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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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David Gergen
Independent · Massachusetts

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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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