The actual course of events was that Republicans and Bush fought against a funding bill that had a withdrawal timetable, i.e. a "surrender rider" attached to it. This bill was vetoed on May 1. This is the bill Obama voted for, and McCain against.

A second bill, without the surrender rider, came up later. This is the bill Obama voted against, and the one that eventually passed. Obviously, to Obama, the surrender rider was the important part of the bill, not the funding.

Nice try, though.

You might not want to be reminding people that the Democrats spent most of 2007 trying to sabotage the war in Iraq with poison-pill funding bills.

News story

I remember how Petraeus was received by Democrats in September, too.