What's the difference between a timetable and a time "horizon"?

If you can answer that question you're smarter than me.

It seems Bush-McCain want to neutralize Iraq as an issue for the election because they know its a loser for them. So...declare victory and get out?

But why? With polls showing Obama with a 20 point lead on economic issues, the only thing really holding him back is voter's worries about his national securtiy credentials.

If the republicans take Iraq off the table as an issue by declaring victory before Novemeber, all that would leave is domestic and economic issues, where Obama absolutely blows McCain out of the water.

Asked whom they trust more to handle the economy, 54 percent named Obama, while 35 percent said McCain. Obama also holds double-digit leads on dealing with the federal budget deficit and on immigration. On social issues such as abortion and same-sex civil unions, 56 percent prefer Obama, 32 percent McCain.

So what's the deal here? Is this a "genuine" effort to try to bring this war to an end, or is this just a bait and switch? Tell the voters your position is the same as Obama's so it neutralizes a bad issue for you only to reverse course and change your mind once you've been elected? Is this like Nixon's "secret plan" to win the war?