David Gergen: “However wrong it may have been to get into Iraq, he's been proven…”

On the recordMarch 18, 2008

However wrong it may have been to get into Iraq, he's been proven prophetic and right about the need for a surge and what it might do.

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Gergen acknowledges McCain's stance on the surge in Iraq as being correct despite the initial decision to go to war being wrong.

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