The McCain Bush bash begins
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“We seem to have forgotten them in the conduct of this conflict and it’s costing us an enormous amount – not just in Iraq but all over the world,” said the likely Republican presidential candidate in 2008. He is joined by three other veterans, including Washington fixture Jack Valenti, on a HOTSOUP.com Hot Issues panel about the Iraq-Vietnam parallels. interactive
McCain supported the Iraq war, but has criticized the Bush administration’s planning and execution. While calling for more U.S. troops in Iraq, the former Vietnam prisoner of war has implied that he’d prefer immediate withdrawal to a politically motivated staggered pull-out. “What I cannot do is ask (a U.S. soldier) to return to Iraq, to risk life and limb, so that we might delay our defeat for a few months or a year,” McCain said in a Nov. 16 address.
The Vietnam-Iraq panel was requested by HOTSOUP community members debating Iraq on the site. “Our desire to free Iraq from Saddam’s death grip was a noble cause, yet we did not fully understand the radicalism and hatred – the mindset of the people we were trying to free,” wrote “rcdude” in one of the site’s many forums on Iraq.
“What makes things worse,” added Badger38, “is we seem totally willing to sit around for a month or so until committees issue reports after which the whole matter will be discussed some more and argued over while people are dying.”
“I don’t think that there’s a possibility that Iraq will be better of when we’re done,” replied Ian Broverman, a former Hot Issues panelist, “but I’ll wait to see what the new leadership does with Iraq before I write it off completely.”
McCain supported the Iraq war, but has criticized the Bush administration’s planning and execution. While calling for more U.S. troops in Iraq, the former Vietnam prisoner of war has implied that he’d prefer immediate withdrawal to a politically motivated staggered pull-out. “What I cannot do is ask (a U.S. soldier) to return to Iraq, to risk life and limb, so that we might delay our defeat for a few months or a year,” McCain said in a Nov. 16 address.
The Vietnam-Iraq panel was requested by HOTSOUP community members debating Iraq on the site. “Our desire to free Iraq from Saddam’s death grip was a noble cause, yet we did not fully understand the radicalism and hatred – the mindset of the people we were trying to free,” wrote “rcdude” in one of the site’s many forums on Iraq.
“What makes things worse,” added Badger38, “is we seem totally willing to sit around for a month or so until committees issue reports after which the whole matter will be discussed some more and argued over while people are dying.”
“I don’t think that there’s a possibility that Iraq will be better of when we’re done,” replied Ian Broverman, a former Hot Issues panelist, “but I’ll wait to see what the new leadership does with Iraq before I write it off completely.”
I can't stand McCain. For the last 6 years he's done the same transparent $hit: get on his high horse, come out against the administration and then vote in their favor. I'm onto his game to appear to be a moderate, but at the end of the day, he was lock and step with the rest of his cronies.
yes. But not before he expresses his false outrage over the way things are going. What a politician.
I at least respected him at one point. But I think he was just pulling the "independent" wool over my eyes.
McCain is ambition's bitch. He burns to be President so badly that he sold his own soul for the chance at it. He's shit.