The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. August 3, 2010 Obama: US on Target to Withdraw Combat Troops from Iraq ------------------------------------------------------- President Obama said Monday that the US military is on target to withdraw all its combat troops from Iraq by the end of this month. Speaking before the Disabled American Veterans national convention in Atlanta, the President pledged the American presence in Iraq would soon transform from a primarily military to a diplomatic one. We’ll have more on Iraq later in the show. .