A year ago Barack Obama was talking about how the surge of US troops into Iraq was going to fail.  He called it bad strategy, and said he could not support it.

Today, however, he finally granted an interview to Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly and during that interview finally admitted that the surge worked.

The troop surge in Iraq has been more successful than anyone could have imagined, Barack Obama conceded Thursday in his first-ever interview on FOX News’ “The O’Reilly Factor.”

As recently as July, the Democratic presidential candidate declined to rate the surge a success, but said it had helped reduce violence in the country. On Thursday, Obama acknowledged the 2007 increase in U.S. troops has benefited the Iraqi people.

“I think that the surge has succeeded in ways that nobody anticipated,” Obama said while refusing to retract his initial opposition to the surge. “I’ve already said it’s succeeded beyond our wildest dreams.”

“...succeeded in ways that nobody anticipated.” That nobody anticipated.

Nobody, that is, except the Bush administration.  Nobody except General David Petraeus, the architect of the surge strategy.  Nobody but Obama’s opponent, Senator John McCain.

Does Obama think we’re stupid?  He must, in trying to pass off a line like that.