Everybody knows McCain agreed with Bush about the need for an Iraq War. Perhaps McCain is a bigger hawk than Bush. Remember his "Bomb, bomb, bomb" remark and his statement that we may want to stay in Iraq for 100 years? Obama said no, this is a huge mistake.
Who is right and who is wrong? A great majority of the people agree with Obama.
For a long time McCain has been spouting the virtues of the "surge." According to CBS,MCain said this:
I am pleased that, following the surge strategy led by Gen. David Petraeus and our brave men and women in uniform, security in Iraq has improved to the point at which we can responsibly talk with our Iraqi allies about U.S. troop withdrawals.
Furthermore he has been taunting Obama and asking him why he does not admit the success of the "surge." Well, here's a report about General Petraeus, McCain's hero:
Petraeus is careful not to credit all the progress to the surge of U.S. troops in 2007. The sea change came last year from a series of movements now known as the Awakening. […] So would the Sunni Awakening have succeeded without the surge? Possibly, he concedes.
And McCain made this brilliant remark:
If Obama had his way, we would have been out last March, and we would not have succeeded. He was wrong then and he is wrong now. He fails to acknowledge the surge succeeded.
In other words, we did not exactly need the "surge." Again, a reasonable majority agrees. Will McCain apologize to Obama for all his taunting?
McCain, like Bush, has been repeating the mantra, "No timetables, no timetables, no timetables." Now the prime minister of Iraq, Nouri al Maliki, is is seeking a specific date when American troops are gone:
But now Maliki is demanding a "specific deadline" for the withdrawal not only of American combat troops but of all U.S. forces of any kind. Maliki's aides are saying that the latest date for the departure of the last American soldier from Iraq must be the end of 2011. Maliki himself told an audience of tribal sheikhs Monday, "There can be no treaty or agreement except on the basis of Iraq's full sovereignty."
Another place where the man of security, McCain, is wrong and Obama is right.
Here are three situations where McCain is wrong and Obama right. Instead of blustering McCain taunting Obama, prescient Obama should taunt McCain.
