According to the New York Sun:
A key adviser to Senator Obama’s campaign is recommending in a confidential paper that America keep between 60,000 and 80,000 troops in Iraq as of late 2010, a plan at odds with the public pledge of the Illinois senator to withdraw combat forces from Iraq within 16 months of taking office.
(Via Instapundit.)
I can’t decide between two theories:
- This is deliberate misinformation, intended to moderate opposition to Obama from left-leaners who nevertheless want to win the war.
- This recommendation is for real, from an adviser that has gone off the reservation.
In the latter case, the adviser will probably be fired in short order. (Maybe in the former, too.)
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