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Bob Gates was brought in as DefSec by Poppy to help clean up Dubya's mess.



Which is exactly what I said above:

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I don't see Bush starting another war when he's spending his last few months in office trying, at long last, to clean up the mess on the Afghan-Pakistani Border.




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McCain has people close to him who want to help salvage the position of Georgian President Saaskasvili



Salvaging Saakashvili's position and intervening militarily are two separate matters and are not mutually inclusive.

More to the point, aside from the occasional Curtis LeMay, most professional military personnel are extremely reluctant to go to war. Look at the Bushies who got us into this mess: How many of them spent a career in the Military? Cheney? Draft Dodger. Rice? Please. Rumsfeld? Three peacetime years in the Navy. As I recall, the only one who did was Gen. Powell, and he's spent the last four years cursing Bush for lying to him. What makes you think McCain is going to surround himself with such Chicken-Hawk flunkies like those.


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With respect to Palin, she probably derives her notions of geopolitics and strategic policy from the Book of Revelation.



1) What makes you think Palin (or any future VP) is going to have anything remotely approaching the influence Cheney has over the current Jackass?

2) What makes you think McCain is going to drop dead when his mother is still around at age 256?

3) What is the difference between Palin's Church of Intolerance and Hate and Obama's Church of Intolerance and Hate? Can any of you answer this? Because all I'm hearing is folks trying to have it both ways.