McCain needs to explain where he's been when all this was happening

Full Text of Senator John McCain's Speech at the VFW Convention
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/articleid/10957

It's a speech. A speech made to come out as if McCain had nothing to do with the problems of Walter Reed, the backlog of claims, the worsening situation the troops were coming home to or anything that has been done while the troops suffered. He wants us to think his hands are clean because after all, a veteran wouldn't treat other veterans a deplorably as his record indicates if he really cared. In his speech, he went to great lengths to attack Obama instead of attacking his own record against veterans. While he wants people to always see him as a "war hero" so they don't look at what he has done since Vietnam, he will not do it with honesty.

McCain wants to paint Obama as being so ambitious that winning is all that matters to him, but that is just an attempt to take factual focus off of himself. If McCain were not ambitious, he wouldn't not be running for the presidency and he treats us as if we were stupid enough to not notice this. Winning, as he puts it, in Iraq, was accomplished back in 2003 when ever goal the troops were given was in fact achieved.
Where was McCain calling for the plans to do what the Bush administration was finally forced to do after the 2006 election if McCain really understood anything about Iraq or winning?
Where was he when the commanders in Iraq were shifting from fighting the Iraqi people to paying the Iraqi people to take up their own arms and fight the few members of Al-Qaeda causing most of the problems?
Where was McCain's judgment when all the evidence about the reason Iraq was invaded proved beyond a doubt there was never a need to invade especially given the fact there was already an ongoing campaign in Afghanistan in direct response to the attacks on our nation that was not "accomplished" and they were warned pulling troops out of Afghanistan was a dangerous move to make so much so that generals quit in protest?
Where was McCain when NATO was screaming for more help in Afghanistan years ago when all he talked about was Iraq?
Where was he right after 9-11 when he was already talking about the need to invade Iraq when everyone else was trying to focus on Afghanistan and the Taliban and Osama?

This is what needs to be focused on but McCain, well if he limits what he says to words that paint a picture of a "war hero" then people won't see what's behind the facade. They won't see that McCain wants combat veterans treated differently than all others when it comes to the medical care they were all promised equally. They were all willing to risk their lives. While the combat veterans do have needs above peacetime veterans, we have failed all of them already by what "leadership" like McCain's has already proven. It's time to get this right and with McCain, his judgment, his lack of support of veterans and the truth, it will be more devastation for those who serve this nation. kc