Well, Barry definately wasn't RIGHT on this one. According to Michael Barone:If George W. Bush was wrong about the surge from summer 2003 to January 2007, Barack Obama has been wrong about it from January 2007 to today. John McCain seems to have been right on it all along.
Well, of course he is wrong, because he was listening to Wright...or Pelosi...or Reid...but wait, Barone goes on:
During the Democratic primary season, all the party's candidates veered hardly a jot or tittle from the narrative that helped the Democrats sweep the November 2006 elections. Iraq is spiraling into civil war, we invaded unwisely and have botched things ever since, no good outcome is possible, and it is time to get out of there as fast as we can.
In January 2007, when George W. Bush ordered the surge strategy, which John McCain had advocated since the summer of 2003, Barack Obama informed us that the surge couldn't work. The only thing to do was to get out as soon as possible. That stance proved to be a good move toward winning the presidential nomination -- but it was poor prophecy. It is beyond doubt now that the surge has been hugely successful, beyond even the hopes of its strongest advocates, like Frederick and Kimberly Kagan. Violence is down enormously, Anbar and Basra and Sadr City have been pacified, Prime Minister Maliki has led successful attempts to pacify Shiites as well as Sunnis, and the Iraqi parliament has passed almost all of the "benchmark" legislation demanded by the Democratic Congress -- all of which Barack Obama seems to have barely noticed or noticed not at all. He has not visited Iraq since January 2006 and did not seek a meeting with Gen. David Petraeus when he was in Washington.
Yeah, Barack wants to be engaged on foreign policy...uh huh....They say Bush is clueless. Obama hasn't been to Iraq since 06 and didn't seek to ask the guy who engineered the surge a thing when he was in Washington. Disgraceful, and it shows again, a concrete lack of candor and judgement in the fact he cannot say he was incorrect about the surge or to support its effects. Absolutely disgraceful.
