Senator McCain: One More Such 'Victory' and We're Ruined

[maddezmom]

By Eric Margolis
September 29, 2008

Senator John McCain's insistent claims that the US is winning the war in Iraq thanks to his `surge' strategy is the military-political equivalent of the junk securities that Wall Street's shady financiers have been peddling around the globe.

Take a near worthless investment, repackage it up into a fancy security, get the rating agencies to laud it, and peddle it to the unwary.

That's exactly what McCain did last Friday night with the Iraq War, and did it with skill and elan. By contrast, Sen. Barack Obama should have skewered McCain over Iraq and all the lies he supported to ignite this unnecessary conflict. But Obama's criticism of the Iraq war was tepid and ineffective, leaving McCain to capture the flag of patriotism with his reheated Cold War rhetoric.

The two candidates did reasonably well in the debates, and both emerged looking presidential. But McCain seized the jingoistic high ground by using carefully selected slogans like `victory' and `free world,' and lambasting America's favorite hobbyhorses, Iran's Ahmadinejad and Russia's Putin.

McCain's claims that the US is heading toward victory in Iraq thanks to his inspired military leadership immediately recalled the epic words of Pyrrhus, King of Eprius. In 281 BC, after defeating a Roman army at Heraclea in an extremely bloody, hard-fought battle in which his forces suffered grave losses, Pyrrhus famously exclaimed, `one more such victory and we are ruined!'


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[liberal N proud]

1. ..

:rofl:

[Gman]

2. Pretty much on the money with this one.

Obama needs to be more direct next time, quit being so polite. The debate was a draw, but a draw means an Obama win. Obama needs to be more direct and he needs to confront McCain in mid-sentence like McCain did to him.