General Betray Us

All het up over MoveOn's ad, John McCain says:

“It’s disgraceful, it’s got to be retracted and condemned by the Democrats, and MoveOn.org ought to be thrown out of this country.”

I wonder how he thinks he'd manage that? Take the servers hosting http://www.moveon.org/ and chuck them up to Canada? Or perhaps banish all 3.3 million of us to some America-hating place, like France perhaps? The Straight Talk Express continues to roll on, making no sense whatsoever.

I'm not really sure why this ad caused the rancor that it did, except perhaps that we're not allowed to insult military people, ever? It didn't even say he was General Betray Us, just asked the question, quite innocently (fine, maybe not "innocently", but you know). Anyway, the guy pretty clearly made some misleading statements that, if grouped together to paint a picture of a war that is false as they were, seem to me to count as a betrayal, considering we're supposed to rely on his testimony to make decisions moving forward that will affect and/or end American lives (AMERICAN lives, people! Those are the important kind of lives!).

Anyway, I just don't quite get it. Why all the fuss at MoveOn? He's the one lying his military ass off.