Obama wrong on Iraq: McCain

WASHINGTON (AFP) — Republican White House candidate John McCain said Tuesday his Democratic foe Barack Obama was "wrong" on Iraq, and guilty of "bluster" and "idle threats" about striking Al-Qaeda in Pakistan.

But Democrats accused McCain of performing a political flip-flop and adopting Obama's plan to send more troops to Afghanistan, which has been hit by a recent upsurge in insurgent violence and terror attacks.

McCain scathingly responded to a major foreign policy address by Obama, by declaring the "status quo" in Afghanistan as not acceptable, and accused his rival of wanting to lose the war in Iraq.

"Today we know Senator Obama was wrong. The surge has succeeded and because of its success, the next president will inherit a situation in Iraq in which America's enemies are on the run," McCain said in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The Arizona senator, who had long called for a ...