Dems pound McCain for new Iraq quote - Mike Allen - Politico.com

The Obama campaign and Democratic leaders accused Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) of being confused and heartless after he told NBC’s “Today” show Wednesday that it’s “not too important” when U.S. troops return from Iraq.

Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) said on a quickly organized Obama conference call that McCain’s comment was “unbelievably out of touch with the needs and concerns of most Americans,” saying that to families of troops in harm’s way, “To them, it’s the most important thing in the world.”

Kerry claimed “an enormous, fundamental flaw in his candidacy for the presidency, which supposedly has hung on his strength as commander in chief and his understanding of foreign policy.”

With the caveat that I remain unconvinced that the entire Iraq effort, per se, especially the Democracy Strategy, are an effective way to defeat global Islamofascist terror, it sure is interesting that Democrats all agree that anybody who doesn’t want to get out of Iraq immediately is “out of touch,” and ipso facto an incompetent Commander in Chief.

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