“It is clear at this point that we cannot, through putting more troops or maintaining the presence that we have, expect that somehow the situation [in Iraq] is going to improve,” then-Senator Obama said in October 2006, three months prior to the surge. "I am not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq are going to solve the sectarian violence there. In fact, I think it will do the reverse" Obama said once the surge was announced, later insisting that the new strategy would “not prove to be one that changes the dynamics significantly.” The rest, as they say, is history. Full Article at Pajamas Media