McCain Would Repeat The War All Over Again

John McCain said something rather shocking today, and I don't mean confusing Sudan and Somalia:

In an interview with reporters on the back of his campaign bus, the "Straight Talk Express" Monday afternoon, McCain said that even in retrospect he would still have voted to authorize the war, as he did in 2002.

"I think there's no question," said the Republican's likely presidential nominee. "I owe too much to these young people who are serving there to let political considerations interfere with what I know is right.

When asked if he would have pushed for the war to begin with, had he known everything he knows now, McCain said he would do it all over again. Let's deconstruct that:

• McCain would have authorized a war against a sovereign nation, in clear violation of the UN Charter, under the false assumption that it possessed WMDs, even if he knew with 100% certainty that there were no WMDs, thus stripping his only justification for invasion, yet he would do it anyway. (This isn't all that surprising, since that is essentially what he actually did, only it wasn't a 100% certainty, but the evidence was clearly not there to support the WMD claims)
• McCain would have still invaded Iraq even if he knew doing so would produce no benefits, and would take our focus off Afghanistan and allow Osama bin Laden to go unpunished 7 years after 9/11, and leave al-Qaeda to regain its previous strength.
• McCain would have still invaded Iraq, even though doing so would greatly increase Iran's power in the Middle East.
• McCain would have still invaded Iraq, even if he knew that doing so would greatly increase anti-American sentiment around the world and aid terrorist recruitment. (That is a no-brainer, he should have known that anyway)
• McCain would have still invaded Iraq even if he had known it would cost at least $3 trillion in taxpayer money that could have gone to universal health care, or improving our education system, or alternative energy research, or all of those AND not creating a record national debt.
• McCain would have still invaded Iraq even if he had known that it would cause gas prices to skyrocket and help put the US into a recession.
• McCain would have still invaded Iraq even if he had known that well over 4,000 Americans would die, and tens of thousand would be wounded, countless would live with PTSD for the rest of their lives, and then there would be many suicides on top of that, and thousands of American families would be torn apart, again, all with absolutely no gains or benefits coming from the invasion and occupation whatsoever.
• McCain would have still invaded Iraq even if he had known the invasion would have been followed by years of bloody civil war and ethnic cleansing, and eventually would have led to the deaths of over a million Iraqis, most of them civilians, to say nothing of the untold number of wounded.
• McCain would have still invaded Iraq even if he had known that it would created a huge refugee, and humanitarian, crisis with over 4.5 million people displaced.
• McCain would have still invaded Iraq even if he had known that directly after the invasion looters would steal or destroy almost all of Iraq's cultural heritage in a mass pillaging of Iraq's museums, libraries and archaeological sites, while American soldiers watched (and protected the Oil Ministry, and nothing else). Iraq, at the heart of Mesopotamia, the cradle of civilization, is a historical treasure, and it was destroyed, and meant absolutely nothing to Bush, McCain, or any of the rest of them. Turns out it meant a lot to Iraqis and others living in the Middle East.

The list could go on and on, but you get the idea: Despite all of the horrible things that have happened as a result of the unlawful invasion of Iraq, John McCain would have done it anyway, even though nothing good has came of it, and certainly nothing good enough to outweigh the limitless costs of the invasion. Words don't do this justice, it is insanity, it is so unbelievably reckless, evil, sociopathic, it is just mindboggling, that ANYONE could say this war should have been waged, that anyone could say that it was worth it, worth all of that. I mean really we should view these sort of comments as if someone had said the Holocaust never happened. No, think about it, that is how asinine and cruel his comments were.

This war is indefensible, PERIOD.