This diary is motivated by having to spend time in traffic this evening listening to NPR do a story on McCain's visit to the VFW today. During this somewhat predictable event, McCain once again hammered Barack on the Surge and how it "worked".
The time has come (and hopefully not gone) where Barack needs to call McShame on this BS! The Surge DID NOT work, and Barack was right to oppose it.
And it would be nice if Obama would come out and SAY so!
For too long now the right wing has controlled this discussion. First we had the phony build up to the Surge. Then we had the deployment of the troops. And the brilliance of Petraeus. And, voila, Iraq was won!
Amazing!
Only it's all BS...
Move On was right about Petraeus, he didn't represent a military solution, he represented a politic position. Barack started to call him on that while he was in Iraq, but then backed down. Hey, it is the right and the duty of the Future Commander in Chief to be clear that Petraeus would work for HIM, not the other way around.
If he thinks Gen P is full o' sh*t, SAY SO! Call him on, and let the debate begin.
This is something that Barack should have highlighted then and there, but (for whatever reason) blinked and backed down.
Then there was all of the nonsense about the "Awakening". More BS! We PAID these people to not kill us. And if the money stopped, they'd start blowing us up again. This is a disgrace!
And where is Barack? Silent. Why, why why? Call McShame and Petraeus on this! Stop taking punches!!
Now we have all of this "Iraq is on the verge of victory" stuff. What crap! We are no closer to success in Iraq than we were a year ago. The only metric we have is "number of Americans dying", and yeah, that is down. But NOTHING else in Iraq is any better. And now that the bad guys are using lots of women suicide bombers, things are starting to get worse again.
It is ALL smoke and mirrors!!!
So, where is Barack on all of this? Nowhere! I mean, seriously, dude, grow a pair!
Get out there and DEBATE this sh*t! Call a spade a spade, and let McCain know that you aren't going to let him just wander around the country like a parrot, repeating "the Surge has worked" and "Petraeus is a hero" over and over. If you can't call BS now, how do we know you'll be able to do it when you're elected.
Someone needs to stand up to this right wing agitprop!
And no more of this: "I gotta say what people want to hear to get elected" garbage! This subject is gonna keep us mired in Iraq for 10 more years if it isn't nipped in the bud NOW. And it would be nice if Barack would get his sorry butt out there and SAY SOMETHING and take the fight to these guys!!!
For Pete's sake: LEAD!!!