How long until . . .
The White House calls Maliki and tells him to retract the third statement by an Iraqi official which essentially concurs with Obama’s time frame for withdrawal?
Senator Barack Obama arrived in Baghdad on Monday, meeting with Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki and other senior Iraqi politicians, as an Iraqi spokesman said that the government was hopeful that foreign combat troops would withdraw in 2010.
Sixteen Months after taking office is about smack dab in the middle of 2010. Obama has always said he’d retain some flexibility in withdrawing troops based on conditions, and even the end of 2010 is a lot closer to Obama’s timeline for withdrawal Time Horizon for Aspirational Goal — several months — than it is to McCain’s non-timeline of 4-100 years.
Errrrrrrrr, best four of seven?