People change history to cover up for their fuckups.

Also known as CYA.

You use Bush who did not change his mind as a smoke screen to cover for a whiney, weazely, flipflopper who tries to claim credit for what Bush did by claiming he said something different from what he actually said.

Bush was right about the surge and Obama was flat ass wrong but he is too arrogant to admit it.

Remember when Obama was chest beating about Guantanamo? Executive order signed January 22, 2009 to close Guantanamo within a year? Sorta over due now isn't it?

McCain said he thinks the new president may have been hasty in the decision and should have taken the time to consider everything associated with closing the camp before forcing himself into a timetable.

Specifically, McCain said he thought Obama needed to consider what would happen to the prisoners held at Guantanamo before ordering the facility to be closed.

"So, the easy part, in all due respect, is to say we're going to close Guantanamo," McCain said. "Then I think I would have said where they were going to be taken. Because you're going to run into a NIMBY [not in my backyard] problem here in the United States of America."

Obama was flat ass wrong and McCain was right.