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News Analysis: Campaign Promises on Ending the War in Iraq Now Muted by Reality

Barack Obama, who vowed in the campaign to ?end the war? in Iraq, is making clear that tens of thousands of troops will stay there.<br/><br/><span class="advertisement"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/us/politics/04military.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=eb54a725f4ed49bda4c939b004c9c010&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/us/politics/04military.html" border="0"/></a> </span>