Retired Air Force General McPeak Bashes McCain

Hey Sandra, here's a present for you. McCain can't win even on National Security. All these retired Generals are itching to get on the record about what is wrong with Bush/McCain War in Iraq.

Retired Air Force General Tony McPeak, a national security adviser to Barack Obama, dropped the hammer on Sen. John McCain today, telling the Washington Times, "It doesn't take very long to uncover national security issues that McCain is weak on...For McCain to think he has a monopoly on virtue in the national security issue is going to be shown a pretty flimsy idea very quickly."

How flimsy and how quickly? As it turns out, very. And critically, McPeak attaches himself to the Obama campaign as someone who got Iraq right.

Or this one?

General Ricardo Sanchez's Book Slams Bush, Iraq Handling

Getting lost in the media furor over McClellan's memoir is the new autobiography of retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, the onetime commander of U.S. troops in Iraq, who is scathing in his assessment that the Bush administration "led America into a strategic blunder of historic proportions."

Among the anecdotes in "Wiser in Battle: A Soldier's Story" is an arresting portrait of Bush after four contractors were killed in Fallujah in 2004, triggering a fierce U.S. response that was reportedly egged on by the president.

During a videoconference with his national security team and generals, Sanchez writes, Bush launched into what he described as a "confused" pep talk:

"Kick ass!" he quotes the president as saying. "If somebody tries to stop the march to democracy, we will seek them out and kill them! We must be tougher than hell! This Vietnam stuff, this is not even close. It is a mind-set. We can't send that message. It's an excuse to prepare us for withdrawal."

For those of you who wonder why some remain anonymous or wait to tell the truth about the Bushes, PLEASE keep this quote in mind.

"we will seek them out and kill them! We must be tougher than hell! This Vietnam stuff, this is not even close. It is a mind-set. "

Thank you my friend. I'm so glad this is coming out.

It was reported in Australia's news today that Australia is bringing all their troops home from Iraq and the government is now considering allowing John Howard, the former PM, to be tried in International court for war crimes. Would that we Americans would have the cajones to do the same to our President!

Teresa

It's a darn good thing that past POTUS didn't mind meeting with countries we had no ties with otherwise we would not be having an Olympics in China. In fact we might still be fighting some past wars.

Poll: McCain Is Wrong, U.S. Should Engage Iran Diplomatically

And still another little gem for you:

More Headaches for McCain’s Camp

For weeks now, John McCain's presidential campaign has faced awkward questions about the outside activities of several top advisers. Add one more name to the list: former Texas senator Phil Gramm, McCain's longtime friend and one of his five campaign co-chairs. (A sixth, former congressman Tom Loeffler, quit recently after NEWSWEEK reported on his lobbying work for Saudi Arabia.) According to McCain spokeswoman Jill Hazelbaker, the co-chair position affords Gramm "broad input into the structure, financing and conduct of the campaign." She added that Gramm, who has a doctorate in economics, is also "a valued voice on economic policy." Gramm is not a paid McCain adviser, but his day job—vice chairman of a U.S. division of Zurich-based financial giant UBS—could pose new tests for a candidate who has promised high ethics standards and ditched advisers who failed to meet them.

Weren't we having a discussin about ethics somewhere? (very big grin)

You are absolutely right! In 1998 when I wrote the priorities it was China and Russia who we were planning on invading. Now in 2008 we are facing the entire Middle East who we have been told are terrorists without exception.

If they were we would not have survived their further attacks. We buy their oil and they would not want to lose our purchasing power. Same with China we buy their products and they are now making more money than ever before.

We need a balance in America where we can communicate with all nations and not in that arrogance that Bush struts when he looks into their eyes. He is naive, stupid and dangerous to America.

We must have security departments to work for the American People not some idiot who thinks he's God. We need a workable defense system that we do not have at this time.

We need fair trade agreements that do not require our armed services to protect. I hate to use the term "Fair and Balanced" but we need a President who respects both Parties or hopefully all three in the next election. We still have the power through our votes. The problem is getting the voters to know right from wrong.

I will add that to my Priority list! I am keeping notes on what the CHBers want. We must clean up the laws that keep us from going to war without proof of need. We have a lot to do.

I'm be visited tomorrow by a man from Phoenix who has a petition to get Libertarian candidates on the ballot for Arizona State Legislature positions and I will absolutely sign for the list he presents. You know, I believe politics start at a local level.

Yes, I agree entirely, secure and defend the Constitution/bill of Rights and then move forward to secure our Diplomatic/Economic stature among nations.

I find it hard to blame any country which trusts us not and wants to stick it in our ear.

This cockamamie bunch in power have left a terrible stench and Leaders world wide are wary, rightfully so, of our intent and purpose.

When we have cleaned our own backyard and have shown trustworthiness to our own people maybe the playing field will level once more around the globe.

I abhor the idea of guilt by association, but this is where we have been led. This path of usurpation in the guise of democratization makes us look very, very bad.

It is to the point now that I feel the need to personally apologize to the rest of the world for being an American.

Fat lot of good it would do without real change coming from our governance and thats what really hurts.

The powers that be will not change unless we demand it and then stick to our principles.

It may sound like small potatoes Sandra but I feel a good starting point of organization would be a national strike, to include planes, trains, and autos.One week for starters then if need be, an amplified effort through community and Statewide participation.

Many I encounter through the course of the day agree it has to hurt both ways to be effective, but are willing to listen.

D.C. would most certainly hear us if We the People force them too.

Thanks for the place to ante up my 2 cents.

Bryan, you 2 cents are a valuable as gold

I don't know who to credit with this so my apologies for not giving an author but it feels appropriate in these times.It's posted on my clubhouse wall.

Here I sit in all this rubble, I should have taken that job on the HUBBLE.

It's so very difficult to focus on the future when the past has left us wanting.

But as Roseannadanadan said,"It's always something". SNL.

I think we are strong enough to pull out of this tailspin by recognizing that being honest and forthright about the many blunders our policies have visited upon the world is the fist step, and to let the outsiders know of our resolve to never visit this type of insanity on mankind again will ever be the order of the day.

Just one little ride into space is all I ask.

Me too Bryan. I spend a lot of time on the Science Channel and often wish I could leave this troubled earth and find total peace. I hope and believe you are right about our being able to pull out of the tailspin.

What worries me is the change in my attitudes. I have a poster who continues to follow me like a hungry puppy but she is not sweet and cute but filled with anger when I show up on several forums. We also have a very mysterious man who never gives much of his point of view but has caught my attention and apparently hers. I laid out a scenario about how handsome and sexy this man was and we haven't seen much of her as she is checking every search site on the internet. I have no idea what he looks like and am having a selfish chuckle over this deed.

Obama was just declared officially the Presumptive Democratic candidate and my Republican pals are shrugging it off as a fluke. I think he would make a grand President but I do not trust the GOP or Clinton to let it happen. It may be the first honest and decent thing we have seen in America since 2000 or before.

Contact Richard Branson of Virgin Space and if you have some money he might just take you along on his space ship. I'm too old but I am not too old to dream. I have my books of Carl Sagan and the Science Channel which is going Green I think tomorrow. Wonderous things for me to learn.