Getting your player ready...
WASHINGTON — Pentagon officials said Thursday that they will be ready on Inauguration Day with plans for a quick pullout of U.S. combat troops from Iraq if President- elect Barack Obama orders one, as he pledged to do during his campaign for the White House.
A 16-month timeline for withdrawal of battle forces from Iraq is among options being prepared, with an eye to Obama’s pledge to call the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the White House on his first day in office with instructions to close down a war he opposed.
