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Barack Obama: We will have our combat troops out of Iraq by August of next year and all of our troops out of Iraq by 2011.

On the recordOctober 19, 2009
We will have our combat troops out of Iraq by August of next year and all of our troops out of Iraq by 2011.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks Following a Meeting With Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki of Iraq

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