John McCain opens fire on Barack Obama over Iraq war, urges joint visit | The Australian
"For him to talk about dates for withdrawal, which basically is surrender in Iraq, after we're succeeding so well, is really inexcusable," said Senator McCain, who has been to Iraq eight times, most recently in March.
Senator Lindsey Graham, one of Senator McCain's top allies, laid the groundwork for his criticism in a television interview in which he noted Senator Obama's absence from Iraq. He floated the idea that the two men should go together to be briefed by General David Petraeus, the top US commander in Iraq, and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
From what I can tell, the only people that I have ever heard use the term 'surrender' regarding Iraq have all been Republicans.
These guys really have a hard time admitting that they have made such a monumental screw up. The very idea of admitting that you were wrong to invade a country on false pretenses, costing both countries (and more) trillions of dollars and untold lives, is apparently inconceivable.
Did we 'surrender' in Viet Nam? Hell no. We packed our bags and got the hell out of the mess we made and let the Vietnamese clean it up (which they did a fine job of). And we now have 'normalized relations' with them.
