McCain Makes Pact with "Devil" to get Elected Prez

It's clear that John McCain is posturing on the Iraq War in order get himself elected President in 2008:

Sen. John McCain took his controversial proposal for curbing Iraq's sectarian violence to Baghdad on Thursday, calling for an additional 15,000 to 30,000 U.S. troops and joining a congressional delegation in telling Iraq's prime minister he must break his close ties with a radical Shiite cleric.

First he contradicts General Abizaid by calling for more troops in Iraq. Then he attacks the Iraq Study Group findings and accusing it's members of defeatism. Now he calls for taking on the Shiite power behind the Iraqi government:

Lieberman said the senators met with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite, and urged him to break his ties with Muqtada al-Sadr and disarm the anti-U.S. cleric's Mahdi Army militia, which has been blamed along with Sunni Arab insurgents for the sectarian violence and ruthless attacks on U.S. forces.

Al-Sadr controls 30 of the 275 parliament seats and is a key figure in al-Maliki's coalition.

Dangerously dumb. It's precisely the wrong thing to do. What makes McCain's opportunism so bad is that provides cover for Bush and his neocon handlers. I wonder how much Bush's decision to send more troops to Iraq had to do with the Senator from Arizona's public position to the same effect. What polls are McCain looking at? Maybe he is looking to get some of the New York neocon money that got Joseph Lieberman reelected to the Senate as an independent.