Who agrees with Obama?

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• George W. Bush, President of the U.S.: see above
• John McCain, presumptive Republican nominee: We should send 3, not just 2, additional brigades to Afghanistan. He also feels that the 16-month timetable is feasible.
  
• Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan: Afghanistan should be the central focus of the war on terrorism.
• Nuri Al-Maliki, Prime Minister of Iraq: Most of the U.S. troops should be out of Iraq by the end of 2010.
• Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of Britain: announced a major drawdown of his nation’s troops by early 2009.
• Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California: feels that we cannot drill our way out of our energy crisis.
• Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany: had the German parliament approve an increase (by over thrice) of its troop contribution to NATO forces in Afghanistan.