NY POST: Obama Has Tried to Stop Withdrawal of Troops from Iraq

In a blockbuster flip flop, the New York Post reports that Obama has this summer been trying to convince Iraqi government officials, and top US Generals not to allow any withdrawal of troops until after the new administration is in place. One of Obama's main campaigning tenets has been the illegality of the Iraq war and the need to bring home troops immediately. But privately, he wants them to stay.

Will he be like LBJ (President Lyndon Baines Johnson for you X-geners) who campaigned against the Viet Nam war and Goldwater's hawkish stance while at the same time planning to increase US involvement? (Johnson increased US soldiers in Viet Nam from 16,000 at Kennedy's death to 550,000 in his last year as president.)

See the full N.Y. Post story here.