“Visiting Iraq at the beginning of April [2007], Senator John McCain [R-AZ] expressed ‘cautious, very cautious optimism’ about the effects of the new [troop surge] strategy. ‘We’ve made tremendous mistakes,’ he said in Baghdad on April Fool’s Day, ‘but we’re finally getting it right. And is it too little, too late? I don’t know, but I don’t think so.’ ”
– Thomas E. Ricks, The Gamble, Page 190