Some Obama supporters kidded themselves.

How is it that so many missed Sen. Barack Obama’s foreign policy? Absolutely nothing about his foreign policy is anti-war or even anti-Iraq war (not when one of his top aides says ideally "only 60-80,000 troops would be left in Iraq"), speeches not residing. More specifically his foreign policy hasn't been, since running for president, what some Obama supporters or Ron Paul has wanted. I’m not entirely sure what his supporters who are now acting as if he has changed his Iraq plan has been thinking this whole time. He has always said he’d withdraw troops on a 16 month plan but listen to his commanders on the ground. He has always maintained the right as President to change his mind depending on what is going on, on the ground. He has always said that he’d leave enough troops behind to protect our contractors/non-military personnel that we have working in Iraq, which, last time I checked, was more than the amount of troops we currently have so how drawn down can our troop level really go? He has said he'd leave troops to train Iraqi forces. He has also always maintained that he just wants to withdraw troops in order to go into Afghanistan and Pakistan to go after Bin Laden. The only anti-war vote was Ron Paul (now maybe Nader?). Some of his supporters and supposed 65% (most polls say 60-68%) of this country that doesn’t support this war need to admit this. Sadly, not only has this always been Obama’s stance but he’s only been asked pointed questions that attempted to get specifics from him by the late Tim Russert. Even then we got none. Obama has some cold hard facts to deal with in regards to wanting to increase troop levels in Afghanistan and wanting to go into Pakistan after bringing down troop levels in Iraq. I believe we'll see an actual move on his stance once he comes back from Iraq that will be largely nuance and partly spin, maybe even the other way around. Wait for the backlash when Obama actually changes.

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