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Obama, McCain Allergic to New Iraq Reality

You say you expected more rhetoric than reality from Senators Obama and McCain yesterday in their speeches on Iraq and Afghanistan? Well, that's certainly what you got.

What I find nonetheless amazing is how they, and the pundits, have taken such little notice of the dramatic change in the political landscape occasioned by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's bombshell on July 7 -- his insistence on a "timetable" for withdrawal of US troops before any accord is reached on their staying past the turn of the year.