John McCain insensitive to the human cost of the war in Iraq?
Au contraire. He’s very sensitive:
“Nothing is more precious than Americans, and I know that it has caused great heartache and pain,” he said, “but I also want to tell you that I believe in the conflict in Iraq with this new strategy, we are succeeding.
“Every American is precious, every casualty is someone that pains and grieves us, no one more than a veteran,” said Mr. McCain, who spent five years as a prisoner of war during Vietnam. “But the consequences of failure would be chaos and genocide in the region.”
Maybe that’s why we don’t even bother to count the number of Iraqis killed, while estimates range in the hundreds of thousands, even a million.
Every American is precious.
Iraqis’ lives are cheap.
And it’s really “not too important” when the killing stops.
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And some cynics say it doesn’t matter who wins the presidency?
that I’m sure he thinks Obama is.
I wonder what the exchange rate is, in McCain’s eyes? Personally, I think he’d turn the whole ME into a sheet of glass if he thought he could get away with it.
Sounds familiar, actually…
in the Chris Rock movie (where Chris ran for president) that said “God bless America, and no place else.”
See it here, can’t find the other actor says that though.
I love that movie.
“God bless America, and no place else.
i thought i was keeping some sense of equilibrium this morning; wrong. fuck this nationalist thinking of McCain’s. fuck it and blow it out to sea. (apologies to sea creatures)