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The Hundred Years' War' By John McCain

There has been a lot of talk recently about our involvement in the war in the Middle East and which of our candidates would be best in handling it. Yesterday the media launched news that the American voters actually prefer John McCain over Barack Obama on this issue, stating that he has more experience than Obama because of time served in the military. The question the pollsters should be asking is, Which candidate will be best at pouring our earnings and our troops into a foreign nation?' It's basically the same question with only the semantics being changed.

At the start of this year citizen support for ending the war and bringing our family members home from the Middle East was overwhelming. In fact, McCain's Achilles' heel grew from his unabated support for the war, and his plans to occupy Iraq for "maybe a hundred years." John McCain believes America's troops belong in Iraq because of what he calls a "generally accepted policy of America's multilateralism." By "generally" he could only mean by those who believe we have a right to invade sovereign nations, and forcibly change their government to one that will act as we say. Multilateralism comes best by way of diplomacy, not by bombs and subversion. The plan to occupy Iraq for as long as we say is a unilateral decision. Iraq's newly birthed version of a parliament has already expressed their want for our troops to leave, as they feel our presence is only bringing out more sympathizers to the opposition, as more of the innocent civilians are harmed or killed there. We know the insurgency is mostly made up of Iraqi citizens and not members of terrorist cells, and with every stray bullet we fire, and with every accidental bombing of a neighborhood, we create more freedom fighters' against McCain's multilateralism'. At the start of this year we Americans had to suddenly change focus.

It was realized that with all our leaders' focus being poured into the health and welfare of foreign nations, there was mold and mildew growing on the walls in our own home, though it wasn't recognized until it was too late. Now we find ourselves stuck in the bathroom with rubber gloves pulled up to our elbows and wearing masks to keep from inhaling the stench the Bush Administration is leaving behind. Our housing market may repair itself, but only if the job market booms again, and with McCain's idea that NAFTA and CAFTA are great because it allows for our corporations to leave our country,

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