And he gives a press conference there:
"Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Tuesday that security in Iraq has improved and that the United States urgently needs to turn its attention to Afghanistan. "There is security progress, but now we need a political solution" in Iraq, Obama said in the first news conference of his highly publicized trip abroad."
Oh, there's "security progress" in Iraq, Senator? Don't forget to mention that the surge which has greatly helped to bring that "progress" is something that you stoutly opposed and said would never work. Oh, you forgot to mention that part...
Then your opponents will have to keep bringing it up.