Or should that be ‘McCain: Bat-Shit Crazy‘?

McCain: “I’m saying it took us a long time to recover from losing a war, didn’t it?“

In McCain’s mind, the thousands of deaths, mutilations, amputations, permanent mental disorders, …etc., that occurred during the Vietnam war can’t even begin to compare to the real tragedy of that war - losing. With such obvious disregard for human life, this man should never be allowed to become president. He should not even be a U.S. Senator.

Vietnam vets to vote on Iraq troop surge

WASHINGTON - Four of the senators who will vote next week on putting more troops in Iraq bear the scars of another war in another time, in a place called Vietnam. Three will vote against sending more troops. One will vote the other way.

John McCain, a former Navy fighter pilot, was captured by the Vietnamese, tortured and imprisoned for more than five years. Knowing what it’s like to have fought before and lost, he’s with President Bush on sending 21,500 more troops to Iraq.

Chuck Hagel, an infantryman in Vietnam, was seriously wounded by an enemy mine explosion beneath the armored personnel carrier he and his brother were in. He opposes the troop increase.

So does Senate newcomer Jim Webb, an ex-Marine who speaks Vietnamese, who opposed the Iraq war from the outset and campaigned for the Senate wearing the combat boots of a son who recently went off to the war.

“Welcome to hell,” he wrote in March 2003, the month of the U.S. invasion. “Many of us lived it in another era.”

Webb, 60, a Democrat from Virginia, was wounded while commanding a Marine rifle company during some of Vietnam’s bloodiest fighting, in the An Hoa Basin west of Danang. He had shrapnel lodged in his left knee, left arm, back of the head and right kidney. Webb said the experience changed him.

“I was probably older when I was 24 than I am right now,” he said years after the war.

John Kerry, a Vietnam veteran as well as a Vietnam war protester, also opposes sending more troops into Iraq.

Senators next week are to consider a nonbinding measure expressing disagreement with Bush’s plan to augment the forces in Iraq.

All four of the decorated, one-time warriors, the most outspoken of the Senate’s Vietnam-era military veterans, have brought their experiences and passion about Vietnam to a debate that is already packed with emotion.
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McCain, 70, a Republican senator from Arizona making his second presidential run, has taken his and the country’s painful lessons from Vietnam into the Iraq debate.

“I’m saying it took us a long time to recover from losing a war, didn’t it?” McCain demanded of a fellow Vietnam veteran, Army Lt. Gen. David Petraeus, at a hearing on Petraeus’ nomination to be top U.S. commander in Iraq.

“Yes, sir,” Petraeus replied.

Source: Yahoo! News