Just a Reminder About The Top Three Candidates and Getting the Troops Out of Iraq

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Dems can't make guarantee on Iraq troops

By BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Writer Wed Sep 26, 9:46 PM ET

HANOVER, N.H. - The three leading Democratic presidential hopefuls conceded Wednesday night they could not guarantee that all U.S. combat troops would be gone from Iraq by 2013, the end of the next president's first term in office.

"I think it's hard to project four years from now," said Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois in the opening moments of a campaign debate in the nation's first primary state.

"It is very difficult to know what we're going to be inheriting," added Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York.

"I cannot make that commitment," said former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina.

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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=3657261

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1. Edwards Calls for Quick Pullout of Troops Training Iraqi Forces -NYTimes

~snip~John Edwards says that if elected president he would withdraw the American troops who are training the Iraqi army and police as part of a broader plan to remove virtually all American forces within 10 months.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/02/us/politics/02edwards.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

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2. Wow. So Edwards has pledged to remove combat troops and troops that are

training the Iraqi army? That leaves troops that are guarding the embassy and bases, I suppose.