HuffPo's Seth Colter Walls found a gem of a quote -- John McCain talking about the Anbar Awakening on January 5, 2007...before Bush announced the surge.
Too often the light at the tunnel has turned out to be a train, but I really believe -- I really believe that there's a strong possibility that you may see a very substantial change in Anbar province due to this new changes in our relationships with the sheiks in the region.
As you know, McCain's CBS whopper was that these relationships (the Anbar Awakening) did not begin until the surge started. But they actually began in 2006, and now, thanks to the fact that I happened to have video of the event Walls referenced (go figure), we've got a YouTube clip of John McCain making that very point himself, in his own words -- before there ever was a surge.
Here's the video (and yes, it is sick that I happened to have video captured of the very same event that Walls' transcript came from).
Link: YouTube
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Off-topic note for digg users:
Apparently McCainiacs on digg buried my new video about McCain and Iraq ("John McCain's Neverending War"). It disappeared from the upcoming list and went onto the bury list despite getting 200 diggs in just a few hours. Please help get the word out and shut them down by digging the new digg.
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