McCain stuck out his neck politically to be right on Iraq. For all of his many flaws, he deserves credit for that. Everyone thought McCain was committing political suicide by pushing for the surge.
McCain is my senator. I loath him. He hates conservatives. Being right once in ten times isn’t admirable, and being stubborn isn’t courage. McCain doesn’t have the brain cells or integrity to be courageous on ANY issue. Just mean.
I was finishing my career working operational testing during the Rumsfeld era. My boss summarized Rummy’s ideas on acquisition as, “We’ll give you a bag of money. You’ll give us dog poop. We’ll give you another bag of money to fix it. You’ll give us dog poop. We’ll give you ANOTHER bag...”