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McCain Challenges the Democrats Honesty in nonbinding Resolution
John McCain called bull on Democrats nonbinding resolution yesterday claiming they are being "intellectually dishonest."
He stated during an appearance on ABC, ""I don't think it's appropriate to say that you disapprove of a mission and you don't want to fund it and you don't want it to go, but yet you don't take the action necessary to prevent it . . . In other words, this is a vote of no confidence in both the mission and the troops who are going over there."
McCain has the most to lose if the troop surge does not work and Democrats know this. The nonbinding resolution is nothing more than an insurance policy against John McCain's run at the presidency. Currently, McCain can not be faulted for the miserable failures in Iraq as the administration went against his advice and went into the country with too few troops. Now that the administration is belatedly considering pushing more troops into Iraq, it serves McCain's political head up for examination.
Democrats in essence are attempting to bind McCain to the surge in case it fails. A surge that maintains the status quo or fails will be a trump card they can leverage to show that McCain's plan did not work. Democrats may not be intellectually dishonest, but they are definitely being strategically political in their maneuvers for the White House.
It would be very fortunate for the country if they could turn even a small percentage of that strategic intellectualism towards coming up with a better plan for the country, however that has always been the problem for Democrats. They can unite to defeat Republicans, but they can never unite to help the country as they are torn about from the inside by competing interests from organized labor on one hand to environmentalists on the other.
Voters may end up with the same choice they have had for several decades in 2008. The choice between Democrat gridlock with no plans and a Republican plan staggering under the weight of being wrong for 8 years straight.
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