>>>If it passes completely, then I don't know how Obama will be able to go back on the agreement:
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>>>http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081116/D94G86LG0.html
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>>Amazing that they managed to make a deal before January, isn't it? ;-)
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>>Of course Obama will be able to "go back" on it, though. It's not necessarily up to Bush, with two months left in office, to commit to what we will be doing three years from now.
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>The U.S. and Iraq has to come to an arrangment because the UN mandate expires Dec 31st.

To be honest I didn't know the UN had anything to do with it. That actually puzzles me. So we invaded without UN authorization, and now there is a UN mandate and a deadline to meet? Somehow I sense the UN angle is just cover for the Bush administration trying to extend its Iraqi policy past the end of its term. They haven't given a rat's patootie about the UN before now.