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Obama in Iraq to boost foreign policy credentials

Source: Lateline
Published: Monday, July 21, 2008 5:25 AEST
Expires: Monday, August 18, 2008 5:25 AEST

US presidential hopeful Barack Obama has arrived in Iraq after holding talks with Afghan president Hamid Karzai in Kabul. So far his central theme has been to urge the Bush administration to pull American troops out of Iraq and make Afghanistan the focus of the 'war on terror'.

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Tags: defence-and-national-security, world-politics, unrest-conflict-and-war, terrorism, iraq, united-states