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ATLANTA - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama drew loud cheers from an estimated crowd of 20,000 on Saturday when he said he wants to end U.S. involvement in Iraq.

"It's time for us to start bringing our combat troops home," he told supporters, some of whom had been waiting for him for three hours on the Georgia Tech campus. "There is no military solution to the problems we have in Iraq right now."

He added that all other challenges facing the country - including pollution, energy dependency, a sluggish economy and the struggles of the middle class - can't be addressed unless "this senseless war in Iraq" is ended.

The freshman senator from Illinois said he entered politics because he wanted to do something "to express the same spirit" as the civil rights movement.

"We see a politics that seems more of a business than a mission," he said, pledging he would work to unify the country behind the desire for change.

Obama mentioned a few other goals: universal health care and more money for preventive medicine; raising the minimum wage and allowing more unions to organize; paying teachers more; and increasing automotive fuel efficiency.

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