McCain's Iraq cred. problem rears its head

I won't pretend to fully understand the so-called Anbar Awakening, or all of the incredibly complex situation in Iraq, but then again, I'm not running for president; John McCain is.

And I do know that this past week, McCain proved to the world (for about the dozenth time) that he doesn't have a GD clue about Iraq. You know, the country that he can't stop talking about, because he has no real clue about how to fix our problems at home.

To get something as major wrong as the Anbar Awakening, which took began in September '06, a full three months before the Surge, which was announced in January '07, is very telling about McCain's credibility.

Whenever I see McCain on TV, I hear him saying, over and over, as if his brain is set to repeat, "Barack Obama was wrong about the Surge. We are on our way to winning in Iraq." I don't know if Obama is wrong about the Surge, and neither is McCain. Right now, things look better than they did, but it's very much premature to say that we are on our way to "winning," especially because no one can really explain to me what will constitute a victory, and how we're going to get there. (Especially without a draft.)

More importantly, though - Obama may have been incorrect about a few things in Iraq, but McCain is wrong on just about everything else. He's clueless about time lines, who's killing our U.S. soldiers, etc. And the media is very kind in calling his dozens of "misstatements" "gaffes." They aren't gaffes, they are ignorance.

Nice job by Keith Olbermann of pointing out the obvious. We are very lucky to even have his show, because of our corporate dominated, (mostly) right-wing media. I'm just glad that lies like this get exposed on an almost-nightly basis by him, because according to most on the right, if it's not on The Drudge Report, or it doesn't appear on Fox News, or if addict Limbaugh didn't say it, then it never happened.

Oh, and CBS, by doing McCain such a huge favor, makes McCain look even more foolish by complaining about all of the favorable press that Obama is getting.