See, you gotta love this:

Republican presidential candidate John McCain said on Friday he fears that al Qaeda or another extremist group might attempt spectacular attacks in Iraq to try to tilt the U.S. election against him.

So any “spectacular attacks” are because the Teh Terrorists don’t want McCain to win, meaning Americans should vote for him; but the absence of any spectacular attacks is proof that the surge is working and the war was a swell idea … which means Americans should vote for him.

Methinks McCain wants to have his terror and eat it too.