Sen. McCain is trying to make this election all about Iraq and national security. As FPPfO has always said, we welcome that approach, as Sen. Obama’s track record in this area is much more convincing than the Arizona Senator’s.
But for someone who’s so intensely betting on his credentials as a foreign policy expert to lead him to the White House, he surely gets a lot of stuff wrong.
In an interview with CBS News, Sen. McCain tries to demonstrate the success of the surge in Iraq by bringing in Colonel McFarlane: because of the surge, we were able to protect a major Sunni Sheikh who had contacted the Colonel, and this led to the Anbar Awakening.
As MSNBC’s Olbermann puts it, Sen. McCain is either wrong or lying. Colonel McFarlane briefed the media on the Anbar awakening on September 29, 2006. Dates don’t add up, do they? No, they don’t: the surge was announced in early 2007.
Funny thing: CBS never aired that piece of McCain’s interview, literally covering up his mistake. You can read the transcript of the interview yourself.
Watch Olbermann’s coverage:
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