Does McCain Forget The Powell Doctrine?
By Cliff Montgomery – July 16th, 2008 The Democratic and Republican presidential nominees engaged in a bitter rhetorical battle on Tuesday over the Bush Administration’s fruitless nation-building of Iraq. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) correctly declared it to be nothing but a senseless muddle which must end as soon as possible. But Senator John McCain (R-AZ) seemed content on echoing the false reasoning which put American troops into that country for no good reason, by continuing the pretense that the invasion and occupation of Iraq is a legitimate war with an actual mission. “Iraq is not going to be a perfect place, and we don’t have unlimited resources to try and make it one,” Sen. Obama stated yesterday in a speech. The Illinois senator further pointed out that if America is finally going to get serious in tracking down and eliminating the core leadership of al-Qaeda and their Taliban allies, it must concentrate manpower and resources where our enemies are actually located, in Afghani
