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Originally Posted by Aquila
We should be reminded that McCain was caught in a series of lies about his Iraq visit.
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If you are talking about the NOT wearing of body armour, I heard the same information, a couple of days ago, involving other military personal who didn't wear body armour every time they go out. It was a solider being interviewed.
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If you are talking about the Humvees not having armour plates that is also true. I personally know someone that works on getting these out to be shipped and they said that not all of them have the armour plates, but they are trying to get them all equipped.
On the pre-surge numbers. I don't have my facts on that.
Found the point made and am adding it here. 3 of the 5 brigades that were involved in the pre-surge are heading back to the US.The remaining two will be back by July. That didn't bring down the number of troops in Iraq from pre-surge. though. So, apparently McCain is focusing on the brigades and not the numbers.
There is one thing to remember about this - McCain stood on the side of the surge when it was not a popular thing to do politically and it was effective. So, even though the attention was diverted to numbers and not how many brigades he knows what he is doing militarily.