McCain-Why Should Our Troops Die For People Who CUT AND RUN?

We all know that McCain is happy to leave our troops in Iraq for the next 100 years to secure the "FREEDOM" of the Iraqi people. We also know the McSame-McBush doctrine in Iraq. When their troops stand up, ours will stand down. Well, at every opportunity, instead of standing up, the Iraqi troops are STANDING DOWN. So please Mr. McWar, explain to us here in America why our troops should continue to die for a people unwilling to stand up and fight for themselves?

Joao Silva for The New York Times

Iraqi soldiers outside a U.S. patrol base after their desertion.

By MICHAEL R. GORDON

Published: April 16, 2008

BAGHDAD — A company of Iraqi soldiers abandoned their positions on Tuesday night in Sadr City, defying American soldiers who implored them to hold the line against Shiite militias.

Desertions in Sadr City

Joao Silva for The New York Times

Iraqi soldiers on Tuesday after abandoning their posts on a joint mission with American troops in the Sadr City area of Baghdad. More Photos »

The retreat left a crucial stretch of road on the front lines undefended for hours and led to a tense series of exchanges between American soldiers and about 50 Iraqi troops who were fleeing.

Capt. Logan Veath, a company commander in the 25th Infantry Division, pleaded with the Iraqi major who was leading his troops away from the Sadr City fight, urging him to return to the front.

“If you turn around and go back up the street those soldiers will follow you,” Captain Veath said. “If you tuck tail and cowardly run away they will follow up that way, too.”

Captain Veath’s pleas failed, and senior American and Iraqi commanders mounted an urgent effort to regain the lost ground. An elite Iraqi unit was rushed in and with the support of the Americans began to fight its way north.

McCain's General Betray Us Trots Out Same Old Eight Track of Lies on Capital Hill

Just in from Political Dirt Bag:

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

General Betray Us Trots Out Same Eight Track Tape On Capital Hill

Let's be honest...what we got today on Capital Hill was MORE OF THE SAME, the same eight track tape played once again as the message remains the same. We are making progress, but it is fragile, and we need more time. We have heard General Betray Us and the Pentagon's lies over and over again, the same answers repackaged over and over again as they keep pushing the marker further down the road...this time, they want no troop withdraws through this summer....BULL SHIT, the time has come to pull the plug on Iraq.

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Petraeus recommends troop pause

AP - 20 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - The U.S. general commanding the Iraq war called Tuesday for an open-ended suspension of U.S. troop withdrawals this summer, asserting that an overly rapid withdrawal would jeopardize recent security gains.

John McCain Re-Introduces Himself and His Story to America-Who Cares?

OK, John McCain is down in Meridian Mississippi (I spent time there in the Navy) to start his national tour to re-introduce himself and his story to America...WHO CARES? Now, for those of you who have been living under a bridge for the past 30 plus years, let me give you the Readers Digest condensed version.

John McCain grows up as a military brat, a spoiled rotten Admiral's boy.

John McCain enlists, starts fucking whores and sluts, boozing it up and crashing airplanes.

John McCain crashes another plane (says it was shot) and gets captured, becomes a POW. He returns home, and with the help of his high brass family is propped up as a major hero of the Vietnam War.

Realizing his military career had reached a dead end, mostly because of his own failings, John McCain leaves the military.

John McCain meets hot assed, rich slut in Hawaii, starts banging her while still married.

John McCain abandons his first wife, who had become a cripple while he was a POW, marries the rich slut.

Keating Five...nothing more needs to be said.

Former slut, now respected wife of Senator gets caught stealing drugs from her own charity, Senator McCain uses his clout to get her charges dismissed.

Years go by as he has an unremarkable, steady as you go career in Washington on the tax payers dollar.

Loses to Bush in 2000 Presidential Election.

The End.

McCain Kicks Off "Mission Accomplished" Trip Across America To Win Independent Voters

Senator McCain made a huge tactical error in his bid to win the White House when he visited Iraq with his two favorite croonies from the Senate during the week marking the five year anniversary of Bush's Wrong War. Now in kicking off his Presidential Fund Raising race across America, McGrandpa McCain is about to make yet another major blunder as he attempts to appeal to independents. Seems he will be kicking off this McBush fund raising trip with a town hall meeting out in the San Diego area just scant miles from where Bush's now infamous address on the aircraft carrier wherein he egotistically strode to the mike and announced, "major combat operations" in Iraq are over while a "Mission Accomplished" banner waved behind him. Brilliant choice there Poodle McCain.

Are Bush, McCain and General Betrayus Setting Stage for War With Iran?

Two news items over on the BCC site caught my attention. One reason for this, is the lack of any real overage here in America as the Iraq war seems to have fallen off the media network radar as the wrong war drags on, and the death toll on all sides mounts. The second reason these two articles caught my eye, is it gives credence to the BUZZ that George W. Bush will invade Iran, or take some time of military action against them before the fall elections. Such a tactic would burnish Senator McCain's claim that we need a WAR TIME President in office during these troubling times...after all, if we open up a new front with Iran, Israel as our partner, we all know that "All Hell" is going to break loose.

Sure some will howl at me bringing up General Betrayus again, but what else would you call a man that refuses to tell the whole truth, seems to now be contributing to George W. Bush's beating of the war drums against Iran. Cut our loses and bring our troops home before War Hawks like McCain and Bush trash the American Economy and throw us into a second Depression.

Iran 'behind Green Zone attack'

Gen Petraeus said he was surprised how Sunnis turned against al-Qaeda The most senior US general in Iraq has said he has evidence that Iran was behind Sunday's bombardment of Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone. Gen David Petraeus told the BBC he thought Tehran had trained, equipped and funded insurgents who fired the barrage of mortars and rockets. He said Iran was adding what he described as "lethal accelerants" to a very combustible mix. There has as yet been no response from Iran to the accusations. The rockets that were launched at the Green Zone yesterday, for example... were Iranian-provided, Iranian-made rockets Gen David Petraeus In response to the news that 4,000 US military personnel have now been killed in Iraq, he said it showed how much the mission had cost but added that Americans were realistic about it.

Hamas 'wrecking Mid-East peace'

Mr Cheney (L) said both sides need to make concessions US Vice-President Dick Cheney has said Palestinian militant group Hamas, along with Iran and Syria, is trying to torpedo the Middle East peace process. Mr Cheney made the remarks after breakfast with Israeli PM Ehud Olmert, as he ended a tour of the Middle East. He met Palestinian leaders on Sunday, saying both sides needed to make painful concessions to achieve peace. A Palestinian state was long overdue, he said, but militant rocket attacks against Israel jeopardised this. "There is evidence that Hamas is supported by Iran and Syria and they are doing everything they can to torpedo the peace process," Mr Cheney said.