Today on the presidential campaign trail

Obama gets withdrawal support from Iraqis, military briefing, helicopter tour from Petraeus ... McCain releases energy attack ad, questions Obama's credentials as rival tours war zone ... GOP counting on convention planning, venue to lift McCain's prospects in November ... Obama cuts back on spending in June as he builds up cash reserves

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Obama in Iraq: Withdrawal support but no timetable

BAGHDAD (AP)--Face to face with Iraq's leaders, Democrat Barack Obama gained fresh support Monday for the idea of pulling all U.S. combat forces from the war zone by 2010. But the Iraqis stopped short of actual timetables or an endorsement of Obama's pledge to withdraw American troops within 16 months if he wins the presidency.

Obama also got a military briefing--and a helicopter tour--from the top U.S. commander in the region, Gen. David Petraeus. He also met with some of the nearly 150,000 U.S. troops now well into the war's sixth year.

Back in the U.S., Republican rival John McCain said he hoped Obama's visit would open his eyes to the danger of withdrawal timetables. Said the Arizona senator: "When you win wars, troops come home." He said of Obama: "He's been completely wrong on the issue."

As Obama visited Iraq for the first time in more than two years, comments Monday by the government's spokesman roughly mirrored the Illinois senator's withdrawal schedule and offered a glimpse of Iraq's growing confidence as violence drops and Iraqi security forces expand their roles.

"We are hoping that in 2010 that combat troops will withdraw from Iraq," spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said after Obama met with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki--who has struggled for days to clarify Iraq's position on a possible timetable for a U.S. troop pullout.

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