WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s promise to end the war in Iraq will be on the agenda Wednesday when the new commander in chief meets with top national security aides and senior commanders, officials said. Obama was summoning his holdover defense secretary, Robert Gates, and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, to the White House, along with other members of his National Security Council, to discuss a way ahead in the war, according to two senior military officers.—-Contact The Daily Reveille’s news staff at [email protected]
Obama to meet war council on first full day
By The Associated Press
January 21, 2009