From the AP:
Arizona Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record), a 2008 presidential candidate, contended the bipartisan nonbinding resolution amounted to a demoralizing "vote of no confidence" in the U.S. military because it criticized Bush's plans to send 21,500 more troops to Iraq without offering concrete alternatives.
"I don't think it's appropriate to say that you disapprove of a mission and you don't want to fund it and you don't want it to go, but yet you don't take the action necessary to prevent it," McCain said.
"In other words, this is a vote of no confidence in both the mission and the troops who are going over there," he said, noting the proposal does not seek to cut off money for troops.
That's textbook disingenuous, Senator McCain. The Senator McCain who ran as a maverick Republican for President in 2000 would have shown candor and called the resolutions what they are: a vote of no confidence in the President. I think the good McCain would vote yea on that. Where has the good McCain gone?
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