time horizon

With a start date of June 30, 2009 no less!

From AP:

The negotiations over a withdrawal timetable follow long insistence by President Bush that setting any schedule for U.S. troops to leave would be dangerous.

The draft agreement with Iraq would link troop reductions to achievement of certain security milestones, although the details have not been made public.

Conventional Wisdom is that Iraqi government statements about a time horizon for our withdrawal from Iraq is a big plus for Obama and a big negative for McCain.

It might be true, but it does not have to be that way. Since the McCain campaign is seemingly unable to get out of their own way, I offer this simple three step plan for McCain to retake the political initiative on Iraq.

AP - President Bush has agreed to set a "general time horizon" for deeper U.S.