McSame, sans codpiece
John McCain has his own Mission Accomplished Moment:
The comments come a day after the Arizona senator appeared to make a rhetorical shift in how he described conditions the war-torn country, telling reporters aboard his campaign bus that “we have succeeded in Iraq.”
“I repeat my statement that we have succeeded in Iraq. Not ‘We are succeeding.’ We have succeeded in Iraq,” he said Thursday.
Naturally, victory will take the form of spectacular attacks in Iraq:
“I predict that they will make an attempt as we get in to the election season to make more of these spectacular kinds of attacks which they’re still capable of doing,” he said. “The suicide bombers, et cetera, would not surprise me and we’ve already found out that they’re going to try and step up their attacks and try and do things in a more spectacular fashion so that they can erode the support of the Maliki government.”
As a not-so-great man once said:
Being a party to genocide and causing the displacement of 2.5 million people would not be termed a “success” by any rational, decent human being.
It may be that there is simply no one left to kill in Baghdad.