Reply #6: Exactly. Starting bring troops home. But leaves some combat trrops in Iraq

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Unless he changed something since Iowa, his position and that of Clinton are essentially the same. They each foresee "anti-terrorist" and other combat operations continuing in Iraq for some indefinite time (years) if they become President.

Edwards would remove all except for a somewhat-large Marine embassy guard group. Richardson is essentially the same as Edwards, although he has tried to gain an advantage by saying that he would remove "all troops" but defining that to not include the Marine embassy guards who might number up to 1000.

Obama and Clinton each use this rhetoric to mask their actual positions. "begin", "initiate"