A key adviser to Senator Obama?s campaign is suggesting in a private paper that America keep between 60,000 and 80,000 troops in Iraq as of late 2010, a plan at odds with the public pledge by Obama to withdraw combat forces from Iraq within 16 months. The paper, obtained by The New York Sun, was written by Colin Kahl for the Center for a New American Security entitled, ?Stay on Success: A Policy of Conditional Engagement.?

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A key adviser to Senator Obama?s campaign is suggesting in a private paper that America keep between 60,000 and 80,000 troops in Iraq as of late 2010, a plan at odds with the public pledge by Obama to withdraw combat forces from Iraq within 16 months. The paper, obtained by The New York Sun, was written by Colin Kahl for the Center for a New American Security entitled, ?Stay on Success: A Policy of Conditional Engagement.?

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Frank J. Ranelli is an independent scholar, skeptic and critic, author and essayist. His erudite and iconoclastic style of provocative writing has been extensively published in a variety of news outlets and across the Internet. These include the Naples Daily News, The Online Journal, Information Clearing House, Alternet, The Smirking Chimp, and the former progressive journal of thought, Wicked Philosophy.