Obama to speak in N.C.

Submitted by ryanteaguebeckwith on February 27, 2009 - 9:06am.
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President Obama will arrive in North Carolina this morning.

Air Force One will land at Cherry Point Marine Corps Air Station near Havelock, N.C., at 11:10 a.m.

Obama is scheduled to speak at the nearby Camp Lejeune Marine base a half-hour later.

He is expected to announce that a substantial number of the roughly 100,000 U.S. combat troops scheduled to leave Iraq by Aug. 31, 2010, will instead stay through the end of the year.

That suggests the withdrawal of U.S. troops may be more backloaded than previously expected, with more troops leaving later. 

Dome will be live-blogging from the event. 

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