… but they don’t really matter.
I say this in reference to John McCain’s misstatement of when the surge began.
His defense of his inclusion of the Anbar awakening in the surge is that the strategy went along with the one the surge was meant to support.
That’s plausible, but he still goofed. The surge of troops President Bush announced in early 2007 preceded the Anbar awakening.
But, really, it doesn’t matter.
What the electorate cares about is this: Which candidate’s policy on Iraq makes more sense and which one’s going to do what I want him to do?
Same goes for Barack Obama’s statement that “my” Senate Banking Committee called for divestment from Iran to blunt its development of nukes.
Obama’s not even on the Senate Banking Committee.
But, really, who cares?
It’s been a long campaign, and, judging by the waves these stories have made, it’s going to seem REALLY long by the time we vote on Nov. 4.