Be afraid of President McCain
Reason
by Matt Welch
03/07
The John McCain presidency effectively began on January 10, 2007, when George W. Bush announced the deployment of five more combat brigades to Iraq. This escalation of an unpopular war ran counter to the advice of Bush’s senior military leadership, ignored the recommendations made by the bipartisan Iraq Study Group, and sidestepped the objections of the Iraqi government it was ostensibly intended to assist. But the plan was nearly identical to what the Republican senior senator from Arizona, nearly alone among his Capitol Hill colleagues, had been advocating for months: boost troop levels by at least 20,000, give coalition forces the authority to impose security in every corner of Baghdad, and increase the size of America’s overburdened standing military by around 100,000 during the next five years. By enthusiastically endorsing McCain’s approach, the lame duck president all but finished the job of anointing the senator his political successor...
https://www.reason.com/news/show/118937.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
by Matt Welch
03/07
The John McCain presidency effectively began on January 10, 2007, when George W. Bush announced the deployment of five more combat brigades to Iraq. This escalation of an unpopular war ran counter to the advice of Bush’s senior military leadership, ignored the recommendations made by the bipartisan Iraq Study Group, and sidestepped the objections of the Iraqi government it was ostensibly intended to assist. But the plan was nearly identical to what the Republican senior senator from Arizona, nearly alone among his Capitol Hill colleagues, had been advocating for months: boost troop levels by at least 20,000, give coalition forces the authority to impose security in every corner of Baghdad, and increase the size of America’s overburdened standing military by around 100,000 during the next five years. By enthusiastically endorsing McCain’s approach, the lame duck president all but finished the job of anointing the senator his political successor...
https://www.reason.com/news/show/118937.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
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