After Nouri al-Maliki met with Barack Obama in Baghdad, the Iraqi prime minister echoed approval of Obama’s withdrawal plan. [NBC News]
Marc Ambinder thinks this is the “Walkback of the Walkback.” [Atlantic]
Jonathan Martin has serious doubts about the McCain campaign’s effort to describe both Maliki and Obama’s statements on Iraq as inartful. [Politico]
Obama, David Petraeus and Chuck Hagel zoomed around in a helicopter. [CNN]
