Anti-McCain video

Newly posted at YouTube two weeks ago, this 5-minute video does incorporate some older footage, but does so in a strikingly forthright way.

The key figure is Scott Ritter, former intelligence officer in the U.S. Marine Corps and chief U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991-1998; his C-Span diatribe against "usable" nuclear weapons for pre-emptive strikes is excerpted in this video.

Other negative commentary comes from General Wesley Clark and from Pat Buchanan, a conservative pundit who suggests John McCain will be a "war president."

I have previously decried the use of "fearmongering" during the Giuliani campaign, and this video may be guilty of the same tactic, although it does not arise from the Obama campaign. In this video the suggested fear is not of a perceived enemy, but of a McCain presidency and further wars.