First let me say I'm glad to be back after an extended absence caused by the fact that I broke my right wrist. My thanks to John Kerry and M.J. Rosenberg for hitting back at President Bush's outrageous "appeasement" remarks in Israel, and John McCain's "me too" response to the whole affair.

I want to address a different McCain issue -- his "vision" of a stable, democratic Iraq in which most U.S. combat troops have been withdrawn, by 2013! How's that for a profile in courage?

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