McCain calls for 10,000 extra troops for Iraq

"Senator John McCain on Thursday called for an immediate increase of 10,000 troops in Iraq, and said the “stakes are higher than they were in Vietnam” for US foreign policy.

Conceding that there was an “undeniable sense that things are slipping” in Iraq, Mr McCain, an Arizona Republican, said: “We need a renewed effort to win the home front. Without it we will lose this war as soundly as if we had lost on the battlefield . . . We must get Iraq right, as American stakes in the conflict are enormous.”

He criticised the Bush administration’s relentless message about progress in Iraq. “We need to portray events on the ground even if they are negative, it is better to describe difficulties right now, and to announce things have improved only when they have . . . In Vietnam there was light at the end of the tunnel and it turned out to be a train.”"
FT.com

I said as much just the other day. Unfortunately for now I think it's more of the same, the deaf leading the blind.