You've got to read this article on him in Vanity Fair by Todd Purdum.

Strange to say, he actually has a cogent explanation of his self-defeating stance on Iraq:

"Every partition in history has been a bloody mess. Removal into enclaves? We're supposed to have our military enclaves while Al Jazeera is broadcasting images of people who've helped Americans being beheaded in the street in Baghdad? I don't think so. A withdrawal to bases outside of Iraq, and go in if needed? How do we get in? You fly in in helicopters? Is that how you do it? Right now, a good portion of the military over there is used up or committed to just maintaining the supply train. So, suppose there's an outbreak in Ramadi, and we're supposed to go get it under control? How do you do that? It's just almost nonsensical. Look what it took to get our initial invasion going."

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How can this sh--head call himself a democrat or a liberal? He is a Bushit shill. Connecticut must be in a race with Texas for the Stupidest state in the country award.

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If that whiney stooge Lieberman had one honest bone in his body he'd admit to the American people that he is Israel's representative in the Senate. Lieberman cares about one thing only and that's to get the United States to fight Israel's wars for her. He reports directly to the jewish lobbies and only to them. We need to rid ourselves of these dual-citizenship bastards before we get any more of our real citizens killed. Lieberman is a traitor who puts Israel's interests ahead of ours.

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Where does this happy horseshit of McCain as a hero come from anyway? Who in hell made him a hero? He got his aircraft shot out from underneath him and got captured. What part of that sorry episode conferred hero status on him? Getting captured use to be considered a disgrace. McCain himself said that it doesn't take any great amount of skill to get shot down. Being captured and spending time in the enemy's prison is not heroic! Heroic implies he had a choice. If he had managed to escape while killing a few of the enemy that would have been heroic.
McCain is no more a hero than I am and I fought on the ground in Vietnam not from a few thousand feet in the air. Face it, Vietnam was one of the sorriest chapters in American History where we got 58,000 troops killed for exactly nothing. There were no heros in that bunch only suckers and cannon fodder. I challenge anyone to prove otherwise.
Are we so desperate for heroes that we hang the title on anyone who participated in war? Grow up America, we have very damn few real heroes and McCain is certainly not one of them.
He does have a splendid background of chumming with shysters and racketeers however and people should spend some time looking over his resume and his Navy career, from the academy to the end of it. Hero my ass!

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How does MoveOn square the statement "...troops surge, vigorously opposed by the incoming Democratic Leadership, who cite every relevant general in their letter to the president..." with their allowing Tom Lantos (D - CA, San Mateo) to chair the House Foreign Relations (Affairs?) Committee. Does that not make Lantos - a Class A arch-ZioCon Warlord if there ever was one - a integral part of the House Democrat leadership, precisely on foreign policy issues?

If one reads carefully what the letter actually says - which dogmatic "to the death" supporters of the Democratic Party such as MoveOn can be relied on not to do - Pelosi and Reid merely write of "redeployment" away from Iraq. This policy actually makes rational sense in the context of a buildup of Democrat support for an aggression against Iran. What the House Democrat leadership - including Lantos - are saying by omission is: Why leave US soldiers in Iraq as nothing more than sitting ducks for the inevitable Iranian retaliation, when even fanatics such as Lantos, McCain and Lieberman know full well that a US ground invasion of Iran is beyond that capability of the USA, and not a possibility?

And Lantos, when interviewed on CNNs' Lou Dobbs - a show that reflects the real mainstream ideology of the Democratic Party, which is anything but liberal - went out of his way to point out that "getting Hugo Chavez" was on the top of Lantos Latin America agenda.

Let's see how MoveOn fancy-dances around that. We will be seeing a lot of such fancy footwork in the next 2 years from the dead-enders of the Democratic Party Left.

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