Obama keeps U.S. troop withdrawal plan after Iraq poll

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6261YI20100307

Obama's emphasis on Iraqi security forces' success supports his argument that U.S. troops can leave the country on time, freeing the president to put his foreign policy focus more squarely on the war in Afghanistan. Scores of mortar rounds, rockets and roadside bombs exploded near polling stations across Iraq, killing 38 people, in an apparent effort to scare voters participating in the election for Iraq's second full-term parliament since the 2003 U.S. invasion.