Obama Softens on Iraq Withdrawal Timeline


	Obama Softens on Iraq Withdrawal Timeline

jatfla

7-3-2008 4:23 PM

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jatfla says:

So the naive Senator is learning that things aren't as easy to "change" as his rhetoric once suggested. Funny how a little more information about a subject and a closer step to the Presidency can make a person realize that things are different in the real world verses the campaign world.

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