I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating as the Democrats gear up for Foreign Policy Day at their convention: the Iraq War was a bad idea for reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with WMDs.
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Right now, the United States is an active participant in two civil wars: Iraq and Afghanistan.
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I apologize for not posting much lately. I’m in the middle of what will be a crazy couple of weeks here, so I might be writing much more sporadically on leftfielder than I normally do. I ask for your patience, and I promise I’ll be back to normal by mid-June.
In any case, as a result of not posting much the last week or so, I never got a chance to comment on Scott McClellan’s book, or in any case the Bush team’s push-back against their former compatriot. As you probably know, McClellan is the former White House Press Secretary who recently wrote an extremely scathing critique of the Bush Administration. The material isn’t horribly shocking (Bush is isolated from contrary opinions, they over-sold the Iraq War, botched the Katrina response, etc.), although nobody expected this from a man who owes his career (or what’s left of it) to Bush’s coattails.
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The conservative punditry has been going after Obama pretty hard lately for not visiting Iraq since the surge began. “How can he know what’s really happening?” they ask. McCain has been leading the chorus, as yet another way of implying that Obama is so young and inexperienced that he doesn’t know up from down. The assumption is that visiting a war zone gives you information and wisdom that staying at home does not. The problem is that this is an awful assumption.
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From a McCain Speech that he is expected to give today, as quoted by the New York Times:
“By January 2013, America has welcomed home most of the servicemen and women who have sacrificed terribly so that America might be secure in her freedom,’’ Mr. McCain is to say, according to excerpts of his speech provided by his campaign. “The Iraq War has been won. Iraq is a functioning democracy, although still suffering from the lingering effects of decades of tyranny and centuries of sectarian tension. Violence still occurs, but it is spasmodic and much reduced.’’
Apparently McCain thinks that Christ’s Millennial Reign will begin sometime in the next four years; either that, or McCain believes that he himself is the Bringer of Peace.
His “100 years” comment was bad politics, but at least it was honest. Now it looks like McCain has resorted to self delusion. Not exactly the most appealing trait in a presidential candidate…
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