McCain and Clinton both keep touting their so-called 'foreign policy experience'.

But the fact of the matter is that their experience is what got us stuck in Iraq in the first place.

Both made their decision to support the invasion of Iraq for purely political reasons. They did not put the interest of America first. Neither did any other politician that voted for the invasion.

What they did do is political calculus. Hillary and the other Democrats that voted for the war didn't want to be left in the dust in case the invasion was a huge success and was over in 6 months as Donald Rumsfeld promised.

Clinton, with her eye on the Presidency hedged her bets by voting for the war. She knew she would be able to fall back on that vote to demonstrate how tough she is on National Security. McCain for similar reasons supported the invasion of Iraq because he knew it would be politically expediant for the Republican Party and for George Bush and he needed the support of both if he were to run for President in 2008.

It is exactly because of their poltical experience that we are stuck in Iraq today. They are both incapable of doing what is right for America because they are both too worried about their own political careers to even consider the best interest of the American People.

Clinton likes to say that Obama didn't have to make the tough decision to vote for or against the war. Well, the decision was not a tough one. It was clearly a no vote all the way.

The tough decision Hillary had to make was calculating how a yes vote or a no vote would affect her future Presidential Campaign. McCain faced a similar tough decision. Do they do what is best for America or what's best for themselves?

In the end both McCain and Clinton voted in a way that they thought would benefit their own political careers. McCain has staked his entire political career on Iraq and Bush style foriegn policy. Hillary is trying to take advantage of her yes vote by hinting that it shows how tough she is on National Security.

Initially Hillary ran on a pro-Iraq platform. She tried to say we couldn't get out of Iraq but that she would work toward getting the U.S. out of Iraq by the end of her first term. When that didn't play well she flip-flopped and said she would consider withdrawing U.S. forces faster. But each time she hedges her bet because she thinks she needs the so-called 'National Security' voters to win the Presidency. As such, she puts her own political career ahead of America.

And let's not confuse pre-emptive unjustified war that bankrupts the U.S. Treasury as somehow equivalent to strong National Security.

Clinton and McCain's experience doesn't mean shit. For McCain it just means he will do what Bush did and get us into yet another war, next time with Iran, so he can gurantee his own re-election in 2012 as Bush guranteed his own re-election in 2004 by invading Iraq.

All Clinton's experience has taught her is how to use the military to her own political advantage. If she decides she needs a war to get re-elected in 2012 she'll do it. She has already demonstrated that she loves the politics of fear.