Here are a few important historical excerpts just to remind everyone:
US election: Obama tells O'Reilly that Iraq surge is working during interview on Murdoch's Fox News network.
- theguardian.com, Thursday 4 September 2008 21.46 EDT
In the most surprising admission perhaps for a conservative audience, Obama said that George Bush's troop surge had improved security in Iraq.
"I think that the surge has succeeded in ways that nobody anticipated," Obama told host Bill O'Reilly. "It's succeeded beyond our wildest dreams."
"It's sufficient to say I would not take military action off the table, and that I will never hesitate to use our military force in order to protect the homeland and the United States' interests."
