Thanks to Bush and 30,000 new troops, you can put a fork in McCain.

[Pale Blue Dot]

I believe that McCain made a calculated risk when he called for increased troop levels in Iraq a few weeks ago. He reasoned that due to increasing opposition to the war, the likely results of the ISG, and the fact that we don't really have more troops to commit, the chances of his "idea" being implemented were slim to none. He could go into the 2008 Presidential race claiming that if we had just followed his plan everything would be better in Iraq.

Once again, he miscalculated how bat-shit crazy Bush is, and how willing the commander-in-chief is to get our troops killed.

Increasing troops levels in Iraq by 30,000 will not do anything except make an awful situation even worse. McCain knows, deep down inside his chicken-shit lizard brain, that there are no good options in Iraq. The war is a failure no matter what, something that he was cynically trying to parlay into a McCain presidency.

Now, however, it will be McCain's strategy that fails. As it does, McCain knows that he will be left with nothing but blood on his hands and his presidential hopes dying on the streets of Baghdad.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

1. You'd think two nutjobs like McCain and Bush could predict each other's moves better.

[hippiechick]

5. I think Bush (maybe not so) secretly hates McCain ...

... look at the dirty-deeds done by the Bush camp in the 2000 primary campaign ...

How does that relate to this? Not sure, exactly, but it almost seems like if there's any way Lil' Boots can spite McCain & harpoon his chances/reputation, he'll go out of his way to do so.

[kentuck]

2. Naw, they always have an excuse...

They will simply say that they were so close and Congress pulled the rug out from under them...

[Pale Blue Dot]

3. I don't think that will work this time.

The public has turned against this war in a big way.

I believe that the next president will be someone who's not on record as having supported this war. That's how much I think things have changed.

[liberal N proud]

4. McCain is just bu$h's little Nazi on this one

They had McCain mention it first that way it looked like the idea was more plausible and coming from more than one source. The though was that the public would buy this bull shit coming from such honorable people such as McCain and Bu$h.

[tabasco]

6. Don't fool yourself. McCain knew damn well and good

that he would be sending more troops in harm's way. He wasn't bluffing - he doesn't give a damn. He has gone onboard with the wacko "100-year war" crowd.

[Chef]

7. MCCain

Well, suppose Bush does an end run around McCain and sends 18,000 to 30,000 troops. I guess that in the short term, they might have some impact on the violence but, it will be hard to keep up that many if the violence continues or increases. It buys Bush some more time until it becomes apparent that it didn't work. By then, he hands the mess he made to the next (Democratic) president to pull out and get the blame for loosing Iraq. In the meantime, McCain can say that his plan would have worked if they had just sent more and his hands are clean (the old Viet Nam dodge that if we just let the military have a free reign, we would have won).