That was just a case of Obama saying one thing publicly and having his advisors tell world leaders something different privately.
Like when he told steel workers he was pulling us out of NAFTA and telling Canada not to worry, he won't. Same with Iraq--while he was telling primary crowds we're out of there, his foreign policy advisor was telling England not to worry. In the general election he said he'd follow a time table determined by facts on the ground--a focus-group-tested version of the Bush plan. Iraqis seem to think that's the Iraq claim he actually meant.
I agree with Joe Biden that Iraq should spin off Kurdistan to be its own country. Who cares what Turkey says, they want to be in the EU so they will have to suck it up. It will be good for them anyway, as all the Kurds that they hate so much will leave Turkey. The Kurds are our only cultural, and thus true, allies in the region, and we should treat them better. IMO
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