McCain Response to 'Obama is Right'

clipped from marcambinder.theatlantic.com "His domestic politics require him to be for us getting out," said a senior McCain campaign official, speaking on the condition of anonymity. "The military says 'conditions based' and Maliki said 'conditions based' yesterday in the joint statement with Bush. Regardless, voters care about [the] military, not about Iraqi leaders."

Well, there ya go then -- all that talk about Iraq being a '"sovereign nation" has been a bunch of horseshit. It's not the voters of Iraq who get to decide the future of that nation, but the voters of America.

Team McCain admits to fighting a war of empire. This strikes me as an extremely bad attempt to spin their way out of an unspinnable situation. To quote an unnamed "prominent Republican strategist" Ambinder refers to in a previous post, "We're fucked."