Why Not McCain? Part III

I have a hundred and one reasons why not John McCain. This is the 3rd diary in a series.  Someone was asking the other day in a comment that we should start doing something like this - so I am!  Follow me below the fold:

Senator John McCain is a war monger in my opinion.  I'm paralyzed with fear when I think about his response to any type of conflict being shoot first and ask questions later.

I understand that conflicts arise and that invasions become necessary.  But, frankly, I'll go to the ground that ticks me off the most. Iraq.  Frankly, I've been opposed to this 'invasion' from the minute I heard of it.  I understood that there was a call for some type of action after 9/11 but frankly, I never thought this should be it.

In my opinion President Bush basically picked up where his father left off - he had no basis to go to Iraq. I don't believe for two minutes that there was any reason to think that those responsible for 9/11 were in Iraq either at the time we invaded or after.  I believe that this was an attempt to look like a 'hero' and invade another country, just because we could.   He wanted Saddam Hussein. He wasn't interested in whether or not he had anything to do with 9/11.  In fact, 9/11 provided nothing more than a convenient excuse for him.

In the period leading up to the war, McCain sounded, at times, less like a straight-talking maverick and more like the neoconservative former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz. "It's going to send the message throughout the Middle East that democracy can take hold in the Middle East," McCain said about the war on Fox's "Hannity & Colmes" on Feb. 21, 2003. He seemed to think Iraq would be a cakewalk, predicting that the war "will be brief."

(emphasis mine)

There was never any doubt in my mind that McCain was in favor of this invasion.  I have family who has served in the military for many years. At the time of this 'invasion' my son was a Marine (still is) and even they were questioning what they were doing there.  Brief?  How can you call what we've done there brief??  My son was there clearing the bodies of his friends from the USS Cole.  My son has lost friends, has lost classmates to this 'war' that should never have been.

Senator McCain has been in full support of this invasion and now tells everyone how the surge is working.  Senator please tell all those families of all those who have paid for this warmongering with their lives how well this worked.  

And what about this Senator:  

By June 2003, McCain was still generally in the "Mission Accomplished" camp. "I have said a long time that reconstruction of Iraq would be a long, long, difficult process," he told Fox News on June 11. "But the conflict, the major conflict is over ... The regime change is accomplished."

 If this mission was accomplished then please tell me why FIVE years later we're still there?

You don't even understand the geography of the area we're invading and yet you want us to believe you understand the geo-political implications of pulling out of Iraq? You don't even know what countries border others.

Senator McCain - you FAIL on the war - you FAIL to see where diplomacy and proper planning can avoid these things. You supported a war that should have never taken place and continue even today to support that war.  You FAIL on war Senator