McCain's Rose Colored Glasses...

Apparently, McCain doesn't think we will have to fight the war in Iraq for 100 years anymore, but maybe we can win by 2013.

“By January 2013, America has welcomed home most of the servicemen and women who have sacrificed terribly so that America might be secure in her freedom,” Mr. McCain said at the Greater Columbus Convention Center. “The Iraq war has been won. Iraq is a functioning democracy, although still suffering from the lingering effects of decades of tyranny and centuries of sectarian tension. Violence still occurs, but it is spasmodic and much reduced.”

I am a little concerned that the "best" scenario McCain could come up with is "winning" in another four and half years -- and this "win" would still entail a troop present and "spasmodic" violence... I don't know that I can accept the idea that a functioning democracy can tolerate "spasmodic" political/ethnic violence. And what is so miraculous about 2013? What is going to happen in the next four and a half years that hasn't in the last five? Well, the one sure answer under McCain's watch is that more American troops and Iraqi civilians will die in a war zone.