IDADI YA WATU WALIOSOMA HABARI HII: experience, whch McCain repeatedly came back too--he's now veered from experience, to being the man of change, and now back to experience again...pick one John--is meaningless if it doesn't counsel one's judgment. And McCain, for all his experience was flat wrong on the wisdom of commiting forces to Iraq. That's the large threshhold question for the next President who will be in charge of those forces and making decisions onwhether and where to deploy them in the future. Obama clearly laid out a plan for going forward. I thought it was McCain who didn't lay out a plan for going forward. The surge is over and those troops are coming home now, so it's pretty irrelevant at this point. Obama wants to wind down the force in Iraq and recommit troops to the effort in Afghanistan, where the Taliban and al-Queda are resurgent. He also outlined to costs of Iraq in both financial terms--we're spending $10B month when Iraq is swimming in oil profits giving them a $79B surplus--and our standing in the world--while we've been bogged down in Iraq, China has been free to exert its influence and trade connections around the globe and advance its economy, Russia has been unimpeded, North Korea has been free to do almost whatever it wants, and Iran as been free to push its nuclear program. McCain came nowhere een close to elaborating an extensive world view as this. Instead, he kept bringing up thr surge and how we're going to win in Iraq. All well and good, but this election of where we're going, not where we've been. And only one candidate spoke to that and it wasn't John McCain.