> McCain wants the U.S. military to stay in Iraq. McCain's campaign website has this:
A greater military commitment now is necessary if we are to achieve long-term success in Iraq. John McCain agrees with retired Army General Jack Keane that there are simply not enough American forces in Iraq. More troops are necessary to clear and hold insurgent strongholds; to provide security for rebuilding local institutions and economies; to halt sectarian violence in Baghdad and disarm Sunni and Shia militias; to dismantle al Qaeda; to train the Iraqi Army; and to embed American personnel in Iraqi police units. Accomplishing each of these goals will require more troops and is a crucial prerequisite for needed economic and political development in the country......
Wow! If you want the war in Iraq to go on forever with more Americans going to fight and die there, then you should vote for McCain. McCain doesn't want a timetable to withdraw troops from Iraq, so with McCain as president, the war in Iraq will go on for your children and your grandchildren.
And this.......
According to an article in the Washington Post, our military is unprepared for domestic problems:
The U.S. military's reserves and National Guard forces are not prepared to meet catastrophic threats at home and face an "appalling" shortage of forces able to respond to chemical, biological or nuclear strikes on U.S. soil, according to a congressional commission report released today.
The problem is rooted in severe readiness problems in the reserves and National Guard forces, which would be well-suited to respond to domestic crises but suffer from a lack of personnel and training as well as a $48 billion shortage of equipment, the Commission on the National Guard and Reserves said in the report....
I wonder how McCain will respond to this report.
