How can Pres. Obama keep his promise to 'maintain stability' in Iraq

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. . . and "ensure that you don't see any resurgence of terrorism in Iraq that could threaten our interests,” as the President-elect promised on MTP today?

Mr. Obama reaffirmed his promise to move “as quickly as we can do to maintain stability in Iraq, maintain the safety of U.S. troops, to provide a mechanism so that Iraq can start taking more responsibility as a sovereign responsibility for its own safety and security, ensuring that you don't see any resurgence of terrorism in Iraq that could threaten our interests.”


What, exactly, are our 'interests' in Iraq which are 'threatened?' Is the preservation of the Maliki government, at all costs, behind the protection of our military really in our 'interest?'

If we keep framing an exit from Iraq in terms of the security of the privileged regime there we'll never get the clean break from there that most of us expect. The estimates from the military man Obama has shadowing Defense Chief Gates says that the number remaining could be as many as 50,000 troops.

How many here are satisfied with the prospect of a significant contingent of our soldiers remaining in Iraq to fight "terrorism" and "preserve stability?"

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1. 'our interests'...

oil

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3. protecting our interests

. . . the mindset that got us into war


Obama: "I don't want to just end the war, but I want to end the mindset that got us into war in the first place."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4331100

[atimetocome]

2. we need to get out of Iraq==ALL of the soldiers.

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10. did you mean for that to be a =/= ?

[xen]

4. EASY

Solution,Have the west stop occupying and leave Arabs sacred lands alone,and have Israel stop stealing and occupying Palestinians land.

But it Wont happen though,because we want their oil,so that means our interest will be threatened forever.
Perpetual war and strife for eternity will be the order of the day,until we all go down in a Nuclear meltdown ,and this will be driven mainly by God and religion,it is getting nearer to-wards that end,Us Against them.
US,we are the Good guys,innocent,heavenly and divine,who never bother anyone,except to defend ourselves,wherever Oil is,coincidentally,hehehe,plus God is on our side,and them,Those Evil doers,Barbarians and Satan's children who threatens the civilized world and western civilization for no other reason except that they are EVil Doers and haters,and they have our God given oil.

God Bless America only,Not them or anyone else :evilgrin:

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5. Have a big pow-wow..

with all the major players...China, Russia, Britain, France, the Dutch..and then all the countries along the pipeline..first pass the peace pipe, then divvy up the oil, and pay the resource rich countries a fair price, as well as those along the pipeline route. Problem solved.

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6. are the Kurds 'major players?'

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9. The Iraqi Kurdistan is

already a 'major' player, no? They were the first to sign oil contracts, independent of the Iraqi government.
http://www.krg.org/

[Titus Andronicus]

7. With Gates and Shinseki, it's clear that he will take his time

and get it right.

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8. Gates certainly will want to take his time

and Gen. Shinseki will certainly get it right as VA Chief.