John McCain is such a disappointment

The Republican senator and media darling and all-but-announced candidate for president in 2008 is hanging in there with President Bush on Iraq, though he acknowledges that many mistakes have been made, including not deploying enough troops at the outset once the US decided to save the Middle East by invading Iraq. McCain says that we should expect a surge in deaths among young Americans sent to do the dirty work while people like him and like the president are armchair quarterbacks. God bless them, he says. Mr. McCain, your blessings are not enough.