John McCain, who I supported when he ran against George Bush, stated that American lives have been wasted in Iraq. He’s right, absolutely, dead, right.

Unfortunately, any gravitas he had back in-the-day is gone, and I no longer support him. He’s become a washed out shadow of what he was.

On the David Letterman show he said:

“[Americans] are very frustrated, and they have every right to be. We’ve wasted a lot of our most precious treasure, which is American lives, over there.”

…and, for a brief moment, the former John McCain was back.

I my estimation wasting is the burning and destruction of something precious for no purpose, or for a purpose of little value. We have wasted our nations youth and treasure on the adventures of a President and administration who are at best misguided, at worst deranged, and in actuality criminal.

Of course Mr. McCain has subsequently backpedaled because saying ‘wasted‘ is a sin (see: McCain says he misspoke in saying U.S. lives ‘wasted’ from CNN). Mr. Obama said the same thing and had his head handed to him as well.

We have to tout their sacrifice. That’s the only proper word. Sacrifice we feel so strongly about that we cut VA funding and place our permanently injured and handicapped sacrificial lambs in places like Walter Reed. To wit from Fox News: Top Army General Relieved of Command at Walter Reed Army Medical Center

WASHINGTON —” A top Army commander was relieved of his command at Walter Reed Army Medical Center on Thursday after senior officials said they lost trust and confidence in his leadership abilities to address injured soldier care at military medical facilities.

Army Maj. Gen. George W. Weightman leaves his post as two-star general of the North Atlantic Regional Medical Command and Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

In a brief announcement, the Army said service leaders had “lost trust and confidence” in Weightman’s leadership abilities “to address needed solutions for soldier outpatient care” at Walter Reed.

The change comes on the same day that an independent panel reviewing allegations of poor quality-of-life conditions at two military medical facilities treating soldiers injured in Iraq and Afghanistan plans to meet for the first time…

They are coming back severely handicapped, insane, or sick. We aren’t seeing it that much because those folks are all housed out of the public eye. When they do appear on the street, and they will be out, on the street, we’ll echo the words of Mrs. McGrath:

All foreign wars I do proclaim
Between Don John and the King of Spain
And by herrins I’ll make them rue the time
That they swept the legs from a child of mine.

The ending lyrics from Mrs. McGrath most recently performed by Bruce Springsteen in We Shall Overcome – The Seeger Sessions.

God help us.