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Barack Obama faces some problems in finding a good complementary Veep choice who has not dirtied themselves up with Pro-Iraq War baggage:
[O]ne possible path for Obama — a foreign/military guru known as “Obama’s Cheney” — seems especially promising but hard to find, for two reasons. First, most of the obvious options, such as senators on the Armed Services, Foreign Relations or Intelligence committees, support



