McCAIN HAS BEEN WRONG ON IRAQ FOR A LONG TIME

Frank Rich of the NYT points out that McCain is no better than the deluded neo-cons when it comes to Iraq and lets us know that he's been deluded for over a decade:

Or as he was in the 1990s, when he championed extravagant State Department funding for the war instigator Ahmad Chalabi, who’d already been branded untrustworthy by the C.I.A. (The relationship between Mr. Chalabi and the former lobbyist Charles Black, now a chief McCain campaign strategist, is explored in a new book, “The Man Who Pushed America to War,” by Aram Roston.)