WITH IRAQ, VIETNAM'S GHOST CONTINUES TO HAUNT MCCAIN

We've heard it all before from Bush and the Republicans: "If you're against the war, you better come up with a plan that's better than ours."

Well now, McCain is saying that the war detractors (meaning the Democrats) are "intellectually dishonest" and that the non-binding resolution they are trying to push demoralizes our troops."

He challenges them to come up with a plan that's better than the President's.

The thing with this, is that both Democrats and their supporters have.

However, none of their plans involve deepening the war's escalating conflict by spending hundreds of billions of dollars more, and sending in tens of thousands of US troops back into the civil war--currently gripping Iraq.

Which is what McCain and Bush want.

However, another hitch has come up which is making McCain equally nervous.

Bush's "go-for-broke" strategy isn't gaining all that much traction amongst nervous and skittish Republicans, and now he has to make a big stink about other plans which he sees as 'demoralizing' to a war which has more in common with another war fought almost four decades ago.

Vietnam.

Why?

Because while we've lost this war to both political gerrymandering and gross incompetence, John is being reminded of failures past with Vietnam. And this is something he can't live with now--30 years later.

Hence his ongoing attacks with the anti-war Democrats and their supporters.

Schuyler Thorpe

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