McCain is toast

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wacki,

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061231/...sa_politics_dc

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Democratic presidential hopeful
John Edwards, targeting a potential Republican rival in 2008, dubbed plans for a short-term U.S. troop increase in Iraq "the McCain doctrine," in an interview aired on Sunday.


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Whether or not it's exactly what McCain would do if he was calling the shots, he's supportive in general of the operation and is now tied to its success. You don't think he is?

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Amplify, he's supportive of a troop surge but has repeatedly said it's not the amount of troops he would have sent. Our experience in the Balkans gave us some very clear and very defined rules for nation building and peace keeping. The equations which were used there are simply not being followed in Iraq. For all intensive purposes the surge of 20K troops is still in line with Rumsfeld's "fast, mobile, high tech" army. It's a completely different playbook written by Generals that simply weren't in charge when Rumsfeld shook the pentagon to it's core. Calling a surge of 20K "McCain's surge" is like calling a motorcycle a heavy lifting vehicle. As far as I can tell McCain has never agreed with Rumsfelds playbook. Although I will admit his criticisms, while clear, are not as harsh as he could make them be. That article sucks though. Watch him talk on TV.

Read this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Cobra-II-Insid.../dp/0375422625

Rumsfeld actually wanted to invade Iraq with only 50K troops when all of the generals at the time wanted half a million. There's a reason why Tommy Franks bailed as soon as the invasion was over.