Word: withdrawals
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Senior U.S. military officials will likely advise Barack Obama to adjust his campaign pledge to withdraw all U.S. combat troops from Iraq by mid-2010. While promising a 16-month timetable for getting all U.S. fighting forces out, Obama repeatedly insisted on what he calls a "responsible" withdrawal. Pulling nearly all U.S. troops and equipment out of Iraq in 16 months is "physically impossible," says a top officer involved in briefing the President-elect on U.S. operations in Iraq. That schedule would create a bottleneck of equipment and troops in the south of Iraq and Kuwait where brigades repair, clean...
...members do not meet to discuss a case and do not discuss a case even in the meeting until the student has had a chance to appear and present his or her side of the story. To say that the decision is already made and that a requirement to withdraw is all but automatic is wrong. This can be seen in the statistics of Board decisions. In the last academic year there were a total of 81 disciplinary cases before the Board. Of those cases, 23, only 28 percent, ended in the student being required to withdraw. Given that most...
...Jing, a 32-year-old single mother who works at a state-owned oil company, also applauded Obama's victory. "I remember Obama's promise to withdraw the troops from Iraq, and I think it's about time," she said. "Why? It's all about the economy. Without the war, I'm hoping the economic situation will improve, and believe it or not, we are not beyond the influence of the U.S. economy. We have not been paid for four months...
Stevens, Ted •refusal of to withdraw from Senate race after being found guilty of seven felony corruption charges...
...still pull this thing out - is not completely unreasonable. It is not just that McCain has stared long odds in the face before and triumphed, as he did when his campaign collapsed in the summer of 2007, financially broke and in disarray. Back then, trusted friends advised him to withdraw rather than suffer a humiliating defeat. Even some of his closest associates were ready to give up, and it fell to McCain to tell them to quit feeling sorry for themselves, to lecture them about what it means to keep fighting for what you believe in. Of course...