UK PM Brown Talks Troop Withdrawal


	UK PM Brown Talks Troop Withdrawal

Wisco

7-22-2008 2:35 PM

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Over at Political Wire, Taegan Goddard calls this "Another Gift for Obama," noting that this has happened just "days in advance of Sen. Barack Obama's stop in London."

John McCain becomes even more isolated in the world.

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