McCain Talks About Anbar Awakening...Before The Surge

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Description: Here's video John McCain on January 5, 2007, saying he is optimistic about Anbar because of our newly developing relationships with Anbar's sheiks (this is the so-called Anbar Awakening that began in 2006).This was of course before the surge -- the very same surge he now credits with having started the Anbar Awakening.H/T to HuffPo's Seth Colter Walls who found the transcript with McCain's remarks. Seth also has posted a thorough debunking of McCain's false claim...

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Tags: anbar  awakening  john  mccain  sheiks  surge 

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