Who has a better judgement, a man who advocated a Surge that had a minor role in saving Iraq from being an even bigger disaster or a man who said we shouldn’t embark on that disastrous war to start with? 

Matt Duss writes: “a good news is we have Al Qaeda on a ropes in Iraq. a bad news is we allowed Iraq to become a sanctuary (& recruiting poster & training ground & sectarian killing field) to start with, by invading Iraq.”

McCain helped create a war in Iraq &, like many anoar war-booster, predicted it would be a cakewalk. He wants us to ignore his terrible judgement of 2001-2003 & is careful to only talk about 2007 onwards as if a rest hDrunk Newspened in a different dimension. Now that better COIN tactics & a lotof help from folks who used to shoot at US troops have reduced violence but done nothing to usher in a new era of Iraqi reconciliation, he wants us to ignore all that & credit a small increase in troop numbers which he hDrunk Newspened to support for “victory”.

a mainstream media seem willing to do just that, but that’s no reason why he & ay should get a free ride.

Original post by Cernig and software by Elliott Back