The main thing I learned about the Bush years was weakness. "Read My Lips" Bush pulled a truce out of the hat of overwhelming victory in Operation Desert Shield and Storm and enabled Saddam Hussein to reconstitute his beaten Iraqi Revolutionary Guard without fear or repercussion. "Mission Accomplished" Bush was allowed himself to be hoodwinked by Field Marshal Don Dumbsfeld into fighting a two-front global war on terror on the cheap (in terms of forces and funding) when just about every schmo who's ever worn a uniform was cognizant of the fact that not EVERYONE would be welcoming Americans as liberators, especially after "Read My Lips" Bush pulled the liberation rug out from under them the first time we were in country.
If nothing else gets accomplished, at least John Wayne McCain will fulfill his job as Commander-in-Chief and that's really all that matters to me as some one who does not EVER want to see American blood wasted (I'm a Vietnam vet). I really could care less about other issues (i.e. health care, abortion, gay rights, gas prices or if the country goes into a depression).
Don’t take this as an attack, but I think you’re dreaming when you suggest McCain is going to do the right thing by the military.
Look, if you just look at McCain over the years, it’s impossible to come away not realizing he has been a miserable failure as a conservative. If the guy isn’t running for the top spot in the land, I can live with it. If he is, I can’t.
I can’t find more than one or two instances of John actually standing on the right side of an issue. I know his voting record is supposed to be stellar, but the real world stuff I’ve seen doesn’t reflect it one bit.
So what I am left with is the idea that this guy has much more often than not ruled from the left side of the isle. Why then do you and others think he’s going to all of a sudden be a conservative when it comes to the military? Seriously!
We haven’t seen his true colors there. He isn’t in a position of leadership with the military today, yet what we can see isn’t all that convincing.
He wants to close Guantanamo. He doesn’t support water boarding. He wants those terrorists to get a trial, and I think he means a civil trial. And yet folks tout him as a man who is going to be the consumate conservative leader of our military.
Well, if he does turn out to be one, it will be a 180 degree departure from his propensity to rule as a democrat.
I don’t believe he can do it, and once it’s too late you’re going to be sorry you every put this guy into the position of CIC. If he wants to do something negative, the RNC, the Republicans in Congress and a great many people on this forum will find a way to explain away the danger and back him.
Heaven help us if this man gets anywhere near 1600 Pennsylvania avenue. He will have no oppostion.
Opposition is the operative word for the next four years. If we don’t have it, we have nothing too sacred to be destroyed.