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Hefty support for Obama's Iraq withdrawal: poll
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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Apr 07, 2009 11:58am |
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| News Date | Tuesday, April 7, 2009 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | 1 hour ago
WASHINGTON (AFP) — More than two-thirds of Americans support President Barack Obama's plans to withdraw most US troops from Iraq, a new poll said Tuesday as Obama paid a surprise visit to Baghdad.
A total of 69 percent backed the withdrawal plan while 30 percent were opposed, the poll by CNN and Opinion Research Corp. said.
In February Obama announced he was pulling most combat troops out of Iraq by August 2010, although a force of up to 50,000 will remain until the end of the following year. The current deployment is more than 140,000.
A military accord signed last November between Baghdad and Washington requires all US forces to leave the country by the end of 2011.
The poll was released as Obama arrived for his first visit to Iraq since taking office in January, amid a new upturn in deadly attacks blamed by the Iraqi government and US military on the Al-Qaeda terror network. |
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