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Obama stands by timetable for Iraq
Peter Nicholas and Robin Abcarian, 2008-07-16 (Wednesday), LA Times
The Democrat offers a plan for the U.S. to reorient its national security priorities. He maintains he hasn't changed positions.


WASHINGTON — As he prepares for an extensive trip overseas, Barack Obama delivered a sweeping foreign policy address Tuesday in which he sought to reassure his supporters that he remains committed to ending the war in Iraq.

Obama, who has been trying to counter perceptions that he has softened his position since he locked up the Democratic presidential nomination, said the nation's future hinged on reorienting its national security priorities so that Iraq is no longer the central thrust of the U.S. military.

"I will give our military a new mission on my first day in office: ending this war," the Illinois senator said, speaking to more than 600 people at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, against a backdrop of eight American flags. "Let me be clear: We must be as careful getting out of Iraq as we were careless getting in. We can safely redeploy our combat brigades at a pace that would remove them in 16 months."

As the Iraq war winds down, Obama said, he wants to see troops redirected to Afghanistan. He said the fight against the Taliban and Al Qaeda was a war "we have to win" and repeated his call for two more combat brigades in Afghanistan to counteract "deteriorating" conditions.

John McCain, Obama's rival, upped the ante Tuesday, pledging three more brigades as part of a broader plan to "turn around the war." It is the first time the Arizona senator has been specific, but he has previously called for an increase in NATO forces in Afghanistan.

The war in Afghanistan has recently turned more deadly than the one in Iraq. On Sunday, nine American soldiers were killed in a brazen insurgent attack on an outpost, the largest number of U.S. deaths in a single incident in Afghanistan since June 2005.

McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, chided Obama on Tuesday for outlining an Iraq strategy based on limited firsthand knowledge of the region. He questioned why Obama would lay out concrete plans before visiting the region and meeting with military officials, including Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq.

Obama is to leave soon on a trip that will take him to the Middle East and Europe. He is also expected to visit Iraq and possibly Afghanistan.

At a town hall meeting in Albuquerque, McCain said: "I note that he is speaking today about his plans for Iraq and Afghanistan before he has even left, before he has talked to Gen. Petraeus, before he has seen the progress in Iraq, and before he has set foot in Afghanistan for the first time. In my experience, fact-finding missions usually work best the other way around: First you assess the facts on the ground, then you present a new strategy."

Obama delivered his speech at a moment when there is some confusion about his position on the war. Of late, he has given more emphasis to caveats that might impede a withdrawal of U.S. forces than on his pledge to remove troops.

Obama insists his views are unchanged. But his subtle shift in tone has sparked concerns among supporters that he is revising his position as part of a broader post-primary move to the political center.

A recent Newsweek poll showed that 53% of voters believed that Obama had changed position on important issues "in order to gain political advantage."

In his 37-minute address, Obama said he was still determined to end the war according to his declared timetable. And he noted that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's recent "call for a timetable for the removal of U.S. forces presents a real opportunity."

Bringing troops home, Obama said, is essential to achieving other goals he has deemed important: defeating Al Qaeda, rebuilding alliances and weaning the U.S. off foreign oil.

"This war distracts us from every threat that we face and so many opportunities we could seize," he said. "This war diminishes our security, our standing in the world, our military, our economy and the resources that we need to confront the challenges of the 21st century. By any measure, our single-minded and open-ended focus on Iraq is not a sound strategy for keeping America safe."

Obama's speech had another purpose. As a relative newcomer to national politics, he wants to signal that he would be no pushover on the world stage. He has work to do on this front. An ABC News/Washington Post poll showed that 72% of Americans believe McCain would make a good commander in chief, but only 48% believe Obama would measure up.

Obama invoked a series of tough-minded foreign policy realists -- including the late George F. Kennan, architect of the Cold War containment strategy -- to reassure doubters that he would protect U.S. interests abroad.

Many of the points Obama made reflect the Washington establishment's foreign policy consensus. When he said the greatest threat to U.S. security lay in the tribal regions of Pakistan -- "where terrorists train" -- he was articulating a widely accepted doctrine. Adm. Michael G. Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has said much the same thing.

"As president, I will pursue a tough, smart and principled national security strategy -- one that recognizes that we have interests not just in Baghdad, but in Kandahar and Karachi, in Tokyo and London, in Beijing and Berlin," Obama said.

Advisors to Obama said he was talking more about national security and foreign policy as part of the groundwork for his upcoming trip. It will be Obama's first overseas venture since he entered the presidential race in February 2007. He is to make stops in Jordan, Israel, the Palestinian territory of the West Bank, Germany, France and Britain.

Timing and details of the Iraq visit have been kept secret for safety reasons.

President Bush, asked at a news conference Tuesday about Obama's trip, advised him to "listen carefully" to Petraeus and Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq.

"There's a temptation to let the politics at home get in the way with the considered judgment of the commanders," he said. "That's why I strongly reject an artificial timeline of withdrawal."

McCain, too, said a hard 16-month timetable invited failure. He predicted that pulling out troops on that schedule would have devastating consequences for the conflict in Afghanistan.

Aboard his campaign bus, he told reporters: "If we fail in Iraq, it would have meant enormous encouragement to the Taliban in Afghanistan and other anti-American elements and jihadists throughout the region.

"In life and warfare, failure breeds failure, success breeds success. That is just a lesson of history, and Sen. Obama obviously does not understand those lessons."

Times staff writers Paul Richter and Michael Finnegan contributed to this report.

Copyright 2008 Los Angeles Times

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2007-06-13John Perkins on "The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global Corruption"
2007-06-12Current Problems in American Foreign Policy - A Talk Given to the Mount Holyoke Alumnae
2007-07-29Al-Qaida: the unwanted guests
2007-08-02This Russian risk could yet dwarf our blunder on Iraq
2007-08-05The End of Cowboy Diplomacy
2007-07-17Why Bush Will Be A Winner
2007-07-27Imagining Defeat -- What happen if America retreats from Iraq?
2007-07-27To Check Syria, U.S. Explores Bond With Muslim Brothers
2007-08-13Escalation by the Numbers -- What "Progress" in Iraq Really Means
2007-08-13The Limits of Multiculturalism - The Dutch Labor Party and Islam
2007-08-15President Delivers State of the Union Address
2007-08-20A False Choice in Pakistan
2006-12-16Revamping Us Foreign Policy, Part 1 - Full speed ahead, with menace
2007-01-11Transcript of President Bush’s Address to Nation on U.S. Policy in Iraq
2006-12-20Text of Gore speech
2007-01-23Crusading in the Arc of Instability - George Bush's Crusading Scorecard (2001-2007)
2007-01-18Annotate This: Escalation in Iraq
2007-02-20Transformational Diplomacy
2007-02-20Russia's hudna with the Muslim world
2007-02-18After Neoconservatism
2007-02-26Which Will It Be America, Empire or Democracy?
2007-02-26Legal Issues in the War on Terrorism
2007-03-01ARAB COUNTRIES - GENERAL ANALYSIS
2007-04-04Breaking Ranks -- What turned Brent Scowcroft against the Bush Administration?
2007-04-05"Promoting Democracy: A Progressive Foreign Policy Agenda".
2007-03-31Iran crisis is Blair's true legacy
2007-03-05Not in our name
2007-03-10AN INTERVIEW WITH QUEEN NOOR
2006-09-09Foreign policy year in review
2006-05-01Political Islam -- Forty shades of green
2006-10-27What Went Wrong in Iraq
2006-10-29Taking the Fight to the Taliban
2006-09-26We Are Not Going to Evacuate. We Are Not Going Anywhere
2006-09-25Richard Clarke 9/11 prepared testimony
2006-11-06SCHRÖDER ON IRAQ - "The Mother of all Misjudgements"
2006-11-07TURKEY AND THE AZERBAIJANI OIL CONTROVERSIES: LOOKING FOR A LIGHT AT THE END OF THE PIPELINE
2008-08-18Lost in the System -- What has happened to Bush’s secret prisoners?
2008-09-12Iran Must Get Ready to Repel a Nuclear Attack
2008-09-12"End States Who Sponsor Terrorism"
2008-09-12The Return of U. S. Death Squads
2008-08-30Bush's Deal With Iraq: A Time Bomb Set to Explode
2008-08-30A Choice of War Criminals
2008-09-07Terrorized by 'War on Terror'
2008-07-27Bush Will Urge Gilani to Pursue Militants on Border
2008-07-27America, Iran and faulty intelligence: Bernd Debusmann
2008-07-29Does the Constitution Require the Impeachment of Bush and Cheney?
2008-07-28Reflections on Leadership
2008-07-22CSIS-SCHIEFFER DIALOGUE: OPENING STEPS FOR A DIPLOMATIC PATH BETWEEN THE U.S. AND IRAN
2008-07-27Obama on the Brink
2008-07-15A war waiting to happen
2008-07-16By talking to Iran, U.S. budges in nuclear impasse
2008-08-06Extradition Delayed Is Justice Denied
2008-08-06Douglas Feith's War and Decision: Life in a Neocon's Parallel Universe
2008-08-07Brzezinski’s bunker
2008-08-03Attacking Iran? It will not happen
2008-07-09Who's Planning Our Next War?
2008-07-11HR 362 and the Alarming Escalation of Hostility Towards Iran
2008-07-03'Countdown with Keith Olbermann' for Thursday, May 29
2008-06-25Shackled Warrior -- Israel in bondage -- An NRO Q&A
2008-06-15President Bush Outlines Iraqi Threat
2008-05-19Walker's World: Bush with the pharaohs
2008-05-19Bush’s Speech Prods Middle East Leaders
2008-05-26The Failed States Index 2007
2008-05-31The Palestinian Refugee Issue: Rhetoric vs. Reality
2008-05-31The U.S. National Intelligence Estimate on Iran and Its Aftermath: A Roundtable of Israeli Experts
2008-05-31Israel at Sixty: Asymmetry, Vulnerability, and the Search for Security
2008-06-01Why NATO Troops Can't Deliver Peace in Afghanistan
2008-06-11Analysis: Growing talk of Iran attack
2008-06-12Osama bin Laden and the U.S. economy: Bernd Debusmann