The Blame Game

Just watched Senator Mccain on CSPAN speaking on the floor of the U.S. Senate about the War in Iraq, and he was making a good point that if the U.S. pulls back to the big bases, Iraq will look like it did back in 2006, with 3000 Iraqi civillians dying every month.

In doing this he referred to the failed strategy of the previous 3 1/2 years as the "Rumsfeld-Casey" plan, referring to the former Secretary of Defense and the former top General for Iraq who over saw the war plans for most of the war up until early 2007.

This was a thunderbolt statement for me, I was blown away when I heard this. Here we have, for the first time, someone high in the Government blaming the military for the failures in Iraq. And McCain to boot. He of the Hanoi Hilton, the infamous POW prison during the Viet Nam War.

I dont know how else one can interpret that statement. He just blamed the top military commanders for the debacle that is Iraq, while of course shielding the politicians from any blame. Mr. McCain ofcourse being a member of the rubber stamp party for Mr. Bush. But McCain says he was opposed to this strategy the whole time. Well John, why didnt you speak up? Why not call for some committee meetings and get to the bottom of what is going on?

Now, after all the deaths, all the bombings, all the IED's, the American people demand real progress, you find your voice? And with that voice, you blame the Generals? Maybe you should have brought a mirror to the floor of the Senate instead of a map of Iraq.