Tim says American "kids" (his word, not mine) go to boot camp and come out ready to go and why can't we get the same from Iraqi "kids." McCain says we are paying the price for mistakes (by Rummy, although he doesn't say it).
McCain sees mistakes where our military in Iraq sees progress.
McCain is caught up in the argument of more versus less troops on the ground. That's an old argument, and he lost it some time ago. More troops would mean more targets and not necessarily better results. McCain doesn't understand that which means he's on the losing side of yet another policy decision.
I cannot believe Tim said that does he think we are all stupid or what the Iraqi children have hardly had the same upbringing as the American ones.
Notice how our soldiers are "kids", and our 14 year old daughters are "women", when they want an abortion w/o parental notice?
God protect us from the commie-vampire press.
Russert is an idiot and McCain is a fool.
Our 'kids' do not come out of boot camp ready to fight. They still have a hard year (at least) of intermediate and advanced infantry training, or armor, or artillery, etc, depending on specialty.
Our army has experienced NCO's, Senior NCO's and officers who in total add thousands of years of direct combat experience into the training, combat management and life saving skills that our young soldiers need.
Ignoring that shows a complete misunderstanding about how a military works and completely illustrates why journalists simply cannot fathom why our military is really the best in the world.
Earth to Tim: It's the people!!!! The US military is perfection on Earth due to the hard work of career soldiers who have more concern for the United States in their little fingers than a whole host of fat, biased, hunched-over-frowning-grilling-Republican journalists have in their fat, bloated bodies.
McCain is just a dumb a$$ dufus who, if he thought about what a slanderous thing Russert is saying about our military, would castigate him then and there, but is so eager to blame Rumsfeld, missed his change to prove he learned something as an officer in the Navy.
Because American "kids" come out to a military with a long history of hard won knowledge from decades of being a global superpower while Iraqi "kids" join a military being built from scratch. Because American "kids" come from a society where from birth they are trained to be free as opposed to "Iraqi" kids who grew up wondering if they would be ALIVE tomorrow. Because American "Kids" joined a military where some officers have more time IN COMBAT them most of the Iraqi Officers HAVE IN THE ARMY. Because American "Kids" join the military of the worlds lone superpower with all the wealth and infrastructure they need while Iraq kids joining the worlds newest army. Etc Etc ETC ETC ETC ETC ETC ETC.....
This is just another example of the Hysteric Left's psuedo-intellectualism. The slogan Russert spouts sound all wise and clever to the superficial and the ignorant. The statement is actually incredibility stupid. A person of Russert's supposed intellectual accomplishments should NOT being making such mind numbingly STUPID statements.
Guess the likes of McC and his america hating cohorts in the media would have us not notice the hundreds and hundreds of Iraqi citizens who have tried to become police officers only to be murdered at every turn.
Tim hated it when McCain pointed out that 1) we WERE greeted as liberating heroes on several occasions in the war, 2)if Saddam were left in power he would have pursued and maybe gotten WMDs (I think they all know info on actual WMDs is about to come out and they've gotta cover..), 3) and most of all--we ARE in a WAR and the enemy wants to DESTROY US and our civilization and, that if we bail out over there, they'll be over here blowing things up because, you bleeping ignorant stupid obtuse moron Timmy--we ARE AT WAR AND THE ENEMY WANTS TO DESTROY US.
It's amazing to me that these dips don't get that. Or maybe they just pretend not to get it so they can keep ragging on Bush--but how can they escape the fact that reality doesn't go away because you don't like it AND THESE CREEPS WANT TO KILL US ALL AND THEY WILL IF WE GIVE THEM A CHANCE. Can the idiots actually be so stupid they don't get it or are they just so suicidal that they'd rather take us all down with them than to lose to us? That's what I think.