John McCain's Iraq Problem...

Grim new evidence of our miscalculation:

An exhaustive review of more than 600,000 Iraqi documents that were captured after the 2003 U.S. invasion has found no evidence that Saddam Hussein's regime had any operational links with Osama bin Laden's al Qaida terrorist network.

The Pentagon-sponsored study, scheduled for release later this week, did confirm that Saddam's regime provided some support to other terrorist groups, particularly in the Middle East, U.S. officials told McClatchy. However, his security services were directed primarily against Iraqi exiles, Shiite Muslims, Kurds and others he considered enemies of his regime.

McCain has two problems if he wants to pursue President Bush's policy in Iraq. How is he going to fund the occupation for another 10, 25, 50 years? Second, how is McCain going to bring in more troops into the armed services because as the Pentagon states we cannot maintain the armed services with our current numbers and stay in Iraq...these are bad times for the United States in trying to retain soldiers and recruit them. Will John McCain propose raising taxes and implemeting the draft once in office? Serious questions need "straight talk" from both sides of the political aisle.