Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

How ironic that John McCain, in response to Obama's obviously successful tour, would claim that Obama spoke "with the audacity of hopelessness."  

That, after Obama's Berlin appearance welcomed by over 200,000 Berliners gave "the sense of hope" as a pivotal point of his speech, as New York Times reporter Steven Erlanger wrote in his on the scene coverage of this stirring event.

Larry Eichel of the Philadelphia Inquirer stated in his July 24 Seattle Times article, referring to John McCain's response to Obama's Iraq visit:

"Obama, even after visiting Iraq, was showing a remarkable failure to understand the facts on the ground by continuing to call for a withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq on a fixed timetable."

Iraq's president has been asking for such a timetable for the past two weeks.  This is also a step favored by 70% of Iraqis according to current polling.

McCain went even further in his scorching criticism of Obama in Larry Eichel's article:

"So, apparently, Senator Obama would rather lose a war in order to win a campaign."

Those inflammatory words were etched with cutting edge judgment.

Is John McCain aware of the fact that the Geneva Accords regarding conducting war, regulations the U.S. signed and agreed to long ago, stand in direct defiance to the illegal Iraq War commenced on a series of lies?

Has the burning fact ever once crossed John McCain's consciousness or for that matter his conscience?

It might be interesting to see how John McCain would answer the following questions.

1.  Are you aware of the fact that Iraq never attacked the U.S.A.?

2.  Do you believe that George Bush should be held accountable for generating fear hysteria with the false claim in his State of the Union Address that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and was developing nuclear power threatening the U.S.A., to launch the Iraq War on lies?

3.  If you approve of this hoax that has cost so many human lives and pushed the U.S. further into debt to launch the Iraq War, would you approve of a similar hoax to launch war on Iran or some other nation?

4.  Do you think the death and wounded Iraq War statistics, knowing now that the Iraq War was launched on lies, was it worth it?  According to reliable European estimates over 1.2 million lives have been lost due to the Iraq War while some 4,600 U.S. service personnel are dead with 55,000 wounded, lest we forget!  Also, 2.5 million Iraqis have fled for their lives to Iran, Syria and Jordan.

5.  After what happened in Iraq, can you now understand why nearby nations now want to arm themselves for survival?

6.  When do you think all those responsible for launching the Iraq War will be held accountable at the International Court of Justice in The Hague?

7.  Are you aware of any links to war profiteers to the current administration officials?

8.  Should we simply forget holding warmongers accountable, and just say they made some bad decisions and let the dead bury the dead and let bygones be bygones?