It is bazzare that Maliki's request for the withdraw of American troops on "roughly" the Obama time table is being treated as a vindication of Obama's policy. The simple fact is that Obama has been calling for a withdraw in 14-16 months for over a year. If we had followed his advice Iraq would be in chaos. That his proposal is now thinkable if not entirely advisable is a credit to the success of the policy he denounced (the surge). Allowing him to take credit for the success of a policy he fought against is just sickening, and exactly what our news media is going to do. Advocating pulling our armies out of Europe in 1945 is not a vindication of those that wanted to pull them out in 1944.
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