“One of the very few voices in American public life supporting an increase in troops [in Iraq] was that of Senator John McCain [R-AZ], who was in the difficult position of arguing that the war had been poorly executed but that more troops would improve the situation. ‘Without additional combat forces, we will not win this war,’ he said in mid-November [17, 2006].”
– Thomas E. Ricks, The Gamble, Page 94