Week #5, Item #2: Differences in Fighting Terrorism

Senator Obama and Senator McCain both have plans for the Iraq War but also have different thoughts about it as well.

Senator Obama who wants to withdraw 152,00 U.S. troops by 2011 which will give a disadvantage to al-Qaida, who he thinks is the group that is in charge of recruiting people. He then hopes to keep a small U.S. force in Iraq, that is going to target al-Qaida, then send 20,000 American Troops to fight al-Qaida and the Taliban in Afghanistan, which is a war that democrats think we should and need to win.

Senator McCain wants to send more troops to Afghanistan as well, while withdrawing from Iraq Little by little, naming it a "Failed State." Senator McCain doesn't have a permanent strategy but making counter-terrorism on Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and the Israeli-Palestinian problem.

Both have considering ways of solutions to the Iraq War, as well as different expectations.

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