Senator John McCainSenator John McCain announces that we are indeed winning the War in Iraq and that Barack Obama was wrong and is wrong:
June 16, 2008
(Video 1 minute 45 seconds)
Right on!
In the video Republican presidential candidate John McCain highlighted his early support of the troop surge in Iraq. McCain says the U.S. would not be seeing success in Iraq if rival Barack Obama, who opposed the surge, would have had his way.
True.
The McCain Campaign continued to hammer Obama today on his pre 9-11 mindset.
The Hill reported:
As the war of words between the two presidential campaigns is escalating, McCain advisers and surrogates unleashed some of their harshest language yet in describing Obama.Michael Goldfarb has more on the "9-10 Candidate" at The McCain Report.
On a conference call with reporters, former CIA chief James Woolsey and others said Obama’s policy regarding the handling of terrorism suspects would create an opening for more attacks like those on Sept. 11, 2001.
Randy Scheunemann, McCain’s foreign policy adviser, said Obama represents “the perfect manifestation of a Sept. 10 mindset.”
“If a law enforcement approach were accurate, then you wouldn’t have had Sept. 11,” Kori Schake, a McCain policy adviser, said.
In an interview with ABC News, Obama referenced the first World Trade Center attack in 1993, and stated that it had not been necessary to put those responsible in a detention facility like Guantanamo but instead in U.S. prisons.
The campaign of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Tuesday accused Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) of being “naïve” and “representing the perfect manifestation of a Sept. 10 mindset” in his approach on how to treat suspected terrorists being held at Guantanamo Bay.
UPDATE: Joe Hill has a thorough update on the amazing developments in Iraq.
Obama...a Clear and Present Danger.
ReplyDelete"From Cassandra to Jesus Christ, it is amazing how often the doomed choose to ignore those who warn them of their coming fate."
Obama
ReplyDelete"When the facts change, I continue to pander to my nutroot base".
exactly so.
ReplyDeleteGP,
ReplyDeleteYou could try emailing McCain's blogmaster to see if they can send you a copy.
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ReplyDeleteMcCain made a gaffe starting @ 0:52..
"and he's wrong today; when he continues to acknowledge the success that we have experienced"
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He needs to explain that victory means the defeat of al Qaeda and the establishment of a democracy in the middle east whereas defeat would have been to concede Iraq to al Qaeda, Iran and chaos.
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ReplyDeleteMcCain also needs to make sure Obama knows this (not that i believe for once iota of a second he doesn't all too ready know)..
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Euf. As if you don't think that the Iraq war was a major geopolitical strategic error on the part of the US in terms of both hard and soft power. Even neoconservatives have conceded this point. The question is how to achieve the best result moving forward.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, at least Obama is willing to admit progress rather than simply follow the party line. Unfortunately, McCain can't say the same with respect to Iraq. eg, During the increase violence, McCain's comments to the effect of "The press keeps focusing on the bad. Never mind the bullet proof jacket."
Atta boy, Johnny!!! You need to beat Barack & the Defeatocrats over the head with this without mercy. Americans don't respect wimps and they don't respect quitters.
ReplyDeleteAnd I most strongly disagree that the Iraq invasion was "a major geopolitical strategic error." Quite the contrary, it was a strategic necessity if the malignant mindset of hatred and paranoia that has gripped the Middle East for the past 100 years was to be broken. While the management of the post-war occupatiion was badly botched for the first 3 1/2 years after Saddam was overthrown, in the long run the establishment of a genuine democracy in the heart of Arabia will have incalculable benefits for the west, just as the democratization of Germany and Japan have provided.
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ReplyDeleteCanadian Tar Heel @ 1:50 PM..
according to whom??
and please name a war that was "a major geopolitical strategic error" that wasn't won (excluding Vietnam, which was won on the battlefield, but lost thanks to Congress pulling the rug out from under our ally.. which also contributed to what's happening today btw)??
Anon @ 2:38 PM..
kudos!!
btw: it already has produced "incalculable benefits for the west".. :)
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ReplyDeletePrecisaloutly! ;)
This is probably a tall order for you folks on here who adore McSame and his empty-talk express, but can someone speak in specifics here? I know it's really easy to say "That black man with a funny sounding name is gonna let more terrists get us." But what exactly are you people talking about?
ReplyDeleteHow is putting people in US prison instead of Gitmo going to cause more attacks?
How is not torturing people going to cause more attacks?
Funny that Mr. Morality, Mr. Tortured POW, Mr. No Torture, McCain is suddenly pandering to his neocon nutjob redneck blow 'em up first Repuke base.
So much for values and committment to your true beliefs! McCain? I say, McSame!
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ReplyDeleteAnonymous @ 7:06 PM..
first of all McCain has absolutely nothing to do with it.. this is a matter of Homeland Security.. but then again, what would you know about it, or care, since the GWOT is probably just a "bumper sticker" as far as you're concerned.. here, listen to those who know better than you & i (not to mention the majority of morons on the planet) combined had to say..
Today’s Opinion “Will Almost Certainly
Cause More Americans To Be Killed.”
excerpt:
[Chief Justice Roberts
The majority rests its decision on abstract and hypothetical concerns. Step back and consider what, in the real world, Congress and the Executive have actually granted aliens captured by our Armed Forces overseas and found to be enemy combatants:
• The right to hear the bases of the charges against them, including a summary of any classified evidence.
• The ability to challenge the bases of their detention before military tribunals modeled after Geneva Convention procedures. Some 38 detainees have been released as a result of this process.
• The right, before the CSRT, to testify, introduce evidence, call witnesses, question those the Government calls, and secure release, if and when appropriate.
• The right to the aid of a personal representative in arranging and presenting their cases before a CSRT.
• Before the D. C. Circuit, the right to employ counsel, challenge the factual record, contest the lower tribunal’s legal determinations, ensure compliance with the Constitution and laws, and secure release, if any errors below establish their entitlement to such relief.
In sum, the DTA satisfies the majority’s own criteria for assessing adequacy. This statutory scheme provides the combatants held at Guantanamo greater procedural protections than have ever been afforded alleged enemy detainees— whether citizens or aliens— in our national history.
So who has won?
Not the detainees. The Court’s analysis leaves them with only the prospect of further litigation to determine the content of their new habeas right, followed by further litigation to resolve their particular cases, followed by further litigation before the D. C. Circuit—where they could have started had they invoked the DTA procedure.
Not Congress, whose attempt to “determine— through democratic means—how best” to balance the security of the American people with the detainees’ liberty interests has been unceremoniously brushed aside.
Not the Great Writ, whose majesty is hardly enhanced by its extension to a jurisdictionally quirky outpost, with no tangible benefit to anyone.
Not the rule of law, unless by that is meant the rule of lawyers, who will now arguably have a greater role than military and intelligence officials in shaping policy for alien enemy combatants.
And certainly not the American people, who today lose a bit more control over the conduct of this Nation’s foreign policy to unelected, politically unaccountable judges.]
[Justice Scalia
I think it appropriate to begin with a description of the disastrous consequences of what the Court has done today.
America is at war with radical Islamists. The enemy began by killing Americans and American allies abroad: 241 at the Marine barracks in Lebanon, 19 at the Khobar Towers in Dhahran, 224 at our embassies in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi, and 17 on the USS Cole in Yemen.
On September 11, 2001, the enemy brought the battle to American soil, killing 2,749 at the Twin Towers in New York City, 184 at the Pentagon in Washington, D. C., and 40 in Pennsylvania.
It has threatened further attacks against our homeland; one need only walk about buttressed and barricaded Washington, or board a plane anywhere in the country, to know that the threat is a serious one. Our Armed Forces are now in the field against the enemy, in Afghanistan and Iraq. Last week, 13 of our countrymen in arms were killed.
The game of bait-and-switch that today’s opinion plays upon the Nation’s Commander in Chief will make the war harder on us. It will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed.]
hope that helped put you in your place.. right
alongside the terrorists.. feel better now??
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ReplyDeletecorrection : bg @ 7:28 PM..
re: [right alongside the terrorists..]
actually, it places the TERRORISTS ABOVE US CITIZENS.. as they will be privy to classified documents, etc..
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