Sen. John McCain hit the tubes today to brag that he is the only presidential candidate touting the U.S. military build-up in Iraq as a good thing and now, says he, as a successful effort.
Until the presidential bug bit him, McCain seemed like a reasonable conservative–that is, for every good idea he tootled (reigning in campaign contributions and pointing out that TV preachers are generally con men), he snuggled up with the usual right-wing nonsensicals (against abortion, against tax reform, love those military build ups, let every citizen carry a gat).
Now he’s foot-kissing the evangelicals for votes and declaring that our army has Iraq coming into control.
McCain has to know better. There’s one test of whether Baghdad, for instance, has returned to sweetness and light. It is whether McCain or any other American, much less any other American politician, can hop off a plane at Baghdad International, grab a cab and walk around any Baghdad souk by himself.
Small chance of that. The Iraqis of whatever side would blow his brains out in a minute, or kidnap such a fool and cut his head off for a video lead-in for an a terrorist commercial.
If McCain truly thinks our pouring of 10s of thousands more troops into Iraq has poured molasses upon the fevered souls there, he should prove it: Go take a walk there without any Army or mercenary escorts, to shop for artifacts looted from the museums. And take Vice President Dick Cheney and the meathead in the White House with him.
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