I wish McCain would give President Bush some credit. He is running as if he invented the Surge .Here was part of his ill-timed address last night:
I disagreed strongly with the Bush administration's mismanagement of the war in Iraq . I called for the change in strategy that is now, at last, succeeding where the previous strategy had failed miserably. I was criticized for doing so by Republicans. I was criticized by Democrats. I was criticized by the press. But I don't answer to them. I answer to you. And I would be ashamed to admit I knew what had to be done in Iraq to spare us from a defeat that would endanger us for years, but I kept quiet because it was too politically hard for me to do. No ambition is more important to me than the security of the country I have defended all my adult life.
Nonsense. It was President Bush who risked all by defying conventional wisdom in the form of the Baker Iraq Surrender Report ;and adopted a plan drawn up by General Petraeus... not McCain. I'll give McCain credit for getting on board ,and for calling for more troops . But the plan adopted was not McCain's .
