Glad We Got It Right Eight Years Ago

"We shoulda stayed in Iraq and kept bombing the shit
out of the place until something good happened." 

As I'm sure you heard, Sen. John McCain called President Obama "directly responsible" for the Orlando gun massacre.  McCain's logic-and-fact-challenged point takes the long way around the barn and goes like this:

Obama pulled "everybody" out of Iraq, thus "creating" ISIS, and the nightclub shooter claimed he was an ISIS "member," so -- voila! -- it's all Obama's fault.  He might as well have pulled the trigger himself.

Complete horseshit, of course.

Withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq began in 2007 and ended in 2011, per the Status of Forces Agreement signed by George W. Bush.  Obama merely stuck with Bush's timetable.  We maintain 3500 troops in Iraq today as advisers.  The Pentagon sees no need for any more.

If anyone is directly responsible for creating ISIS, it's Dubya.  His disastrous, lie-based invasion in 2003 destroyed Iraq and turned the entire region into 13-year quagmire -- an endless procession of the unexpected.  Those who supported Dubya's Iraq folly, like John McCain, certainly bear some responsibility too.

The Orlando shooter was a U.S. citizen born in Queens.  Visiting an ISIS website and phoning in some last-minute "allegiance" does not make him a credible ISIS member, just a sick puppy.

Soon after his ridiculous remarks, McCain said he "mis-spoke."  Puts it mildly.

I'm so grateful we elected Barack Obama in 2008 instead of the bellicose warhawk McCain.  Time for that goofy old bastard to retire.