From NBC/NJ's Athena Jones
President Bush and McCain are playing catch-up with Obama when it comes to Iraq and Afghanistan, Obama advisers said on a conference call today.
The aides were responding to news that Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki had agreed that any new agreement regarding US-Iraqi relations after the UN mandate expires at year-end should include “a general time horizon" for withdrawing American troops from the country.
Senior foreign policy adviser Susan Rice said the presumptive Democratic nominee had been a leader on issues regarding Iraq and Afghanistan -- having long-called for a strategic redeployment of US troops from the former, a[...]