Please find a link to back up the statement that he said we'd be out in 11 months. I do remember that in one debate that Biden said it would be physically impossible to move troops any faster than 2 brigades a month and that even that could be a challenge. Now Obama says 1 to 2 brigades a month.

You think that is a shift in position or acceptance of a military reality? Show me where he said that we'd be out in less than a year. The fact is that Obama has said he'd get us out. If you think that he should be forced to stick to a schedule, regardless of any other facts on the ground....your nuts. Are you just trying to tell Obama supporters that the primary goal of getting out should be considered secondary to sticking to dates?

Bush has not told the military to plan to leave. He has reduced the current manpower to pre-surge levels and has said nothing more about any further reductions. Do you actually think Bush gives a shit about what his generals say? He certainly didn't when General Shinseki disagreed with Rumsfeld on the troops needed to invade and occupy Iraq. I wonder what Bush is thinking now that the commanding officer of the command unit responsible for Afghanistan and Iraq is saying he doesn't have enough troops to battle the Taliban. When will he be moving troops to Afghanistan?

You'll have to be far more informative about the stances you think he has changed regarding nukes and taxes.

All of the research I have done shows Obama to be consistent. If you actually think that policies as a state legislator and as president should be the same then we will never see eye to eye.