John McCain and the Bush Administration Always Want ‘6 More Months’

April 11th, 2008

The following email sent yesterday by MoveOn.org came right on time. After watching some of General Petraeus’ testimony to congress I was think (as I’ve noticed before) these folks keep saying year after year “victory’s just around the corner”, “the insurgency is in it’s last throws”, after we hand over power to the Iraqis everything will be alright, “the insurgents are just a few dead enders”, after the Iraqi’s vote national pride will cause democracy and order to take hold. Things get a little better on the surface for a short while and we have “progress”, then things fall to shit, then they say the exact same stuff again; and repeat cycle.

    MoveOn’s Message:

    No matter what happens in Iraq, the Bush administration and John McCain always have an answer: 6 more months.

    When the “surge” began a year ago, they told America things would get better by September. In September, they said we’d know more by spring. And this week, General Petraeus is on Capitol Hill asking for—you guessed it—6 more months. Senator McCain and President Bush couldn’t agree more.

    They don’t have a plan for getting us out of Iraq. So they’re trying to sell endless war on an installment plan.

    Six more months won’t change anything—except the body count and the price tag. It’s critical that the news media and voters know that the Bush-McCain strategy in Iraq is to keep us there indefinitely—6 months at a time. So we’ve put together a video exposing their “6 month” gambit. Please check it out and pass it on:

    MoveOn continues…

    What exactly are they saying?

    Yesterday John McCain said the same thing he’s been saying for the last 5 years: We have to stay in Iraq, but “success is in reach.”

    And General Petraeus told the Senate that it would be fall before he could say whether, or when, to draw down troops below the “pre-surge” levels. (Specifically, he recommended a 45-day period for “evaluation” starting in the summer, followed by an open-ended “assessment” process to decide what to do next).1

    It all boils down to this: Demand more time and promise that victory is just over the horizon. Unfortunately, according to experts from the Iraq Study Group, the “surge” has gotten us “no closer to being able to leave Iraq than [we were] a year ago.”2

    More than 4,000 Americans are dead. We’ve spent almost $500 billion on this war. A year after the “surge” began, Americans are no safer, and there is no end in sight.

    With the Bush-McCain wait-and-see strategy, we can expect to hear “6 more months” for years and years to come.

    We can’t just sit by. We’ve got to speak out now—please help spread the word.

I’ve compiled a couple other news clips along the same lines:

They Keep Saying The Same Things Every Year About The War

McCain Doesn’t Know What’s Going On In Iraq

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