Dishonorable: What Price Your Victory?

WaPo:

Stumping in Fort Myers on Saturday, McCain went on the attack first, linking Romney with Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.): "If we surrender and wave a white flag, like Senator Clinton wants to do, and withdraw, as Governor Romney wanted to do, then there will be chaos, genocide, and the cost of American blood and treasure would be dramatically higher.

Powerline. NRO. Hugh Hewitt. I never thought I'd quote Time, but this just shows you how out of line McCain is. After all, they put him on their cover this week:

To review: In the course of a few hours, McCain said that Romney once wanted to set a date to withdraw from Iraq, accused him of working on the same side as Hillary Clinton in the Iraq debate, and accused him of disrespecting American servicemen and women. Is any of this true? Not that much.[snip]

McCain says that he thinks this amounts to Romney supporting a drop-dead deadline for withdrawing troops. But that's not what happened. A more fair reading of the exchange shows that Romney was instead talking about private benchmarks that would allow Bush and Maliki to measure success or failure. In fact, Romney says flat out that he would veto any bill from Congress that contained such a timetable for withdrawal.

But even if Romney had explicitly supported withdrawal, what exactly does McCain mean by demanding that Romney apologize to American troops?

You be the judge. It makes me want to cry. This is dishonorable behaviour. What price victory? I honor his service to our country, but in the end, it's about him. Dishonor, John McCain. Dishonor.

We honor your service, but time and time again you take advantage of our good nature. How many unsung heroes do you dishonor today with your lies. How many.