This thread is a joke.  It didn't take immense foresight to see that the Iraq didn't present an imminent threat to the US in 2002, or that the Bush administration would abuse whatever authority Congress gave it.  Many Dems made this argument.  Obama, similarly, hasn't backtracked one iota from his position that the US should be out of Iraq in 18 months.  

It's just weird that many who supported Clinton seem to be arguing as though politics absent conviction represents some sort of virtue (and what they're doing w/ respect to Obama and Iraq, I'll suggest, isn't so much different from what many conservatives are doing, ie. reading into his statements implied support for positions they already hold).

I'm totally confident that Obama is savvy enough to understand that how the US disengages from Iraq is vital, because if we mess this up we'll be back in 1-2 years (ie. those who want the US to be out in six months are the impractical ones).  There's literally nothing which suggests that disengagement isn't his ultimate goal.