They said it.

[vvarmitr]

Amid all the questions, Jalal Eddin al-Saghir, a prominent Shiite cleric and lawmaker, offered one certainty in a conversation last week with Iraqi journalists: "Obama the president," he assured them, "will be different than Obama the candidate."

I read this in the news about BO's military pull out plans.  Seems Iraq isn't all that anxious for to leave & that some of our earlier enemies are now our closest allies.