If war as Viagra works

President Bush and the leading Republican candidate unites a disturbing enthusiasm for the war. For John McCain of Iraq seems even the effect of Viagra to have.

The President ran his last speech on the state of the nation from the beginning vergilbenden pages of his old speeches together (perhaps strike his speech-writer from sympathy with the American author’s guild). Instead of new ideas, we have a barrage of old statements, such as “Iraqis jubilantly, coloured_blue their fingers to stretch the amount,” or “we bring us in the crucial ideological struggle of the 21st Century “. Mandatory were 11 September mentioned and the promise that “we justice to the enemies of America”. Somewhere in the mountains of Pakistan prustet just Osama bin Laden go.

Bush was looking for an argument for the war out in the same form that even before five years would be: “A failed Iraq would encourage extremists, strengthen Iran and terrorists a base for new attacks on our friends, allies and our own country . “It lacked only the” 16 words “in his speech on the state of the nation in the year 2003, in which he accused Iraq, he tried to uranium in Nigeria to buy. On top of missing a Colin Powell, the powder shows that the appalling effect of Anthrax is showing. The problem is that our Iraq policy has failed, encouraged terrorists and Iran strengthened.

The dying in Iraq continues

The President also has a new champion communicative power of the best: “The pressure worked.” As I have already said, “pressure” - not the actual pressure, which is exercised. It is the wording, the now widely accepted as wisdom. In truth, this acquittal 2007 and 2008 for “Mission Accomplished”: the failure of efforts to achieve a political reconciliation. The Iraqi government has only three of the 18 conditions are met, the previous year. The dying continues.

And there is still hit Bush’s statement before his re-election: “Al Qaeda in Iraq is on the rise.” That is a old well acquittal. Nevertheless lit the crowd metaphorically lighter lights and receipted with the statement collected roar. The typical moment of the evening was when Hillary Clinton jumped from her chair and applauded, while Barack Obama was sitting. Maybe she had flashbacks from the year 2004.

Then there’s the peak undead Republican candidate John McCain, the last days spent, Mitt Romney attack by worn death argument authored, which often led the Republicans if they wanted to intimidate democratic opposition. McCain accused Romney, that he was in 2007, as well as the Democrats for a withdrawal date of the troops had. God forbid. “I was there. He said he wanted a withdrawal date, “McCain said at an event in a town hall in a retirement village in Florida.

Let the ongoing debate over whether Romney said the fact or not, aside. She tells you everything you about the unsoundness of today’s Republican Party need to know. The mere suggestion of a troop withdrawal could serve as an unpatriotic, un-American attitude designed to be the equivalent of unconditional surrender. Who alone, the word “time frame”, there is cowardly pacifists stamped.

“When we showed the white flag and swing, as Senator Clinton wants to do it, and we withdraw, as Governor Romney plans it, then there is chaos,” McCain said during his election campaign tour. In addition, Romney compared it with Harry Reid and called by his opponents, that he should be “among the young soldiers and soldiers apologize.”

Crazy Horse election campaign rhetoric at the weekend

A spokesman said McCain overdrived Romneys. This claim wirres supported McCain’s campaign talk of the weekend. He promised his supporters: “There will be more wars… We will not, but it will give further wars.” Horrible is that it in no idea this unbearable sadness overwhelmed. He looks more like a old grey alien Football Coach at the end of his long career in the finals for the championship but still comes to the train.

McCain’s people want him as a man experienced in the field selling. In matters of immigration policy and stem cell research, they have also right. He is also an expert in the “Pork-barrel politics,” a government practice, local administrative bodies to provide financial allocation to win their support. But the most important issue with which a president can deal with - the question of war or peace - that McCain behaves like a teenager is convinced that the strong man marked and the next confrontation may not wait.

After he pointed insisted that the next war already at the next corner, he was taken in an eerie gibberish about the suffering of our soldiers. Almost breathless, he said: “We will, in many cases, the symptom of post-traumatic stress treatment, my friends. We are many war wounds are caused by unconventional explosive devices and fire arose. Such devices include severe wounds. And it will be hard, my friends, we will have a lot to do. “

This speech could have just as well by General Buck Turgidson, a war lover figure in Kubrick’s satirical film “Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to love the bomb, “can originate. McCain is how Turgidson a disturbing enthusiasm for war. Although he would be the oldest president, who would ever elected, he need not Viagra - he has Iraq. Call your doctor, if the erection for more than four hours persists - or war for more than 100 years.

Bush and McCain’s failed approach to war and peace Affairs holds an important reminder: What are the differences Democrats may have and how heated and they disagree on the election also show - on the subject of Iraq to control the two parties in completely different directions. Clinton, Obama and the Democrats all look to the future, while Bush, McCain and the Republican Party deeply in the past to pin the Neanderthals.