Sunday, September 07, 2008

Obama Finally Admits Surge Has Worked-Sort of

Obama was on Bill O'Reilly's show and finally admits that the surge worked. Beyond our wildest dreams. Now he doesn't admit he was wrong for continually opposing it, but as a politician, he is not "allowed" to suggest he "might have been" (ie...was) wrong.

“I think that the surge has succeeded in ways that nobody anticipated -- by the way, including President Bush and the other supporters. It has gone very well,” Obama conceded. But, he added, it still hasn’t been a total success.

“We have reduced the violence, but the Iraqis still haven’t taken responsibility, and we still don’t have the kind of political reconciliation -- we are still spending $10-$12 billion dollars a month,” Obama said.

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