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Jeremy Scahill on Obama’s Iraq Withdrawal That Isn’t (Video)
Posted: 3 August 2010 by Little Alex in International AffairsTags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, Afghanistan War Diary, Amy Goodman, Baghdad, Blackwater, Bush Administration, corporatism, covert operations, Dyncorp, economic sanctions, EPPs, fascism, Gareth Porter, Hillary Clinton, Horn of Africa, human rights, imperialism, Iraq War, Iraq withdrawal, Jeremy Scahill, JPEL, JSOC, Julian Assange, libertarian, Middle East, military industrial complex, Newspeak, Nuri al-Maliki, Obama, Obama Administration, oil, Saddam Hussein, SOF, SOFA, Special Operations Forces, State Department, Status of Forces Agreement, Take Force 714, Task Force 373, TF 373, TF 714, Triple Canopy, US, US military, War, War on Terror, war spending, Wikileaks, Xe
With 70,000 U.S. troops in Iraq, President Obama yesterday dropped his 2009 pledge to remove all combat troops before September, extending the target date 15 months, Gareth Porter reported today at Inter Press Services. The drawdown is intended by the Administration to leave 50,000 ‘residual troops’ indefinitely, but investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill notes the so-called “withdrawal” is a replacement of combat troops with ‘private’ mercenary firms. Earlier today, he spoke with Amy Goodman at Democracy Now! (11:48):