BARACK OBAMA: FIGHTING FOREIGN POLICY FOR THE LATINO COMMUNITY – PART 1
March 10, 2010 | 
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Improve Relations with Latin America: It is time for the United States to reclaim and renew its historic roleas a leader in the hemisphere. As president, Barack Obama will reaffirm the importance of our relationship withthe more than 500 million people who live in Latin America. Obama wants to open a new chapter ofcooperation and partnership with our neighbors to promote democracy with social and economic developmentfor the benefit of all who live in the Americas.
Bring the War in Iraq to a Responsible End: More than 128,000 Latino servicemen and women have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001. As of March 24, 2007, 347 Latino American troops have died and more than 1,500 have been wounded in Iraq. Barack Obama opposed the war in Iraq from the beginning. In 2002, as the conventional thinking in Washington lined up for war, Obama had the judgment and courage to speak out against the war. He said the war would lead to “an occupation of undetermined length, with undetermined costs and undetermined consequences.” In January 2007, Obama introduced legislation to responsibly end the war in Iraq, with a phased withdrawal of troops engaged in combat operations. Today, Obama has a plan to immediately begin to pull out troops engaged in combat operations at a pace of one or two brigades every month, to be completed by the end of 2008. He would call for a new constitutional convention in
Iraq, convened with the United Nations, which would not adjourn until Iraq’s leaders reach a new accord on reconciliation. He would use presidential leadership to surge our diplomacy with all of the nations of the region on behalf of a new regional security compact. And he would take immediate steps to confront the humanitarian disaster in Iraq.
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