McCain loves to toot his horn on how he is an "expert" when it comes to Iraq. He even has the audacity to criticize Senator Clinton on Obama on their position on the War in Iraq. He claims that they do not have what it takes to lead this nation in the struggle. Surprisingly, it is McCain who has been wrong about Iraq this whole time. Anyone that has been this incompetent for this long cannot and should not be trusted with leading our military through this war. Rosa Brooks of the Los Angeles Times illustrates with some examples of how wrong has been about Iraq.
"Saddam Hussein [is] developing weapons of mass destruction as quickly as he can," he informed Fox News in November 2001. By February 2003, McCain had upgraded Hussein's capabilities and was warning Americans that "Hussein has the ability to ... [turn] Iraq into a weapons assembly line for Al Qaeda's network."
This statement was far from truth, in fact 5 years after the entering Iraq, we still have not found any weapons of mass destruction. Instead of acknowledging a mistake, McCain and the GOP have shifted the debate to Hussein could and would have developed weapons of mass destruction, if allowed to.
"We're not going to get into house-to-house fighting," he scoffed to Wolf Blitzer in 2002. "We're not going to have a bloodletting." In fact, by March 2003, McCain was positively giddy with Rumsfeldian enthusiasm: "There's no doubt in my mind ... we will be welcomed as liberators."
This would be excusable from 23 year old with no military experience but McCain made these claims so it is not okay. How can someone who claims to be knowledgeable about the military? Because, McCain, like Bush, is incompetent and would not know the difference between Iraq and Iran if someone did not spoon feed him the talking points.
When it came to predicting the sectarian conflicts that have wracked Iraq since we "liberated" it, McCain was equally off target. "There's not a history of clashes that are violent between Sunnis and Shias," he explained confidently on MSNBC in April 2003, "so I think they can probably get along."
There is absolutely NO excuse for this claim. In fact, all McCain had to do was open up a textbook about the inner conflicts that Iraq experienced in the 50s. Oh wait, he was alive during that decade, perhaps he should have been more keen on foreign affairs. The ongoing issue between Sunnis and Shias is not new, in fact it has been a source of problems for a while.
Brooks offers other examples of how off McCain is from reality. How can McCain be so wrong about Iraq? How can someone with the "decorated" military service be so unqualified when it comes to war- in Iraq? But, that is not as important as how can half of the country still buy into his crap and support him? Am I suppose to entertain the idea that Americans are just as incompetent as McCain? Perhaps, stupid people do deserve a stupid President, but not again . . . four more years of this nonsense is uncalled for.
