Please make him stop

I mean, John McCain really just needs to shut up. Why does anyone take him seriously?

He is once again so wrong for so many reasons.

First of all, we don’t have 20,000 troops to just send over there. To increase the size of our standing combat troops takes time, and the time for sending more troops to Iraq ran out two or three years ago. It is interesting that the Army is now saying it wants to realign its forces, which would mean moving more soldiers to combat duties and hiring more private contractors (another bad idea) but this again takes time.

Second, sending more troops would just create more targets at this point, and would just make the situation worse for our military and cause more casualties.

Further, how will the military, which is already stretched so thin equip and train these additional troops?

Should we go on? For instance, if we did have 20,000 troops, why don't we use them to find Osama bin Laden?

This sounds more like a plan for a permanent presence in Iraq rather than winning (or more likely calling it a draw) and exiting.