"Strategy that's making Iraq safer snubbed for years"

"John McCain was right. Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney were wrong.

Strategy that is making Iraq safer was snubbed for years
By Peter Eisler, Blake Morrison and Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY

When Army Capt. Jeremy Gwinn's company patrolled Baghdad in 2005, the approach toward roadside bombs was simple: avoid them or die.
By early 2006, that strategy had begun to shift: Instead of hunting for the bombs, the soldiers hunted for bombmakers. "We started to know a lot of people in the community and develop contacts," recalls Gwinn, now a major. "There was a noticeable change … in the way we were doing things.""
Iraqi Mojo

I think you forgot someone, mainly the only one that really counted. Bush.

But that is history. The question now is, Who are they ignoring now?