Report: Despite Obama’s Vow, Combat Brigades Will Stay in Iraq

Thursday, March 26, 2009 :Nearly four weeks ago President Obama declared that U.S. combat operations would end in Iraq by August 2010. Despite Obama's pledge, new evidence has emerged that the U.S. plans to keep combat brigades in Iraq but they will operate under a different name. Investigative reporter Gareth Porter of Inter Press Service reveals some of the Brigade Combat Teams currently in Iraq will stay beyond August 2010 and will be renamed so-called “advisory and assistance brigades.”