In the wake of President Obama's speech last, the neoconservative architects of the Iraq Warpredictably reemerged to claim credit for the national disaster they portray as success. But one of them, Bill Kristol, allowed that the address was, "on the whole, not a bad speech by the president," adding that it was "unrealistic for supporters of the war to expect the president to give the speech John McCain would have given."
For his part, McCain obliged by providing his own version of the speech - and history.