Sen. Barack Obama said he found “a strong, emerging consensus” for the redeployment of U.S. combat forces from Iraq, with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki telling Obama he hoped American combat troops will be gone in two years.

The Iraqi government has been pushing for the United States to set a general timetable to spell out troops withdrawals. The countries are negotiating a security agreement that would define the presence of U.S. troops in Iraq, and the notion of a general time frame recently was made part of the negotiations.

Let us see, Obama has said that troops would be out in 16 months (est), Maliki has said by the end of 2010, and now Bush and the Boyz are talking about a time horizon.  McCain and the mouths are saying stay the course and a possibility of more troops.  Sorry, McCain is odd man out.

McCain has officially been thrown under the bus by Bush and Maliki; making Obama and his position as the more realistic one.