John McCain's determination to carry forth the unpopular and, as many foreign policy and military experts are coming to conclude, an unwinnable Iraq War policy of George W. Bush is, it seems to me, an invitation to as spectacular a political suicide as we have seen...I talked to McCain earlier today after he had arrived in Iowa from DC We talked about his upcoming visit to three-day campaign trip to New Hampshire...
...the day was the 34th anniversary of McCain's release from North Vietnamese POW hell; earlier in the day he had warned darkly of a "nightmare scenario" for the Mideast and the U.S. should the Democrats get their way with Iraq War policy. What awaits McCain, who will resurrect his Straight Talk Express bus, and hopefully the wild enthusiasm of his 2000 effort when he outworked and plainly outfunned a lackluster Bush, is that he's no longer the outsider underdog. And at the top of his platform is continuing a war path that even Republicans are turning against...it's still so early, and this proud, charismatic warrior, may prevail but it will quite a magic feat to convince the country that four years of disaster can be redeemed by what is essentially more of the same.
BEST IRAQ WAR LINE OF THE DAY was from Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill, who countered Republican claims of wanting to manage the war: he response, and I paraphrase, "it's about time somebody."
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