McCain Hits Obama Over Iraq War
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Playing on his greatest strength, national security, John McCain hammers Barack Obama in a new 7 1/2 minute video today, called “The Obama Iraq Documentary: Whatever The Politics Demand.”
Of course, Obama can boast today of raising $52 million over the last quarter, more than double what McCain raised. So Obama will have a large warchest to fire back.
Here’s the video. Warning: It has eerie music.
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your looking at a very intelligent …well spoken
extremely well educated, candidate for president
who will say anything at anytime to justify his oppostion
to the war….you are seeing in fact A KID
This may be among the most insightful things Consultant’s 4th cousin once removed ever said, along with: “don’t I get one of those King’s Ransom checks?”
Hey Consultant – someone is posting under your handle (consultant) elsewhere in JN, blasting DiFiore, etc. See front page, politics, library. Suppose there’s not much you can do about it, as there are “consultants” everywhere, but seems odd someone would use your handle on Guardian issues.
Ees no coincidence. Es malo. Biblioteca? Yonkers? Sammy Zee lose case? Guess who do that? Round up zee usual suspects. Zee Zombies.
Ivan must be Spanish, Japanese, African and German, with maybe a little Dutch thrown in. To put the best light on it, you might call him cosmopolitan.
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Oh, please! McCain is getting on Obama’s case? How many times has McCain changed his own stance on Afghanistan in the last 2 frikkin’ weeks?
From Crooks & Liars…
“The key quote, of course, was pretty straightforward: “[O]ur commanders on the ground in Afghanistan say that they need at least three additional brigades. Thanks to the success of the surge, these forces are becoming available, and our commanders in Afghanistan must get them.”
What’s important to realize, though, is that while Obama has been arguing for a year that he wants to send additional troops to Afghanistan, McCain has always held the opposite position, opposing the deployment of more U.S. troops, and arguing that any additional troops come from NATO.
Yesterday, however, McCain reversed course, change his position, and embraced Obama’s policy as his own. As Josh Marshall explained, “So let’s all say it out loud: McCain is now copying Obama’s position on Afghanistan. And with troops that he doesn’t have since he’s against pulling any out of Iraq.”
But it gets worse. McCain has actually held multiple positions on Afghanistan in the last seven days.
Last Tuesday, McCain did not want to send more U.S. troops to Afghanistan.
By yesterday morning, McCain said he does want to send more U.S. troops to Afghanistan.
Almost immediately after giving his speech — literally just minutes after the event — McCain said he didn’t exactly mean what he’d said in his prepared remarks, and argued that the additional troops could come from NATO, not U.S. forces.
And then a few hours later, McCain refined his policy a little more, saying the additional troops would come from NATO and U.S. forces.
Remember, the premise of John McCain’s presidential campaign is a) his expertise on foreign policy and national security; and b) his consistency.”
And McCain is getting on Obama’s case for only going to one Senate hearing on Afghanistan. In the meantime, McCain has shown up for ZERO hearings on Afghanistan in the last two years, according to ABC News. This from the guy who only showed up to vote 38% of the time this session of Congress.
Frikkin’ hypocrite.
The Consultant will not like it to see someone has been using his handle to attack DiFiore.
that would demonstrate that anyone can log on as THE CONSULTANT wouldn’t it…
the iraqi’s want us out. get it ? the iraqi’s want us out. get it ? U.S imperialism is not the way to go.
Obama wants us out in 16 months..not physically possible
it would take us over 2 years to remove the basis, the men
and the other hard assets..However we could conceivably
start the process..the difference however is that McCain
does not want to announce our intentions for fear of
compromising our ability to exit without creating
a situation of chaos..the american public is split
on their plans..However the Iraqi government wants
us to announce a timetable for withdrawal..Let me
suggest that has nothing to do with just exactly
how we get out and what the condition of that
government is when the majority of troops leave
the last thing we need is to encouragae a civil war
between sunni and shia…so..although the war
is the worst foreign policy error since the bay
of pigs….getting out will be acheived slowly
and carefully…and if McCain were smart he would
adopt that posture….
If McCain was smart, he would know the difference between Sunni and Shia, instead of having Joe Lieberman correct him all the time. I could come up with many more ways McCain could be smart, but, even if he did them, he’d probably change them within a few days.
The press doesn’t report on all of these changes, because they’re all hoping McCain will have them over for ribs again, or let them sit in the big seat on Cindy’s plane.
he also blew the fact that czhekoslovakia is no longer
in existance the other day….but its only a little
tiny nation in eastern europe!
So, if McCain is so big on security issues, why is Reuters reporting that McCain spilled the beans that Obama will be visiting Iraq this weekend? The same McCain who got upset when it got out that McCain’s son is stationed in Iraq, because that might put him in more danger?
So, it’s ok to not want to disclose security details about your son, but he’s fine with letting it slip about Obama’s plans?
So, if he (God forbid) becomes president, is McCain gonna let the codes slip, or tell everyone about that cool new top secret gizmo? I’m becoming more & more convinced that McCain has some sort of dementia. Just because his Mom is in her 90s and sharp as a tack doesn’t mean he ain’t a few sandwiches short of a picnic.
This from Obama’s campaign today…
“There are two problems with John McCain’s political attacks on Barack Obama’s foreign policy. First, on the biggest foreign policy questions of the last eight years, Barack Obama has made the right judgment and John McCain has sided with George Bush in making the wrong one. Second, the failure of the McCain-Bush foreign policy has forced John McCain to change his position, and to embrace the very same Obama approaches that he once attacked.
Just this week, Senator McCain has been forced by events to switch to Barack Obama’s position on two fundamental issues: more troops in Afghanistan, and more diplomacy with Iran. On both issues, Obama took stands that weren’t politically popular at the time – opposing the war in Iraq as a diversion from the critical mission in Afghanistan, and standing up for direct diplomacy with Iran – while John McCain lined up with George Bush. Time has proven Obama’s judgment right and McCain wrong.
The next shift appears to be Iraq. For months, Senator McCain has called any plan to redeploy our troops from Iraq “surrender” – even though we’d be leaving Iraq to a sovereign Iraqi government. Now, the Bush Administration is embracing the negotiation of troop withdrawals with the Iraqi government – a position that Senator Obama called for last September, and reiterated on Monday in the New York Times. And now, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki supports Barack Obama’s timeline, telling Der Speigel that, “Barack Obama is right when he talks about 16 months.””
Hope McCain doesn’t bruise easily, because that’s gonna leave a mark…
hey walt..you are correct in your analysis…McCain
should go to the majority position on the one issue
and fight it out on experience….80% of the nation
thinks we should not have invade..getting out is
another story..I personally am with chuck hagel on
this issue..and it is clear that the Iraqi’s view
us as occupiers….as do the palestinians of the Israeli’s
on the west bank…its all the same foreign troops on
their soil…bush is backpeddling…maliki is saying
the only thing that plays to the arab street..and we
McCain gets caught in the cross fire..he was captive
during the only war we ever lost.and it concerns me
that he is fixated on loosing another conflict…one
we should not be in…
On this issue, Mike, I think McCain is delusional. Just today, in Michigan, he said,“I am happy to stand in front of you to tell you that this strategy has succeeded. It has succeeded. It has succeeded.”
Notice the past tense, succeeded, not succeeding. In what’s left of McCain’s mind, Iraq is a done deal. He seems to believe that all that’s left to do is start up the Iraq version of the Marshall Plan, and leave our troops there for 50, 100 years, living in peace and harmony with the Iraqis, like in Germany and South Korea.
McCain has unfortunatly bought in to the neocons
proposition that the Iraq invasion was right even though
the reasons for it were completely non existant…
that is the republicans dilemma
Mr. Foreign Policy Expert, John McCain, stepped in it again today-
“We have a lot of work to do and I’m afraid it’s a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq/Pakistan border.”
One problem. Iraq and Pakistan aren’t next to each other. Iran and Afghanistan are in between them. Either he doesn’t know the difference, or he keeps forgetting. Whatever it is, he ain’t as on top of things over there as he would have us believe.