Reckless?

Today John McCain deemed "reckless" - all Democrats who want the US to eventually (preferably soon) pull out of the Iraq civil war.

Here's a few points to ponder:

• Democrats are in the majority in both houses of Congress because the American people put them there. The biggest issue of the 2006 election was that 70% of Americans want the US to get our troops out of Iraq. The Democrats are doing the will of the people. That is what representative government is supposed to do, and the principle of democracy is not reckless.


• There are Republicans who do not want us to occupy Iraq indefinitely. How come McCain doesn't deem them reckless?


• McCain put US soldiers directly into harm's way so he could have a political photo opportunity in a Baghdad market. McCain, who had to travel in the most heavily armed humvee in the world due to the civil war, deemed it perfectly safe to visit the market.


• The Bush Administration lied to the public in order to drum up public support for attacking and occupying Iraq.


• The war against Iraq is about oil and extreme war profiteering, we all know that. Placing the US military in crosshairs in Iraq prevents the US from fighting against the real enemy that attacked us. The war on terror is on hold so we can be in the Iraqi civil war.


• Placing the National Guard, who by definition guards the US, into the middle of the Iraqi civil war leaves them woefully unprepared for their duties in the US. We saw the consequence of this during hurricane Katrina.


• By the law of the United States of America, only the US Congress can declare war. The Congress has not declared war against Iraq. Yet dubya ordered the war to take place.


• McCain also calls the war against Iraq as "just". Yet, Iraq did not attack us on 9/11, and it has been proved that Iraq was not about to attack us, nor help al Qaeda. The bodycount as of last year was minimally 250,000 and maximally 900,000 Iraqi citizens dead. Millions have fled their own country. How is this "just"? Sure, dubya hated Saddam, and Saddam was an extremely bad person. But that does not justify the suffering inflicted upon the citizens of Iraq.

Now, where exactly is the recklessness?