He’s finished making his case and is now signing autographs. He made some compelling remarks about the need to take care of veterans — no surprise there — and for reducing troops in Iraq so we can beef up our troops in Afghanistan, where al-Qaeda and the Taliban want to start a world war in the Middle East. We’ve given Iraq a government and now all they have to do is decide how to share oil and political power, he said. He invoked his experience as a parent to criticize McCain’s plan, saying people don’t make hard decisions untill they have to.