It looks fairly certain that John McCain will be the Republican candidate for President this year. While I admire the man and his courage, there are a few things that trouble me about the possibility of him being president the foremost being that he is a "hawk."
I have heard over and over his statement about going to the "gates of hell" to get Osama Bin Laden. Is this rhetoric to fire up people to follow him like our current president did with Sadam Hussein to get us into the Iraq War? Or does he truly believe that the number one priority of America is to kill one man?
His buzz words are "islamic extremists." I listened to a woman stumble over these words last night as she was being interviewed for the news. She was repeating the phrase for the reporter to explain why John McCain would be a good president. She sounded like a robot conditioned by fear.
Side note. There is a spy sattelite the size of a bus hurtling down to earth. It will strike somewhere in North America sometime this month or next. Now that frightens me. They will not even know where it will land until 30 minutes before it hits. Shouldn't we be on some kind of alert about this? Yet, whenever the Republicans want to herd the sheep into their corral, "Islamic extremists and terrorists" are trotted out in the news to strike fear in our hearts. That makes me think it is just a ploy while the things that can really hurt us like the glaciers melting, satellites falling to earth, Pakistan imploding are mentioned casually before going on to breaking news about Britney Spears.
But I digress. McCain is ready and willing for America to stay in Iraq for 100 years. This is unacceptable to me. Yes, it is personal because I have a nephew serving his country as a Marine in Iraq. I want him to come home sound and alive to his wife and four small children now. I also want every American soldier there to come home soon not 100 years from now. I fear that if John McCain is elected president this will not happen.
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