Status-of-Forces Agreement Seen As Benefit for Obama
Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me. › November 24, 2008
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Iraq's prime minister just did Barack Obama a huge favor.
By finally approving a status-of-forces agreement, or SOFA, that requires a U.S. pullout by the end of 2011, Nouri al-Maliki has saved our president-elect from facing a huge Iraq crisis from the day he's sworn in. (The accord still must be approved by the Iraqi parliament on Monday, but that now seems very likely.)See the full content of this document
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Status-of-Forces Agreement Seen As Benefit for Obama
And by accepting a fixed withdrawal deadline (after rejecting this concept for years), President Bush also has made Obama's life easier. Now no one can blame Obama for the fixed 2011 deadline....
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