quite for sometime, we ve been able to capture what the president actually felt about iraq before he was president. watch this. this surge concept is, in fact, no different from what we have repeatedly tried but with 20,000 troops, we will not in any imaginable way be able to accomplish any new progress. the fact of the matter is that we have tried this road before. now, if you have said that before and tonight, you re going to announce the end of combat operations and we ll find out to some degree accept pats on the back for doing it. you have to acknowledge oops, boy, was i wrong in 2007. you know, our military surprise made president bush face down critics and went ahead with the surge which indeed worked. do you mention that at all? yeah, you have to somehow mention the surge. we acknowledge that and got a little bit a hint on what he might say in regard to this on