Can the Democrats come up with new ways to deflect McCain's wartime message? It's important, because the news from Iraq, this morning, is ... mildly positive (there appears to be forward political motion that is not off-sides, so to speak).
McCain drew Romney into a debate about Iraq. I've fallen into the same trap, here. Could this be avoided?
The polls are overwhelmingly against "more Iraq".
Rather than go toe-for-toe, point-for-point, the broad message, something very, very simple, could run something like this,
"The simple message to John McCain is that our troops are coming home.
There is no mission for American forces in Iraq, only for Iraqi forces to occupy their own country and for their neighbors to help them do it. There is no mandate for another $1 trillion dollars to underwrite the struggle against extremism that others must undertake without the expectation that America will do it for them. What Senator McCain does not understand is that Americans will not and cannot wage war "six months at a time".
Our troops are coming home. Our troops are coming home."
There is no mission for American forces in Iraq, only for Iraqi forces to occupy their own country and for their neighbors to help them do it. There is no mandate for another $1 trillion dollars to underwrite the struggle against extremism that others must undertake without the expectation that America will do it for them. What Senator McCain does not understand is that Americans will not and cannot wage war "six months at a time".
Our troops are coming home. Our troops are coming home."
It's worth batting about at least.
