Continued insanity

So far John McCain continues to play the dutiful party hack whose obedience has earned him a shot at the highest office in the land. He has endured dirty tricks from Bush/Rove in his previous campaigns and now is rewarded with a shot at the presidency.

Sadly though he has no identity of his own but his merely a pale imitation of George Bush, a mere shadow. So far McCain has promised to continue Bush's failed occupation of Iraq. This is despite the governments own admission that 1) Iraq had nothing to do with the attacks of 9/11, 2) Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction and was not a threat to its neighbors or us (6,000 miles away), and 3) that the invasion and occupation have increased terrorism in the region and increased bad feelings towards the US all over the world.

If McCain believes that leaving Iraq is a defeat for the US, how does he define victory? And if we haven't achieved victory after 5 years, more than 4,000 dead Americans, more than 50,000 dead Iraqis and billions of dollars spent, what makes the US believe it can ever achieve it? Did we not learn anything in Vietnam?

The buzz word for both parties in this campaign has been "change" because the American people are sick and tired of George Bush's lies and failures. It seems to me that John McCain represents no change at all.

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