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McCain was downright nasty.....and was concentrating on the surge when he knows who full well he was dead wrong on the WMDs....
I have almost lost all respect for him and that makes me feel bad, especially since he spent 6 years in a POW camp. However, both he and Hegel made it back home alive. Many did not. I think Hegel is just saying that any future deployments should not be made lightly because American troops will die.
As far as the surge working? I think it had more to do with the United States paying off the Sunni insurgents with cash than any increase in troop levels. Paying them off in Anbar province was David Petraeus' idea and it worked. Plus by that time even the Sunnis were getting tired of both the civil war and Al Quaeda in Iraq. And many American troops died after the surge too.
It will be many years before we know if Iraq was indeed any sort of success. McCain looked like he was trying to say that he was correct on the war....give me a break.
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