“Mr. McCain was just as wrong about Basra as he was in 2003, when he said the war would be ‘brief” and be paid for by Iraqi oil revenues. Or as he was in the 1990s, when he championed extravagant State Department funding for the war instigator Ahmad Chalabi, who’d already been branded untrustworthy by the C.I.A. (The relationship between Mr. Chalabi and the former lobbyist Charles Black, now a chief McCain campaign strategist, is explored in a new book, ‘The Man Who Pushed America to War,” by Aram Roston.) . . . The difference between the Democrats and Mr. McCain going forward is clear enough: They want to find a way out of the morass, however provisional and imperfect, and he equates staying the disastrous course with patriotism. Mr. McCain's doomed promise of military ‘victory’ in Iraq is akin to Wile E. Coyote's perpetual pursuit of the Road Runner, with much higher carnage. This isn't patriotism. As the old saying goes, doing the same thing over and over again and hoping you'll get a different result is the definition of insanity.” Tet Happened, and No One Cared By FRANK RICH
Monday, April 07, 2008
Earth To McCain: Doing the Same Thing Over and Over Again and Hoping You'll Get a Different Result Is Insanity-Not Patriotism.
“Mr. McCain was just as wrong about Basra as he was in 2003, when he said the war would be ‘brief” and be paid for by Iraqi oil revenues. Or as he was in the 1990s, when he championed extravagant State Department funding for the war instigator Ahmad Chalabi, who’d already been branded untrustworthy by the C.I.A. (The relationship between Mr. Chalabi and the former lobbyist Charles Black, now a chief McCain campaign strategist, is explored in a new book, ‘The Man Who Pushed America to War,” by Aram Roston.) . . . The difference between the Democrats and Mr. McCain going forward is clear enough: They want to find a way out of the morass, however provisional and imperfect, and he equates staying the disastrous course with patriotism. Mr. McCain's doomed promise of military ‘victory’ in Iraq is akin to Wile E. Coyote's perpetual pursuit of the Road Runner, with much higher carnage. This isn't patriotism. As the old saying goes, doing the same thing over and over again and hoping you'll get a different result is the definition of insanity.” Tet Happened, and No One Cared By FRANK RICH
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While I see your point, and I, too, am very disappointed that he has supported Bush on ANYTHING at all, I still think he's a better choice than Obama. That being said, I am 100% supporting Hillary. I believe she is definitely what this country needs. GO HILLARY!!!
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