Now, would this be retreating on retreating? Of the Democratic frontrunners for the nomination, not a single one was willing to commit withdrawing troops from Iraq…by 2013.

HANOVER, N.H. - The leading Democratic White House hopefuls conceded Wednesday night they cannot guarantee to pull all U.S. combat troops from Iraq by the end of the next presidential term in 2013.

“I think it’s hard to project four years from now,” said Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois in the opening moments of a campaign debate in the nation’s first primary state.

“It is very difficult to know what we’re going to be inheriting,” added Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York.

“I cannot make that commitment,” said former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina.

Good to get on record. While Obama and Clinton are criticizing Bush for keeping troops there, they themselves couldn’t guarantee the troops would be withdrawn for another 4 years.