McCain plays Oracle of DelphiMay 15th, 2008 - 19:56:48

Does anyone need reminders of all of the promises that Bush, Rumsfeld, and the rest of the imbeciles made? 6 years and counting.

Calling Iraq a 'democracy' is like calling the housing mess in this country 'stable'. Iraq has always been split along sectarian lines (only for 1300 years insofar as the entire region), but under the heavy hand of a dictator like Saddam, 'peace' was enforced, and he had his own army to back him up. The same army that Bremer sent home with their guns and uniforms.

The attacks coming in Mosul are well-supported by U.S. intelligence, airpower, and firepower, including Predator UAV's to watch over the battlefield.

Now ask yourself - without the U.S. troop presence to back up al-Maliki, just WHAT would the Iraqi Army have to operate with, against a group of terrorists willing to commit suicide?

Check the news in Afghanistan, another 'democracy':

ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i8dGftYb0s4XWdUMRdIVs3vh1CKAD90LUEQ81

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An official says a suicide bomber wearing a burqa has killed 15 people and wounded 22 others in a crowded market in southwestern Afghanistan.

Farah province official Younus Rasoul said the bomber struck in Dilaram district Thursday. The dead included three policemen and 12 civilians.

Afghanistan is battling a raging Taliban-led insurgency.

At least 1,200 people — mostly militants — have died in insurgency-related violence in 2008, according to a tally compiled by The Associated Press. The U.N. says more than 8,000 people, most of them militants, died in insurgency-related violence in 2007.

(McCain is a fool, a liar, or listening to the wrong people - either way, it would be a gross error to give him the Presidency. I admire him as a human being, but as a President, he'd be our second successive disaster).

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Agree......May 16th, 2008 - 03:50:02

totally. McCain would just be a continuation of the same old same old or worse!

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Stephen VossMay 16th, 2008 - 22:55:29

I’m not surprised that John McCain pictures “most” US troops out of Iraq 5 years from now. What astonishes me is that the media criticize his wish list for being 'rosy'.

Most Americans want this war concluded long before 2013. Very few of us are prepared for a President who tells them in 2013 'Of course my wish list wasn't a timetable, my hope of just 5 more years of war did turn out to be too rosy, but if you re-elect me I really hope that by the end of my second term in 2017 most of the troops will be withdrawn. If not, my good friend Jeb Bush has already assured me that he'll take over; he's kinda sure that he can achieve victory by 2021 ... or thereabouts.'

Any President who drags this war out one day longer than necessary will have the people to deal with, and anyone in the media who says it should drag on that long needs his press credentials removed.

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@S.V.May 17th, 2008 - 15:05:50

You couldn't be more right!

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