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July 21st, 2008
Posted: 06:58 AM ET
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Barack Obama — the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate who made has ending the Iraq war a cornerstone of his historic run for office — huddled on Monday with Iraqi officials and coalition military commanders about the status of the grinding, bloody conflict — now in its sixth year. It is the Illinois senator’s second trip to Iraq, after a visit in 2006, and the latest leg of his overseas trip, which began in Kuwait and Afghanistan and will continue on to Jordan, Israel, the West Bank, Germany, France and England. Obama — who is accompanied by two key Senate colleagues — arrived Monday afternoon in the southern city of Basra, according to U.S. Embassy spokesman Armand Cucciniello. |
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