The Iraq Thing

Senator John McCain can no longer be my choice for President. In speaking against the Funding Bill with Date Certain-a measure I do not support either-Senator McCain said that it was the path of surrender. My question for Senator McCain is surrrender to whom? Realistically speaking-meaning in this universe-the War in Iraq was won; Saddam's statue pulled down and all that good stuff; Saddam's neck stretched and the heads of his aides popped like the tops of soda cans, all good sport for the TV audience. Law and Order was also destroyed-oooops! To whom would one surrender, Senator McCain? At least in the Vietnam War, we had the Viet Cong and North Vietnam as the Enemy. In the Iraq Thing we don't even have that. We've got a little Al Qaida, but even Q is not much of a Enemy, since we got Mr. Z. Remember what a thrilling victory that was? We've got jihadists, gangs, militias (some of which we supported as pseudo-police for years),Shi'as, Sunnis, and Kurd groups. How can you surrender, Senator McCain? What you have emphasized is the ghastly illogic of the situation: we won, now we must continue to destroy the land and its people. Now I shall have to vote for Mitt Romney. At least he is the only Republican candidate who has been married only once. The Christian candidates have been divorced multiple times; the Mormon is faithful to his vow. The Newt Gingrich specimen went to Canossa to beg the pardon of Pope Falwell for cheating on his wife while she was dieing of cancer. Pope Falwell forgave him, and said he could not contain his oily, squealy delight at the prospect of voting for the Newt in 2008. This nation will never achieve its potential unless it recognizes the Iraq Thing for what it is.