While watching candidate John McCain on TV answering questions during a two hour program, he sounded like President Bush. He had a pat answer and a political comment for every question the preacher asked.
As he explained the things he intended to do, I thought, where are the spending cuts? His plans will cost as much as the Democrats. McCain says he can cut taxes and create more money to pay both past debts and what he plans to spend in the future. Is this possible?
New forests planted to highbred trees that grow twice as fast insures there will never be a shortage of paper. With well oiled printing presses and plenty of ink, money is no problem for McCain.
A look back -- our military faced a big problem with the end of World War II and Korea. The glory days were over and thousands of military career personnel found themselves with nothing to do. After the Eisenhower Presidency this problem lurched out of control.
With Eisenhower gone, the military began acting as advisors to the government. They blew a very remote threat to us in Indochina way out of proportion and created themselves a war in Vietnam. John McCain is a relic of that era. He flew on bombing missions over North Vietnam then returned to aircraft carriers off shore, never knowing or wanting to know how many innocent Vietnamese his bombs had killed. "See no evil, hear no evil" was the mindset back then, just like today. No one knows or seems to care how many innocent Iraqis have been killed.
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In the coming campaign, McCain and his friends will preach freedom, loyalty, patriotism, hero worship, winning; everything they can think of to glorify their war. The Republicans know America loves hearing these words and they think using them will win them the presidency.
The question is not "Does McCain hate war?" The question is, "Does America love war?"
Warren R. Crackel
Willmar
