Pawns
July 18th, 2008
The level of violence in Iraq has gone down. Some commentators believe that our decision to send more troops to Iraq caused the reduction in violence.1 One of the early proponents of sending more troops into Iraq, Senator McCain, sounded triumphant in July.
“Many, many experts said that the surge would not succeed and said that I was wrong,” said McCain. “And, my friend I was right.”2
Actually, a close examination of the events of 2007 shows that John McCain was dead wrong.