The conventional wisdom had been that, by campaign's end, withdrawal-happy Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., will have had to move so far off his position on Iraq that it will be virtually indistinguishable from those in the standing-down-when-they-stand-up camp.

That's not happening. Most of the movement these days has come from Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and President George W. Bush, whose Iraq and Afghanistan stances had, since the Iraq troop surge, been pretty much from the same stand-dow ...

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