WHAT PRICE IS LOYALTY THESE DAYS?

Let me see if I get this right:

I've heard some people say how much they admire McCain and Obama, but when it came down to voting for either one, McCain would top the list in the 2008 election. (Excluding Hillary.)

Only because he's been in Vietnam and understands the situation in Iraq far better than Obama does--and that's good enough for the average (and undereducated) American voter.

But does he really understand what is going on in Iraq? To put it bluntly, McCain is just an old soldier of the Republican guard. The only thing he understands is Cold War threats and blind patriotism to a man whose own world is very much in line to his own.

In a recent trip to Baghdad, Senator McCain was telling the press of how much "progress" was going on with the troop surge in Iraq--but complained that the media wasn't showing it. (A favorite Bush supporter line.)

But why didn't he mention the chaos and destruction going on because of the troop surge? Or the fact that suicide bombings were increasing and not decreasing in Baghdad and parts abroad as the military claimed?

If this is the candidate that people want for President, I really don't pity our country for the mess its gotten itself into. Blind loyalty to one man has cost our nation much more than anyone can possibly imagine.

But what price will America continue to pay just to repeat the same pattern all over again--with a man who doesn't see reality for what it is?

Can we really afford another 4 to 8 years of government ignorance and incompetence at the hands of another Republican President?

Schuyler Thorpe

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