John McCain was calling for the Iraq invasion before it was the cool neo-con thing to do.

Thursday, January 10th 2002
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) visited the Roosevelt yesterday and shouted, "Next up: Baghdad!" from the carrier's bridge.

McCain has been pushing the administration to make Iraq and its dictator, Saddam Hussein, the next targets in the war on terrorism.

Pentagon officials and Powell have cautioned against focusing on Baghdad, but McCain said yesterday that Iraq poses "a clear and present danger" to the U.S.

So when McCain tries to get the media to give him credit for the "success" of the surge (which really did not accomplish its stated goal), it is important to remember that McCain's voice was one of the loudest demanding that we start this debacle in the first place.

So McCain also believed that we needed to attack Saddam because he had WMDs (He didn't!), and that he was working with al-Qaeda (He wasn't!), and that he had reconstituted his nuclear program (He didn't!).

And if that wasn't damning enough McCain was not only looking to target Iraq.

"I think Iraq is going to have to be considered," he said.
Other possible targets are terror cells in Somalia, Yemen, Sudan and the Philippines.

So if McCain had been in charge we would not only have two wars to fight, we may in fact be in the middle of fighting six wars from Africa all the way to the Philippines. Can you imagine how badly damaged our military would have been if he had been President?

Well if you don't get off your dead ass and start working to get Obama elected you may not have to use your imagination!