The McCain campaign has a response piece out rebutting Obama’s brazen attempt to rewrite the history of his statements on Iraq, and the Surge in particular. (Via the Tank.)
For what it’s worth, the response leaves out one important point. Obama says that Iraq has “not reached the political accommodation that was the stated purpose of the surge.” This was stupid last September, when Democrats seized on the “benchmarks” to deny the achievements of the Surge. After all, for our purposes, those political goals were merely means to an end (i.e., to bring stability to Iraq) that was being met without them. Now, however, it’s doubly stupid, since now nearly all the (largely forgotten) benchmarks have seen satisfactory progress.
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