Michael Hastings: �There�s his war record in Iraq, starting when he headed up the Iraqi security force training program in 2004. He�s more or less skated on that, including all the weapons he lost, the insane corruption, and the fact that he essentially armed and trained what later became known as �Iraqi death squads.� On his final Iraq tour, during the so-called "surge," he pulled off what is perhaps the most impressive con job in recent American history. He convinced the entire Washington establishment that we won the war.