His problem is that his change in emphasis to flexibility from a hard-nosed end-the-war stance -- including his recent position that withdrawing combat troops could take as long as 16 months -- will now be heard loud and clear by an anti-war camp that may have ignored it before.
This isn't a recent position and I used Lexis-Nexis to find out that Obama said this almost a year ago:
Chattanooga Times Free Press (Tennessee)
August 23, 2007 Thursday
Obama on foreign policy
SECTION: TIMES; Pg. B6
LENGTH: 766 words
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Sen. Barack Obama is getting polite applause at best when he tells the delegates at the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention here this week that in running for president, "I know I am running for commander in chief." And then he tries to convince this intensely skeptical audience that he's the right man for the job.
Obama added some new (and potentially controversial) foreign policy details in an interview Tuesday afternoon, before he hopped a plane for his next stop in New Hampshire. He said he expects there will still be U.S. troops in Iraq when the next president takes office, and he is discussing now with his advisers how this residual force should be used."For getting out in an orderly way, withdrawing one to two brigades a month is realistic," he said. With 20 combat brigades currently in Iraq, that would imply a withdrawal schedule of at least a year
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