McCain would continue, expand the war in Iraq

Ellen DeSerres
Published: March 21, 2008

March 19, marked the fifth anniversary of the Bush invasion of Iraq, a sovereign nation whose people had done nothing to us.

So far, about 4,000 American soldiers have been killed, thousands have been severely injured, untold numbers of innocent Iraqi men, women and children have either been killed or have fled from their land, and the violence continues.

The invasion has been successful in bringing al-Qaeda to Iraq and creating more turmoil in the Middle East, and we now occupy a country we conquered. Whenever I hear a much older-looking (but not wiser) George W expound on the war, I feel I am watching Chauncey Gardiner, the hero of "Being There," talk about his garden.

And now Sen. McCain is using a powerful word like "surrender."
"We will never surrender," McCain says, and I wonder to whom we would be surrendering. When he jokingly sings "Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran," you can be sure, my friends, he is serious about the continuation of the Iraq War for many years. War is his business and his life. A vote for him would mean the continuation of the Bush Doctrine, with all the violence and killing in Iraq and fear in our land.