The "Surge" Will End McCain's Presidential Bid

[Jacobin]

McCain made a calculus that the ISG would prevent Bush* from adding troops. He knows the war is lost and that we are going to leave, only a matter of when, not if. McCain was using the 'add 30,000 troops to win' talking point to be able to say "if only they had listened to me we would have won."

No one in his right mind believes that adding a few thousand troops will do anything but buy Smirk some more time NOT to deal with the catastrophe.

However, when the 30,000 more troops are added and we get more of the same...POOF, there goes McCain's 'solution' to 'win' the war.

All the while of course, our soldiers and the IRaqis are targets of mayhem.

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[Warren Stupidity]

2. Perhaps.

However it seems like McCain was the leading edge of a well coordinated (rovian) confusion campaign to counter the november mandate and ISG backup to de-escalate in Iraq. This weekend we have seen the full offensive, with the War Party out on all fronts talking up their ESCALATION plan, all using the same confusion meme "SURGE".

The only good thing about this is that the War Party moles in the Democratic Party have been called to action and are all out meme-catapulting on orders. Watch and take notes.

[rurallib]

3. When it starts to go bad he'll claim he was against it.

[SoFlaJet]

4. A Prayer....

Dear God,
Thank you for making John McCain the probable candidate for the republican party in '08.It will be nice to have control of both houses of congress AND the presidency.

[malaise]

5. That and his call to go after the

Sunnis. McCain is going nowhere in a hurry.

[salin]

7. McCain has already set in motion, a series of actions

that will contribute to the end of his Presidential bid.

The image of his 'birthday celebration' with W - while the Katrina disaster was unfolding - is indelible in the public psyche.

His pandering to Fallwell and the religious right - counters the very image that made him appealing to many voters in 2000.

His 'anti-torture' stance was seriously eroded when bushco pushed through legislation this fall (to try to create a case for the midterms that "only the GOP can keep "you the voter" safe...) that essentially gave legal cover for torture in the name of national security.

His pandering on anti-gay marraige (supported the losing AZ ballot initiative) erodes any sense that he was "Goldwateresque".

And now add surge - and phhhhht... the beginning sound of the flame on the wick of a candle representing his presidential aspirations sputtering out of oxygen and fizzling and sputtering out.

[opihimoimoi]

9. The Photo of McCain humping Bushies leg is his KILLER...

He had revealed his inadequacies right there for all to see....

A Flawed Idea he is...

[americanstranger]

10. Didn't St. McCain only recommend 20,000 troops?

I think the extra 10K troops is a bit of (pardon the expression) dick-swinging on Bush's part.

Bush still needs to prove that he's the biggest macho manly man in DC - by upping the ante on getting other people's kids killed.

- as

[applegrove]

11. Perhaps the surge is to push the bombmakers into hiding..then the

USA will leave overnight..saying..hell it was quiet when we left..this civil war has nothing to do with us? Just a wild guess :shrug: