McCain's Lust For War

The so-called front runner of the Republican party just so happens to be the man many of us thought would be long gone by now. His ratings stunk in the summer, but now he is flying high after winning New Hampshire and South Carolina. Many saw his drop last year attributed to clinging to the current unpopular President and the fact that he just isn't conservative enough for some of the radicals on the right. Well now he is trying to be as crazy as he can be, warning the nation of more war in Iraq....and more war to come.

From The Huffington Post:

Sen. John McCain told a crowd of supporters on Sunday, "It's a tough war we're in. It's not going to be over right away. There's going to be other wars." Offering more of his increasingly bleak "straight talk," he repeated the claim: "I'm sorry to tell you, there's going to be other wars. We will never surrender but there will be other wars."

McCain did not elaborate who the United States would be fighting. But he did warn the crowd to be ready for the ramifications of current and future battles.

"And right now - we're gonna have a lot of PTSD [post traumatic stress disorder] to treat, my friends," he said. "We're gonna have a lot of combat wounds that have to do with these terrible explosive IEDs that inflict such severe wounds. And my friends, it's gonna be tough, we're gonna have a lot to do."

The upside in all this is at least he acknowledges PTSD. It is a shame that he wants to encourage so many new cases of it. I guess when you have other candidates defending their lust for war in debates, the front runner needs to step up and show just who wants to kill the most (and disdain for our military, standing around the world, national debt, etc, etc).