Countdown Special Comment: The Unimportance of Being John McCain

You have attested to: a fairly easy success; an overwhelming victory in a very short period of time; in which we would be welcomed as liberators; which you assured us would not require our troops stay for decades but merely for years; from which we could bring them all home, since you noted many Iraqis resent American military presence; in which all those troops coming home will also stay there, not being injured, for a hundred years; but most will be back by 2013; and the timing of their return, is… not… that… important.

That, Senator McCain, is context.

And that, Senator McCain, is madness.

Keith, in the above sentence, does very well to point out how amorphous and ever changing McCain's stance on the Iraq war truly is. I am simply astonished that anyone can argue that this man knows what he's talking about on this subject as nothing he says is even remotely coherent.

Tags: Olbermann, John McCain, US election 2008, Iraq war