“We have drawn down to pre-surge levels.”

—  John McCain

29 May 2008 (a time when troops were not yet at pre-surge levels); YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42ke9Q-qXg4; see below for attempted recovery the following day
2000s, 2008

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