The Passive-Aggressive Hamster

Not only is "Mr. Straight-Talk" a pathetic automaton of a liar in his insatiable quest to be President, he's an unconscionable boob when it comes to going after people who have been forced into the intellectual prison of carrying out George Bush's impossible policy.

George Casey was not the guy who came up with the "too few troops" policy that George Bush insisted on until well-after the time in which they would no longer be of practical use. Casey was forced to do the best he could with what he had (the army he had). So McCain is now making Casey a scapegoat.

Said Sen. McCain: ""I have very serious concerns about General Casey's nomination. I'm concerned about failed leadership, the message that sends to the rest of the military."

'Failed leadership' here, of course, is code for toeing the Bush line for the last two years and then resisting the new effort to dig the US even deeper into the mess of Iraq. In other words, Casey becomes the lamb in whose blood the sins of the Iraq War dead-enders (Bush, McCain, et al.) are washed clean.

Ugh!