Obama to start planning a gradual withdrawal from Iraq

The U.S. president-elect Barack Obama yesterday, Sunday, his intention to organize a gradual withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq after his arrival at the White House on January 20 next

This came in an interview broadcast Sunday night Network (CNN. Me. SA) newsletter. Obama said, "I said during the campaign and I stick to this position, I was calling, immediately after receipt of my duties, under the chairmanship of Staff and national security officials and we will plan the withdrawal of our troops." Obama plans to end the U.S. presence in Iraq, which resulted in more than four thousand dead American soldiers in order to secure the soldiers and balance of the war in Afghanistan, which Obama made it a priority in its foreign policy. The situation has improved markedly in Iraq a year ago, wants to Obama, who opposed the invasion to withdraw the bulk of U.S. troops within 16 months until the summer of 2010, to remain cost forces against terrorists. The period set by Obama shorter than the period specified in the agreement of the Iraqi American withdrawal, which was approved by the Iraqis Sunday