As all demented people, McCain is “reality challanged”. His recurring nightmare is that the killings in Iraq might stop and ruin his Napoleonic ambition. It is a very well known fact that Luny Bits are full of great military leaders.
Let’s hope that this “catastrophy” of his does occur for the sake of all of us.

Cheapest propaganda scheme used by a no brainer !

I’m not really sure what the strategy is, supporting an unpopular war with an unpopular belief.  I guess the strategy is that two wrongs make a right. Or, maybe that acting like someone who believes strongly in something will translate into political and electoral pluses for him. The general population is against the war in my judgment, while the people who make money at these things vigorously support it. I guess he is counting on the war economy to triumph in the end; wars equals money equals jobs. I suppose in the long run this strategy is as good as any.  And, if McCain wasn’t there to carry the ball I’m sure someone else would.  For now it is his territory to defend.

“McCain’s rosy assessment of safety on Iraq’s streets after his recent visit to a Baghdad marketplace was mocked by many, prompting him to tell a television reporter that he “misspoke” and now regrets the comments.”

McCain doesn’t regret the comments, he regrets the fact that those comments point out just how out of touch he is with reality.

He is either suffering from dimmentia or he is a tool of the Party, in place to placate the extreme right wingers (32%) who still follow bu$h blindly.

Either way, I have lost any respect for him I might have had in the past. Maverick my ass, he’s a self-serving egomaniac.

I’m afraid McCain has contracted a serious case of Cheney-vitus. He needs to get his Bush pumped out!

I thought all those mirrors that distort reality were just at carnivals, there must be thousands all around Washington.
President/Commander in Chief & McCain - just doesn’t go together anymore than it does with Bu$h. John - there’s a pasture with your name on it, go now before you make a bigger fool of yourself than you already have.

A nearly decomposed corpse is trying to speak up !

So McCain is about to launch a major propaganda effort to convince the American people that “the Iraq war is winnible.”

I ask you, Mr. McCain, just what is this grand prize the American people can “win” as a result of this illegal war of aggression that has costs the lives of more than 650,000 Iraqi citizens, the expenditure of hundreds of billions of dollars that could have been spent here at home on schools, medical care and job creation, not to mention the loss of our country’s most precious resource--the lives of our sons, daughters, wifes, husbands, mothers and fathers? 

We know that you are seeking the support of Bush’s “base,” you know, the group dubya referred to as “the haves and the have mores.” We know that this “base” includes the military-industrial complex, Halliburton, Bechtel, Blackwater and the oil cartel; a base which has recognized and can expect to continue to receive huge profits the longer this imperial adventure continues, especially given the sweetheart of a deal in the form of the new oil law that is being forced upon the puppet regime in Iraq.  But, even if we are to buy into the notion that a “winnable” Iraq war is something more than a pipe dream, what is the grand prize that the average American who has lost a good paying job to outsourcing under NAFTA and the WTO, not to mention a son or daughter to this imperial adventure, can expect for “winning” in Iraq? 

Surely, Mr. McCain you are not going to tell the American people that by “winning” we eliminate Saddam’s links to WMD, al Qaeda or 9/11--the original reasons (lies) your buddies in the administration gave for launching this war of aggression.  Surely, you are not attempting to tell us we are going to win “democracy” for the Iraqi people after a sham election where Iraqis were compelled to vote on a constitution that only a select few had seen before the vote--a constitution which made permanent the Bremer edicts that privatized Iraq’s economy, placing it in the hands of the multi-national corporations who were free to fly in cheap foreign labor from South Asia, leaving most Iraqis out of a job; a constitution which prevents the supposedly “sovereign” Iraqi government from asking foreign troops (that means us) to leave and which renders contrators, like the mercenaries from Blackwater, immune from Iraq’s laws even if they murder Iraqi civilians in cold blood?

Oh, I get it.  You’re going to tell us that, despite the overwhelming evidence that invading Iraq created far greater numbers of citizens in that region of the earth who are prepared to take up arms against us, we can accomplish the illogical--that we can somehow “win” the endless, Orwellian “global war on terror?”

Perhaps it is time to step back and apply a bit of logic.  What is a terrorist?  No doubt, during America’s Revolution, there were those amongst the British who perceived the Minute Men who were picking off their troops from hidden positions as terrorists.  We now refer to them as patriots.

When you invade someone else’s nation; steal their resources, take over their economy, impose a new political system, destroy their homes, kill, capture and torture their relatives, maybe, just maybe mind you, a few of the occupied will take up arms against the occupier.  Does that mean that everyone who takes up arms against this illegal occupation is a “terrorist?”

If John McCain showed up at a party and 1) all the “ugly” lights were turned on, 2) there were dead and spilled drinks on all the tables, 3) there was stuff all over the floor, 4) there was no one else there except, 5) some guy sweeping up, 6) and another guy loading a set of drums out of the hall, McCain would just sit for hours with that ‘One Flew Over The Coo-Coo’s Nest’ smile on his face waiting for things to get better.

The propaganda minister of the Third Reich said the exact same thing in 1943 - Nazi Germany must win otherwise it would be “catastrophic”.

This shameless politician, who happens to be an ex soldier, is now betraying his own.  Political success has eaten to the core of this man to the point where the guy has completely sold out.  McCain has no drop of principle left in him.  He is worst than Mechiavelli. 

Glad that all his compromises are blowing up in his face.  He courted the extreme religious right and shamelessly genuflected before Falwell.  Despite his croynism McCain failed to impress the religious right who are not that stupid as McCain thinks they are.  They know that a man who has no integrity should never be trusted.

His straight talk express has become the new B.S. express.

This old man is completely deluded and thus knows not what he says.  He can do whatever he wants to restart his campaign.  The fact is he looks old and exahuasted with a perpetual swelling on his left cheek.  The man looks awful.  People are not going to elect such a awful, miserable old man, come what may.

Instead of siding with his own (the soldeirs) he has betrayed them. McCain does not care how many more of these young people are killed in Iraq as long as the Military Industrial complex and big oil benefits.  Exactly what Bush says and does.

McCain is going to lose big time.  Having no conscience or principal he is going to find a way to justify his own lack and betrayal.

Mr. McCain is still fighting the Vietnam war, with all the same B.S.

The truth is there right before our eyes, we don’t need Mr. McCain to tell us what were seeing.

What we need you Mr. McCain is to try and understand why we lost. It’s because we were lied to right from the start, and that’s why our policies failed, because they were based on delusions.

More manipulations will not change anything.

Poor (I am a hero) McCain, linking his political future to the Bush War! Is he that out of touch with reality? He was a potentially good candidate once!

His latest photo-op lying stunt in Baghdad was bad enough, but he just signed his own political death warrant. Define war, John - is it the same as invasion or pre-emptive strike? Define victory, John - is it when the Iraqis split into three regional governments or is it when the US runs out of troops? Define defeat, John! Is it when you lose your bid for the republican nomination because you are no longer conservative?

Ah yes, we knew John when he was well!