Obama: U.S. Must Leave Iraq if No Reform [View All]

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Obama: U.S. Must Leave Iraq if No Reform
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Mar 10, 6:22 PM (ET)

By HENRY C. JACKSON

DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) - Illinois Sen. Barack Obama on Saturday said the U.S. will have to abandon it's efforts in Iraq, regardless of the costs, if serious reforms are not made by the Iraqi government.

"In the absence of those conditions we're just throwing money away," Obama said during a campaign stop in Dubuque.

"We have to be honest that, in the absence of these changes, if these changes aren't made, there is not much we can do," to help the Iraqi people, he added later.


Democratic presidential hopeful U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks during a town hall meeting, Saturday, March 10, 2007, in Dubuque, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

More than 2,000 people attended a town hall meeting to hear Obama on the first of two days of campaigning in Iowa that was to include stops in five eastern Iowa cities.

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