Two Candidate, Same Subject… WAY Different Explanations.

By jen

First, John Mccain: via: TownHall about war.

Just days ago, while speaking to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, Senator McCain stated, “In Vietnam, where I formed the closest friendships of my life, some of those friends never came home to the country they loved so well. I detest war. It might not be the worst thing to befall human beings, but it is wretched beyond all description. When nations seek to resolve their differences by force of arms, a million tragedies ensue. The lives of a nation’s finest patriots are sacrificed. Innocent people suffer and die. Commerce is disrupted; economies are damaged; strategic interests shielded by years of patient statecraft are endangered as the exigencies of war and diplomacy conflict. Not the valor with which it is fought nor the nobility of the cause it serves, can glorify war. Whatever gains are secured, it is loss the veteran remembers most keenly. Only a fool or a fraud sentimentalizes the merciless reality of war. However heady the appeal of a call to arms, however just the cause, we should still shed a tear for all that is lost when war claims its wages from us.”

Second, Barry O via his website which i refuse to link.  Mind you, he has zero point of reference for serving his country in uniform.  I would venture to say the greatest danger he has ever been in his life is when he pisses off that bulldog he is married to.  That or when he couldn’t agree on a color scheme for the Harvard Law Review Christmas Party with Buffy Finklestein and she put him in a choke hold.

“But conventional thinking in Washington lined up for war. The pundits judged the political winds to be blowing in the direction of the President. Despite – or perhaps because of how much experience they had in Washington, too many politicians feared looking weak and failed to ask hard questions. Too many took the President at his word instead of reading the intelligence for themselves. Congress gave the President the authority to go to war. Our only opportunity to stop the war was lost.

I made a different judgment. I thought our priority had to be finishing the fight in Afghanistan. I spoke out against what I called ‘a rash war’ in Iraq. I worried about, ‘an occupation of undetermined length, with undetermined costs, and undetermined consequences.’ The full accounting of those costs and consequences will only be known to history. But the picture is beginning to come into focus.”

—Barack Obama, Clinton, Iowa, September 12, 2007

So we have a man who actually gave a thoughtful, articulate answer from personal experience.  Then we have Mr.  I Will Win The War By Saying We Should Have Never Been There. Not sure about your thoughts, but this is a fucking no brainer.