McCain's beliefs on our soldiers inconsistent

One of the running themes of this blog from now until election day will be pointing out John McCain's inconsistencies (I'm being kind) on a host of issues.

The footage above is from a little while ago on Meet the Press, when Tim Russert took McCain to task for some of his past words on a U.S. Military mission abroad - in Somalia. We all know how that tragically ended, and the war was certainly mismanaged. (President Clinton often gets ridiculed for that mission, but the record shows that President Bush (41) put our troops in the country, not Clinton.)

Anyway, Russert uses McCain's words against him about Iraq, and clearly McCain doesn't like it. Too bad.

Yes, Somalia and Iraq are different in many ways, but there are some similarities, too. McCain's stance on Iraq is wrong, and has been wrong for years. It should also be noted that it differs pretty widely from American public opinion about the war, but that doesn't seem to faze him in the least. We'll see if the American public thwarts his ultimate goal in about 151 days.