Veteran, vets' advocate: McCain's war posturing killing morale for troops

Raw Story by Nick Langewis, David Edwards | Jun. 12, 2008 (Interview)

The "surge" is working, we are winning in Iraq, and it's "not too important" as to when the troops will be returning home, Senator and presidential hopeful John McCain (R-AZ) said this week.

Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), or McCain's "dog's body," as MSNBC's Keith Olbermann refers to him, portrayed McCain as a particular authority on the Iraq occupation based on his service in Vietnam.

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Dwight Rousu
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 by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

Not quite as incisive as some Olbermann stories, but does provide more than one viewpoint to the story. The equivalence of dropping bombs from 30,000 feet on victims you never see, to the experience of house to house combat and insurgent suppression where you see the suffering; that equivalence seems false. The piece never touches upon the immorality and illegality of the invasion and occupation, not the 1.4 million Iraqi dead and 5 million refugees.

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