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p style=text-align: left;img src=http://api.ning.com/files/uL4eYbO55s8TQZaHKuTYc7jSednswgWDNP8iUJ5h3Zz-A7wVqAKK2P1aIIv3PlFZaiIDk3F87ViHEVFZhWmmsxKB0vB1e3 Xm/obama2.jpg alt= width=500 height=357//pbr /According to ibossip.com/i,President bObama/b committed to pull out nearly all combat troops by bAugust 2010/b. He listened to the recommendations of the military and then roughly split the difference between what the generals requested and what he promised during the campaign.br /br /bObama/b not only wants to get the troops out of bIraq/b, he needs to in order to meet two other commitments: lowering the federal deficit and transferring b17,000/b more troops to bAfghanistan/b. In six years at war, America has spent more than b$700 billion/b in bIraq/b. It costs nearly b$400,000/b per year to keep each soldier there. But the president doesn’t want to be accused of blowing the gains made since the surge in troops that former President bGeorge W. Bush/b ordered and, more significantly, the successful counter-insurgency strategy of Gen. bDavid Petraeus/b.br /br /Most of the b142,000/b troops there now will leave between bDecember and August 2010./b Up to b50,000/b personnel will remain, as trainers, advisers and combat troops doing anti-terrorist work — an unclear mission.