McCain: Obama will realize his ‘misjudgment’ in Iraq

Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) predicted Monday that his Democratic rival Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) during his Iraq visit would “see for himself that he had a gross misjudgment” regarding the troop surge.

“He railed against it, he voted against the surge, and he said it would fail. He was wrong there,” McCain said on CBS’s “Early Show.”

{mosads}“If Sen. Obama had had his way, [they would have] been out last March, and [we would have] never had the surge, and we would have failed and we would have then faced enormous consequences of defeat both … in Iraq, and it would have affected Afghanistan,” McCain added.

The GOP standard-bearer accused Obama of still not acknowledging that the surge had been a success.

“The conditions there would be very different where he’s visiting as far as security is concerned and as far as our progress is concerned if we had done what he wanted to do,” the Arizona senator stated.

Obama is currently in Iraq, talking to U.S. military commanders, the troops and Iraqi leaders.