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Katie Couric's Interview With Obama (Sans Obama)

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Wednesday July 23, 2008

I wish – WISH – McCain could get grilled like this. EVER. No wonder nobody cares about this nitwit.

COURIC: Before the surge, as you know, Senator, there were 80 to 100 U.S. casualties a month, the country was rife with sectarian violence, and you raised a lot of eyebrows on this trip saying even knowing what you know now, you still would not have supported the surge. People may be scratching their heads and saying, “Why?”

COURIC: But didn’t the surge … help do that?

COURIC: All that may be true. But do you not give the surge any credit for reducing violence in Iraq?

COURIC: But talking microcosmically, did the surge, the addition of 30,000 additional troops … help the situation in Iraq?

COURIC: But yet you’re saying … given what you know now, you still wouldn’t support it … so I’m just trying to understand this.

COURIC: And I really don’t mean to belabor this, Senator, because I’m really, I’m trying to figure out your position. Do you think the level of security in Iraq … would exist today without the surge?