http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/1440996-surge...
excerpt from column:
If McCain felt so strongly about the need to send more troops to Iraq as early as 2003, why didn’t he challenge Bush for the 2004 Republican nomination? That would have been the mark of a true maverick. It wouldn’t have been easy, but if McCain felt so strongly about amping up operations in Iraq for so long, why did he wait another four years to take his views before the American people? Simple: He put George W. Bush’s re-election efforts and the Republican Party first, and the well-being of America’s combat troops second.
Rather than take his case to the American people, McCain hit the campaign trail to help Bush get re-elected. In the first two years of Bush’s second term, more than 1,500 American troops were killed in Iraq.
With a month to go before Election Day, McCain and his surrogate Palin cynically hide behind political phraseology, repeating that the surge worked, the surge worked and oh, by the way, did you know that the surge worked? I suppose that depends on who you talk to.
To borrow from Ernest Hemingway, “Ask the infantry and ask the dead.”
Full column:
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