As Keith Olbermann deftly shows, the bumbling McCain totally confuses the timeline and history of “the surge” by claiming it preceded the overtures toward and formation of the Sunni Awakening Councils; the Republican presidential nominee even claims that the former was the cause of the latter, when the formation of the Awakening Movement preceded talk of a US troop surge by some 2 months! The present marriage of convenience and partial reconciliation of the occupation forces with Iraq’s Sunni community was largely the consequence of fear of further marginalization by their Shi’a compatriots who make up some 60% of the Iraqi population, and it was this which gave impetus to the decline in violence in Iraq, not the exercise in delusion, which is “the surge”. The funny thing is that even Bush has acknowledged this in part, while the reactionary and doddering McCain trails behind one of the most loathed government’s in American history. CBS’s regrettable “editing” on behalf of this buffoon is highly lamentable…
