The McCain Op-Ed The New York Times Wouldn’t Publish

Bill: This is a link to what McCain submitted as on op-ed to the New York Time and they turned down. Section of it below link is to the entire op-ed.

Progress has been due primarily to an increase in the number of troops and a change in their strategy. I was an early advocate of the surge at a time when it had few supporters in Washington. Senator Barack Obama was an equally vocal opponent. “I am not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq is going to solve the sectarian violence there,” he said on January 10, 2007. “In fact, I think it will do the reverse.”