Iraq problem immediately jumps to the top of the list of the next president's massive to-do list...

AP, here

"...For Obama, the agreement, as it now stands, comes closer to what he has been proposing all along. His campaign promise to set a 16-month deadline for pulling out U.S. troops would expire in May 2010. But that's still more than a year and a half before what's called for in the pending U.S.-Iraqi agreement.Obama also wants to leave in place a U.S. presence of unspecified size that would continue training Iraqi forces, protecting U.S. interests and standing by as a rapid-response force in case of a significant resurgence of violence. That position leaves him room to maneuver as well..."