John McCain Puts Afghanis First

This slipped under the radar during the holidays, and it's still worth archiving. McCain and his sidekick Lieberman were on the road last month, praising the US military unmanned drone attacks. But it was this quote from McCain that caught my eye:

"So we will be seeking both the funding and the policy that would mean that the Afghan military can be built up to a total of 400,000 troops in order to fulfill the responsibilities and meet the challenges that they face," he said.

This was around the same time of the release of this McCain campaign ad.

A narrator calls McCain “Arizona’s last line of defense” against Obama’s agenda and says McCain leads the charge against “ridiculously unaffordable ideas like government-run health care.”

So GOP Johnny wants full funding for the Iraqi Afghani army, but doesn't want the US government to spend any money on Americans' health care. Except, one assumes, his own that has been pretty much provided by the government from birth.

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