this matter. McCain's and Clinton's future decisions will inevitably be clouded by the need for self-justification for mistakes they have yet to admit. And, unlike Obama, they are in no position to restore faith in America by the rest of the world. 
 
McCain has taken his lack of good judgment about Iraq to the next level. He has joined himself at the hip to the Bush disaster by demanding a "win." While we may empathize with our soldiers, who have given so much and who may grimly want to be vindicated when it comes to "sticking it out" and wanting to "win" what we can't do is elect a president whose idea of honor guarantees more wasted sacrifice.

It is time for America to draw a line under the Bush years not add to them! We may have to watch in horror as the Iraqis commit mass suicide. So be it. It's not clear that our continued presence in Iraq could prevent that suicide.
 
What is the alternative? Bleed our treasury dry? Sell our future to the Chinese as we borrow more and more money? Lose more and more American men and women? Rule the Middle East forever, while we destroy our economy to do it? Hand the whole region over to Iran, the one country that is, so far, the only real winner of Bush's war? Fight forever because Bush and now McCain, can't say the simple words; "I was wrong?"

Until McCain admits that the war he wants to "win" was based on mistakes and defended by lies the mere and endless repetition of the word honor will ring hollow. We need a new Truman for president, not today's version of MacArthur.
 
The next president needs to guard the interests of the United States of America first, not the abstract principles he lives by and his own sense of wounded pride, let alone the reputation of the Republican Party and the failed Bush presidency! There is nothing more out of place than a great man at the wrong time, especially an old man living in his past who seems to have forgotten that lasting honor must be based on truth.