President Obama resists the urging from Republicans, and states that we will NOT be sending soldiers back into Iraq.

Courtesy of CNN:  

No troops to Iraq, but other options are being considered. 

That was President Barack Obama's message Friday in response to the lightning advance by Sunni militant fighters in Iraq that could threaten the government of Shiite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. 

In a statement delivered from the White House South Lawn, Obama said the United States "will not be sending U.S. troops back into combat in Iraq," but that he would be reviewing a range of other options in coming days. 

"This is not going to happen overnight," the President said, adding that unless Iraq fixes its internal political problems, short-term military help from the United States won't make much difference. 

Of course this comes in defiance of those who are banging the war drums and urging the President to send more of our young men and women back into the Iraq meat grinder. 

In fact John McCain is now claiming that the war was won, until the Obama administration lost it again: 

"We had it won," McCain said. "Gen. [David] Petraeus had the conflict won, thanks to the surge. If we had left a residual force behind, we would not be facing the crisis we are today. Those are fundamental facts ... The fact is, we had the conflict won. We had a stable government ... But the president wanted out, and now, we are paying a very heavy price. And I predicted it in 2011."

Of course that it ridiculous, and John McCain knows it.

No matter how long American troops stayed the sectarian violence was ALWAYS going to ratchet back up once they were gone, and the Sunnis were never forget that they were in power before the Americans came along and handed the country to their hated adversaries the Shiites.

And besides America left Iraq, because Iraq asked us to leave. So what choice did we really have?

If McCain had his way we would have troops in Iraq for forty or fifty more years until the generation that remembered the war had all died out.

Of course if Senator McCain had his way we would currently be fighting at least four or five more wars. He always reminds me of Lt. Colonel Bill Kilgore from "Apocalypse now:"

"I love the smell of napalm in the morning."

And apparently John McCain loves the smell of America soldiers dying.