Iraqis went to polls on Saturday to vote in the country's provincial elections, with a massive participation from Sunni Arabs and women

Nobody is going to challenge the Messiah, so deal.

Obama says Iraq pullout by Aug 2010
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090227/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_iraq_19