Obama backs troop withdraw from Iraq.
Democratic presidential candidate, Barak Obama, called for the withdraw U.S. combat soldiers at a rate of one brigade per month, ending combat operations by the end of 2008. The statements come after the Gen. David Petraeus, the senior commander in Iraq, told the U.S. Congress that he recommended reducing U.S. combat troops to pre-surge levels by next summer, a move Mr. Bush is expected to endorse in a speech tomorrow.