Mccain was bigger cheerleader for Iraq, than Bush/Wolfowitz

Let's not forget what actually happened 5 years ago and who did what to enable it. Shining light on this truth is still the primary weapon against McBush.

This 2002 USA Today story is very instructive. From McCain's last major European tour.

Sen. John McCain warned Saturday that the USA is prepared to make Iraq its next target in a widening military campaign against global terrorism.

When it comes to the biggest issue facing this nation. McCain IS and has always been McBush. Same global arrogance. Same disregard for long-term consequences, same over-reliance on violence and intimidation, same us/them mentality and hubris.

In tough talk that provoked objections from some European allies and from former Cold War foes China and Russia, McCain said, "A day of reckoning is approaching. Not simply for Saddam Hussein but for all members of the Atlantic community whose governments face the choice of ending the threat we face every day from this rogue regime or carrying on as if such behavior ... were somehow still tolerable."

If anything, he went beyond the Wolfowitz-Rove engineered political "sales job" of the time. He did not hold back his neocon views.

The senator's pugnacious remarks went beyond President Bush's State of the Union address last week, in which the president branded Iraq, Iran and North Korea an "axis of evil." McCain also overshadowed Bush's hawkish deputy defense secretary, Paul Wolfwowitz, who told conference participants, "Those countries that choose to tolerate terrorism and refuse to take action will face consequences."

A McCain Presidency is nothing short of Bush's 3rd term. We must have no qualms about arguing it this way, and we can easily prove it too.