At Falwell’s University, McCain Defends Iraq War
The above is a headline in today’s New York Times (14 May 2006)… I think you could also call it the last nail in John McCain’s political coffin.
I voted for McCain in the first primary because I thought he was a man of integrity. I was astonished and disgusted at the tactics used by the Bush campaign to defeat him for the Republican nomination.
But I have been revising my opinion of McCain downwards ever since. Given his intelligence and background he must have had serious reservations about Bush’s justification for the war in Iraq and he certainly was aware of how incompetently the war was being prosecuted. And one suspects he despises Bush personally but he still cozied-up to the Bush campaign in the second election.
Here is a guy who paid a terrible personal price during our nation’s last unnecessary, incompetently led war… Who knows that there are young soldiers and marines now paying a similarly terrible price for the self-serving, bordering on traitorous, incompetence of the current administration.
And yet here McCain is once again acting as stooge for Bush and his cronies. Kissing Falwell’s ring isn’t quite as bad… People won’t die as a result but it is similarly stomach-turning.
Feet of Clay doesn’t do it justice.
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