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Obama committed to his timetable for ending war in Iraq
Sep 7 2008, Madhuri Katti

On Tuesday, Barrack Obama was campaigning at the Ronald Reagan Building and International World Centre when he said,

I will give our military a new mission on my first day in office: ending this war. Let me be clear: We must be careful as getting...

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