Washington Post Scolds McCain For Telling the Truth

The Folks at WAPO have their panties in a bunch over McCain's statement that Obama "would rather lose a war than lose a campaign,". The Post whines that "It's one thing to say Mr. Obama is wrong. It's another to accuse him of putting political self-interest over country. This is not the "politics of civility" that Mr. McCain was promising as recently as last month."

Oh please. When has the Post or anyone else heard Obama even use the word "win" when describing his Iraq policy, whatever that is, unless he was forced to. He and his party, including the Nutroots and Obama's radical chic circle of friends have made it abundantly clear that they couldn't give a rip if we won in Iraq or anywhere else for that matter. Obama is conveniently straddling the issue now, but throughout the primaries and before, his mantra was to get out at any cost and damn the consequences. He's even said that he stiil wouldn't have voted for the surge, despite its success. Does the Post really believe we forgot all that or that it doesn't matter?

We also haven't forgotten the Democrat Party's defeatist, "we should lose because we suck" attitude of the last forty years.

It was Democrats who refused to fund the Vietnam War after the North broke the peace treaty. We lost and 3 million Vietnamese, Cambodians and Laotians were slaughtered. They would be happy to repeat that shame in Iraq if they could, although this time the death toll would be much higher. Hey, what's a little genocide compared to the Democrat party's divine agenda?

It was Democrats who fought Reagan every step of the way in the Cold War. They voted against just about every weapon system in use today, including the Stealth Fighter, Patriot Missile, etc., etc. Democrats derided Reagan as a war mongering dope as they played footsie with our enemies from Managua to Moscow. Democrats not only didn't think we could beat the Soviets, they didn't want us to. And they are sorry we did.

The first Gulf War almost didn't happen because of Democrat opposition. They would have rather left the Kuwaitis and their oil in the hands of a brutal madman, eyeing Saudi Arabia as his next target. At least Al Gore voted for it after trading his support in order to get his mug on prime time TV.

The Washington Post should spare us the lectures on civility. Their ever present double standard and denial of the truth certainly isn't surprising. But it sure is getting old.