This Sunday on ABC's "This Week", McCain was asked point-blank whether he would admit that Obama was right and he was wrong about the (original) decision to go to war, and McCain said
"of course not".
So with all the "Obama-won't-admit-he-was-wrong-about-the-surge" hullabaloo that the MSM is running with, isn't McCain's misjudgment on the original decision to invade a country that did nothing to us, will cost us a trillion dollars, and has caused innumerable deaths among Iraqis and over 4,000 Americans a FAR GREATER measure of competence and judgment?
If the MSM were not biased, they would query McCain supporters about this every time they pop up on the tv to recite the Obama-surge talking point.
http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/story?id=5457720&page=1STEPHANOPOULOS: But there was a fundamental difference about the original decision to go to war. He said it would inflame the Muslim world, it would become a recruitment tool for al Qaeda.
You said, and you wrote, that it would lessen antipathy in the Muslim world, and that we'd be greeted as liberators.
Wasn't Senator Obama right about that?
MCCAIN: I don't believe so. We were greeted as liberators. We mishandled the war for nearly four years. We mishandled it in a way that was so harmful that I stood up against it. I said it wouldn't work. I said we had to have a new strategy, and I was criticized for being disloyal -- disloyal to Republicans.
STEPHANOPOULOS: You also said many times that the strategy was the right strategy.
MCCAIN: I said that Saddam Hussein caused a -- imposed a threat to the United States of America and our security. And the Oil for Food scandal, the $12 billion he was skimming, the fact that he had said that he had in operation and he wanted to have weapons of mass destruction, the fact that this society that he ruled in such a brutal fashion was really awful. And he did pose a long-term threat to the security of the United States of America.
But that's a job for the historians.
When the crucial time came as to whether we were going to leave Iraq and lose, or stay and do the very unpopular thing of 30,000 additional troops -- asking young Americans to make the sacrifice -- he was wrong, I was right. That was the crucial point...
STEPHANOPOULOS: And you don't...
MCCAIN: ... in the strategy.
STEPHANOPOULOS: ... accept that he was right and you were wrong...
MCCAIN: Of course not.
STEPHANOPOULOS: ... on the original decision.
MCCAIN: Of course not. Of course not. 
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