I just don't believe that McCain wants to go to war..simply over oil or anything less than a real threat to America.
Hard to blame anyone for getting that impression, based on quotes like this :
It's a tough war we're in. It's not going to be over right away. There's going to be other wars. I'm sorry to tell you, there's going to be other wars. We will never surrender but there will be other wars.
And right now - we're gonna have a lot of PTSD [post traumatic stress disorder] to treat, my friends, we're gonna have a lot of combat wounds that have to do with these terrible explosive IEDs that inflict such severe wounds. And my friends, it's gonna be tough, we're gonna have a lot to do."
. John McCain
Jan. 2008
There will be other wars.....
Well, how come every time he sees an opening, there's suddenly a "crisis". Not just a potential threat, or a short term problem, but some enormous black and white issue ?
Reason magazine has a pretty good article outlining all the hyperbole that McCain's capable of using in such circumstance.
http://www.reason.com/news/show/128142.html
Some of it even highly ironic, especially in light of his support for the Iraq war.
"In the 21st century nations don't invade other nations."
John McCain
on Russia's military action against Georgia,
Birmingham, Mich., Aug. 13, 2008
Well, some do. 
When the war in Iraq was about to start, he got it wrong, even with all his experience.
While pushing to take on Saddam Hussein, Mr. McCain also made arguments and statements that he may no longer wish to recall. He lauded the war planners he would later criticize, including Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Vice President****Cheney. (Mr. McCain even volunteered that he would have given the same job to Mr. Cheney.) He urged support for the later-discredited Iraqi exile Ahmad Chalabi’s opposition group, the Iraqi National Congress, and echoed some of its suspect accusations in the national media. And he advanced misleading assertions not only about Mr. Hussein’s supposed weapons programs but also about his possible ties to international terrorists, Al Qaeda and the Sept. 11 attacks.
The Sept. 11 attacks “demonstrated the grave threat posed by a hostile regime, possessing weapons of mass destruction, and with reported ties to terrorists,” Mr. McCain wrote in an e-mail message on Friday. Given Mr. Hussein’s history of pursuing illegal weapons and his avowed hostility to the United States, “his regime posed a threat we had to take seriously.” The attacks were still a reminder, Mr. McCain added, of the importance of international action “to prevent outlaw states — like Iran today — from developing weapons of mass destruction.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/us/politics/
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For the first two years this war was being planned and fought, from the time just after Sept.1th 2001 until his visit there in August 2003 , he was one of it's biggest cheerleaders.
His experience, always touted so highly here in foreign and military affairs, seems not to help him much.
"We have a lot of work to do. It's a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq-Pakistan border."
John McCain
ABC News interview, July 21, 2008
No such border exists.
I was concerned about a couple of steps that the Russian government took in the last several days. One was reducing the energy supplies to Czechoslovakia."
John McCain
Phoenix, Arizona, July 14, 2008
Czechoslovakia no longer exists.
"I'm going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated."
- John McCain
With America's economy in the state it's in, this isn't a time to NOT be educated. After twenty-five years of public service, he's neglected that side of government ? That tells you a lot about where his priorities are, doesn't it ?
In this recent campaign period, he's resorted to outright lies against Obama :
Obama wants to increase the size of government by 23 percent.
Obama plans "a tax increase for everyone earning more than $42,000 a year."
Obama "promises more taxes on small business, seniors, your life savings, your family."
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/personalities/john-mccain/
Now he's looking straight in the face of his supporters, that good ol' straight shooter himself, and he's totally misrepresenting Obama's platform. That means he's either ignorant of them, or he's deceitful.
Bush's tax cuts, and where they lead the nation ?
When times were better , he was against them. Now times are worse, and he's suddenly changed his mind.
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