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McCain is a fool on the economic stuff.
Sep 27 17:45 pm
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He is often praised for being so wise on the military stuff, the guy is in fact a war hero. I will not attack McCain on that Vietnam detail, he showed leadership while he was a POW.
But the recent surge in Iraq was only 40 thousand more US military folks, McCain always asked fore a large multiple of that what was realistic in applied boots on the ground.
Even the chiefs of staff were against a horrible 40 thousand increase because 'that leaves all military emergencies naked'.
In the end Dubya got his way, 40 thousand extra troops were deployed and for reasons the Americans do not fully understand, some kind of peace was there in Iraq.
In short: McCain never understood what numbers deployed were inside the realm of reality and now he is constantly portrayed as the 'big military wizard'.
He isn't, this is no endorsment of Obama but on the military stuff McCain was a fool for a long time in the Iraqi equation.