"Summary: After airing a video clip of Sen. Barack Obama saying of the "the surge of U.S. troops in Iraq," "I've already said, it's succeeded beyond our wildest dreams," ABC's David Wright stated, "The McCain campaign has been pushing Obama for weeks to admit that he was wrong to oppose the surge, a policy McCain championed early on," falsely suggesting that Obama said during his interview that he was wrong to oppose the surge."

"During the September 5 edition of ABC's World News, after ABC News correspondent David Wright asserted that Gov. Sarah Palin "attacked [Sen. Barack] Obama for what he told Bill O'Reilly last night about the surge of U.S. troops in Iraq," Wright aired a quote from Obama's interview on Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, saying, "I've already said, it's succeeded beyond our wildest dreams." Wright then stated, "The McCain campaign has been pushing Obama for weeks to admit that he was wrong to oppose the surge, a policy McCain championed early on," falsely suggesting that Obama said during his interview that he was wrong to oppose the surge. In fact, during the interview on the September 4 edition of The O'Reilly Factor, after Obama said, "I've already said it succeeded beyond our wildest dreams," host Bill O'Reilly asked, "So why can't you say, 'I was right in the beginning, and I was wrong about the surge?'" Obama responded, "Because there's an underlying problem with what have we done. We have reduced the violence, but the Iraqis still haven't taken responsibility, and we still don't have the kind of political reconciliation. We are still spending, Bill, $10 to $12 billion a month."

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