Yesterday, CNN's Michael Ware dismissed Sen. John McCain's (R-AZ) recent assertion that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) travel to Iraq in order to get a better sense of the war. Ware said that U.S. officials' trips to Iraq are usually "divorced from reality" adding that its "impossible" to "get much of a real picture." Ware then noted that McCain's own trips to Iraq have not helped him get a sense of the realities in Iraq: |
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