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The troop surge in Iraq has been more successful than anyone could have

imagined, Barack Obama conceded Thursday in his first-ever interview on FOX

News' "The O'Reilly Factor."

As recently as July, the Democratic presidential candidate declined to rate

the surge a success, but said it had helped reduce violence in the country.

On Thursday, Obama acknowledged the 2007 increase in U.S. troops has

benefited the Iraqi people.

"I think that the surge has succeeded in ways that nobody anticipated,"

Obama said while refusing to retract his initial opposition to the surge.

"I've already said it's succeeded beyond our wildest dreams."

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Uh... Sen. McCain envisioned it succeeding, back when Obama said there was

no way it would work and indeed had already failed, and other politicians

were busy rewriting their positions to reflect falling polls.

Ah, yes, Obama's experience and judgment. That's change we can believe in.

Not.

- Bob