McMISSION ACCOMPLISHED... SOON

The far right of the GOP is still bitching about McCain; Romney is threatening to jump back in; McCain's whacky Iraq positions made him a national laughing stock at the Oscars last night; even McCain is whining he may lose because of his warlike posture. And now he's taking a page right out of Rove's Bush playbook and backing off his 10,000 years and 100 years in Iraq stance and his "lots more wars" and catastrophic injuries warnings. His latest is that the war will soon be over. I guess he'll quit singing "Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran" and start humming John Lennon.

"My friends, the war will be over soon, the war for all intents and purposes although the insurgency will go on for years and years and years. But it will be handled by the Iraqis, not by us, and then we decide what kind of security arrangement we want to have with the Iraqis."

When's he going to make up his rapidly deteriorating mind?

"I think the victory will be rapid, within about three weeks." [MSNBC, 1/28/03]

"It’s clear that the end is very much in sight... It won’t be long. It, it’ll be a fairly short period of time." [ABC, 4/9/03]

"We’re either going to lose this thing or win this thing within the next several months. [Meet The Press, 11/12/06]

"[O]ne hundred years, one thousand years, ten thousand years or until the earth collapses under global climate change.” [I don't know if he added that he'd shoot any of the neighborhood kids who walked on his lawn, but was quoted saying this today in Time, Feb. 25, 2008]

The man is colossally unfit to get anywhere near the White House. I can see why Republican Senator Thad Cochran (MS) who has worked so closely beside him for so many years said the thought of McCain as president scares him.

VoteVet has a compelling new ad online that seems to speak a lot more for the way Americans are thinking than John McCain is capable of doing: