Why Gloom Looms Over Obama's Iraq Address -- Time Magazine
When he speaks from the Oval Office tonight, Barack Obama will deliver one of the hardest addresses of his presidency. Yes, he's had tough ones before — about Afghanistan, health care and the BP oil spill. But tonight's speech marking the end of the U.S. combat mission in Iraq confronts Obama with a subject that defies easy explanation, a policy that allows little self-congratulation and a political climate in which Iraq's place is not clear.
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