Joe cited a great Politico article (great in the “my God they’re completely insane” kind of way) in the post below, and I wanted to excerpt one more very telling part:

McCain also slammed Democrats who asserted that the surge is a failure, and he took a veiled shot at Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.), who has already declared the “war is lost.” “If we lost the war, does that mean that someone else has won?” McCain asked. “Has Al Qaeda won?”

More of the irrational, chest-thumping non-logic that got us into this war, kept us from questioning how the war was going, and now keeps us from leaving. Well, I’ll answer the question: Yes, Senator McCain, we lost and al Qaeda won, and it’s your fault. You were in the majority in Congress for most of this war, you had the oversight responsibility, and you did absolutely nothing while Bush fiddled away any possibility of victory. You let George Bush send not enough troops. You did nothing while al Qaeda infiltrated Iraq AFTER our invasion and made it their premiere base of operations, learning better and better ways to kill us there and here. And you are demanding that we stay after we’re no longer welcome, after there is no longer hope.

You, Senator McCain, along with George Bush and the entire Republican party let al Qaeda win this war, so spare us your macho bluster about how-dare-we-imply-that-al-qaeda-won. Al Qaeda DID win, and it’s your fault because you let your testosterone make the decisions – hell, you’re still letting your hormones do the talking – and now we’re paying for the worst price imaginable, with our soldiers’ lives, and you couldn’t give a damn about them, all you care about is continuing the war, continuing the disaster, continuing the lie. All you’ve got left is bravado, Senator McCain. And the American people finally know it. And that’s why you’re never going to be president.