(Bob Gregg, 8:54 am) (Posted to: Politics)
2008-09-28: McCain’s huge Iraq mistake
There are some times in a debate when your opponent unknowingly lets his guard down. When that happens, you have to pounce and score some points. Sure enough, during last Friday’s debate, there was a really obvious moment when John McCain uttered something really unbelievable; but Obama let it slip away.
Obama was talking about how his view of the Iraq war differs from McCain’s, because Obama believes we never should have gone in there in the first place. And McCain’s response, with a bit of a sneer, was this:
“The next president of the United States is not going to have to address the issue as to whether we went into Iraq or not.”
Oh, but he’s so, SO wrong. That is in fact THE critical issue for the next Commander-in-Chief: whether he would be foolish enough to repeat the mistake of Iraq, or whether he would recognize that it was a mistake and learn from it. McCain flat-out refuses to acknowledge that Iraq - the biggest foreign-policy mistake in perhaps the entire history of the republic - was a mistake at all, so he’s clearly not fit to be Commander-in-Chief. Period. Obama should have jumped all over this. Instead, it slid silently by and was never directly addressed.