A Battle is not a War
07.16.08 (9:31 pm) [edit]John McCain keeps talking about he knows how to win a war simply because he advise the president to send more troops to Iraq. 20000 more troops were sent to Iraq and the sectarian violence did decrease but now we face the problem that if we withdraw them the violence may start over again. If you listen to John McCain you would think that we won the war but it was only a battle.
He keep repeating the mantra that he knows how to win a war and nobody ask him what war did he win, he spent the entire vietnam war as a prisoner of war and he fell for the lie that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and they did not. So where did all this commander in chief potential come from?. His military records indicate that even though he flew combat missions he was never commander of a combat squadron. Does merely being a military officer automatically qualify you to be president of the U.S.?. I think not all military people have to operate within military instructions that has been handed down for eons, irregardless of your rank there is still a standing operating procedure that you must follow. There is a great difference in leading a nation and leading a military unit and they are mutually exclusive. Remember Ross Perot vice presidential running mate and Alexander Haig.