Obama said that if elected he would withdraw most US troops from Iraq within 16 months, and redeploy some of them to Afghanistan, because that was the central front in the war on terror.

• 奥巴马称如果他当选，在16个月内他会把大部分的美国军队从伊拉克撤回，并且重新将部分的撤回军队部署在阿富汗，因为阿富汗是恐怖战争的核心前线。