Soulja Boy off the rails again

John McCain, recently returned from a visit to Iraq, had this to say:

"For the first time, I have seen Osama bin Laden and General (David) Petraeus in agreement, and, that is, a central battleground in the battle against al-Qaida is in Iraq today. And my Democrat opponents who want to pull out of Iraq refuse to understand what's being said and what's happening — and that is the central battleground is Iraq in this struggle against radical Islamic extremism."

Cannot argue with that. But, Mr McCain, would you agree that Islamic extremism had no foothold in Saddam's Iraq and it was the American invasion that expressly opened the doors for it? And that you were one of those who cheer-led the invasion?