Senator Barack Obama met with Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki in Baghdad on Monday. (Pool photograph by Thaier al-Sudani) So far, Mideast tour seems to be good for Obama : The Iraqi government left little doubt that it favored a withdrawal plan for U.S. combat troops similar to what Senator Barack Obama has proposed, providing Obama with a potentially powerful political boost in fortifying his credibility as a wartime leader as he continued his Middle East tour on Tuesday. After a day spent meeting Iraqi leaders and U.S. military commanders on Monday, Obama seemed to have navigated one of the riskiest portions of a weeklong international trip without a noticeable hitch and to have gained a new opportunity to blunt attacks on his national security credentials by his Republican rival in the presidential race, Senator John...
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