Make the pledge.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: TILTING at windmills - Troop withdrawal in Iraq - Brief article

I was not proud of Obama on another matter, however. I still have not recovered from hearing him, John Edwards, and Hillary Clinton refuse to pledge that they would have our troops out of Iraq by 2013.

Our troops are not the solution. They're part of the problem. Their presence protects the Green Zone, where Iraqi politicians can endlessly delay facing their duty to...