John McCain drank deeply from the NoeCon's KoolAid in 2002 as his speech in favor of the Iraq War Resolution shows:
It will answer the fundamental question about America's purpose in the world, whether we perceive our beliefs to be uniquely American principles or universal values, for if they are so dear to us that we believe all people have the right to enjoy them, we should be willing to stand up for them, wherever they are threatened.
It will reveal whether we are brave, and wise or reluctant self-doubting,
and in retreat from a world that still, in its cruelest corners, possesses a merciless hostility to our values and interests. It will test us, as did September 11, except that we can choose to engage the enemy on our terms rather than wait for the battle to be brought to us.
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McCain completely buys into the NeoCon's bizarre theory to democratize the region through force of arms in Iraq.
It is a question of whether preemptive action to defeat an adversary whose designs would imperil our vital interests is not only appropriate but moral and whether our morality and security give us cause to fire the first shot in this battle. It will help deter-mine whether the greater Middle East will progress toward possession of the values Americans hold to be universal, or whether the Arab and Islamic worlds will be further influenced by a tyrant whose intent is to breed his own virulent anti-Americanism in all who fall under his influence, and use that influence to hurt us gravely.
Of course our invasion of Iraq is the very thing that has fueled more virulent anti-Americanism than Saddam could have dreamed of sowing. 100,000 dead Iraqis and Abu-Grieb have showed the world that American actions in Iraq have little relation to the values "Americans hold to be universal".
It will reveal whether we are brave, and wise or reluctant self-doubting,
and in retreat from a world that still, in its cruelest corners, possesses a merciless hostility to our values and interests. It will test us, as did September 11, except that we can choose to engage the enemy on our terms rather than wait for the battle to be brought to us.
McCain also shares their view of Saddam's Iraq as a urgent military threat to the region, then a couple a couple of paragraphs later he admits that Iraq's neighbors do not view Iraq as a military threat, and oppose an American attack on Iraq.
Our regional allies who oppose using force against Saddam Hussein warn of uncontrollable popular hostility to an American attack on Iraq. But what would really be the effect on Arab pop-ulations of seeing other Arabs liberated from oppression?
Well John we've suffered from the popular hostility to an American attack on Iraq throughout the region and the rest of the world for the last 5 years thanks to your invasion.
Playing the fear card is a MaCain specialty.
He has developed stocks of germs and toxins in sufficient quantities to kill the entire population of the Earth multiple times. He has placed weapons laden with these poisons on alert to fire at his neighbors within minutes, not hours, and has devolved authority to fire them to subordinates. He develops nuclear weapons with which he would hold his neighbors and us hostage.
Did McCain bother to read the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq before making that speech? I think not, someone should ask him.
Here's McCain cites Saddam's imaginary nuclear program to justify a rush to war, then characterizes the opponents of invading Iraq as Saddam's dupes.
His calculated ambiguity about his willingness to accept a new inspections regime are intended to stave off military attack until such time as he is able to deter it through deployment of an Iraqi nuclear weapon. He is using opponents of war in America, including well intentioned individuals who honestly believe inspections represent an
alternative to war, to advance his own ends, sowing divisions within our ranks that encourage reasonable people to believe he may be sincere.
McCain ridicules the war's opponents emphasis on inspections as being an impractical alternative to the invasion and occupation of Iraq.
War on Iraq has proved to be the most impractical alternative of all.
Not willing to admit that the Iraq War was a mistake, McCain would compound his mistake by prolonging the occupation. Even worse McCain buys into to the same sort of NeoCon deionization of Iran as he did on Iraq in 2002. McCain's Iraq War Resolution speech demonstrated his poor judgment and lack of understanding in 2002, and he continues to demonstrate his poor judgment and lack of understanding of the Middle East in 2008.