TPMtv: Just a Matter of History

In the past week John McCain and his surrogates have done their best to focus the entire McCain-Obama debate on the question of which candidate was right about the troop surge in Iraq. So it was a little surprising to see McCain on the CBS Evening News last night get a basic historical fact about the surge so plainly wrong …

High-res version at Veracifier.com.

Late Update: And if you do question McCain’s version of history, all you’re doing is trying to steal the credit the troops deserve, a McCain surrogate claims.