Straight talk:
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Straight talk:
“If you get involved in a major ground war in the Saudi desert, I think support will erode significantly. Nor should it be supported. We cannot even contemplate, in my view, trading American blood for Iraqi blood.” — Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), New York Times, 8/19/90.
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Abtholutely, prophthetic!
January 16th, 2007 at 2:19 pmI wish we could go back in time and rescue John McCain from that evil neocon cyborg jackass who murdered him and assumed his identity...
January 16th, 2007 at 2:27 pmHey TP,
It isn't fair going back to before he lost his mind for quotes. McCain can't be held responsible for his off the wall stuff now that he is senile, much less what he said before he was bushcoized.
January 16th, 2007 at 2:28 pmwait... WHAT?!
January 16th, 2007 at 2:28 pmSeems like a FLIP FLOP doesn't it?
January 16th, 2007 at 2:28 pm#2 might make for a good summer movie
January 16th, 2007 at 2:30 pmKerry Versus McCain On Iraq War
16th of January 2007
by Jay Randal
The Vietnam War fiasco propelled 2 veterans of that conflict to get elected to the Senate, and both desiring the presidency, but their experiences in Vietnam were different in that John Kerry learned that Vietnam was a mistake and John McCain believed it was justified.
John Kerry witnessed the horrors of warfare up close being an officer on a swift-boat, but John McCain saw it from the air as a Navy pilot and as a prisoner of war.
Kerry realized that the war was pointless to continue fighting it, but McCain saw its ending as betrayal of everything he suffered at the hands of NVA guards.
The Iraq War is another fiasco and huge dire mistake, so Kerry realizes that reality, but McCain refuses to acknowledge that and wants the war to be escalated.
President Bush lied to the American public to occupy Iraq, just like President Johnson lied to wage war in Vietnam, so the Iraq debacle must end like Vietnam.
Kerry must demand its end and McCain must wake-up!
( Jay Randal, political activist in Georgia, USA.)
January 16th, 2007 at 2:33 pmThat was before McCain made a deal with Bush that he hopes will make him the next president.
January 16th, 2007 at 2:35 pmI was for Cheeks McCain before I was against him.
Looks like my Governor, Tim Pawlenty (R) MN, is setting up to run with Cheeks for VP. Yesterday, on Fux Noose he stated what a great leader Cheeks is, and a shining example of someone standing up under diress. (Paraphrased)
Enough to make one puke, eh?
This is the same loser who cut all medical coverage to poor children in MN. In fact, a popular slogan in MN is 'Living with less in the land of Pawlenty'.
McCain is insane. Period. Good luck, Pawlenty, now you can do to the rest of the country what you accomplished in Minnesota.
January 16th, 2007 at 2:36 pm(Flip-Flop) McCain should've listened...
...to himself...
...when will they EVER learn...
...riding on Bushiva's coattails...
...is like holding on to the tail of a galloping horse...
...that's got the sh*ts...
January 16th, 2007 at 2:37 pmWhat in the hell does John McCain know about war. He sat in a jail cell for 5 years during Vit Nam, it's go along to get along and if thats flip flop so be it.
January 16th, 2007 at 2:38 pmFor god's sake, don't dare tell Tim Russert or Chris Matthews about this. Their heads might explode.
January 16th, 2007 at 2:42 pm"I was against the war... before I was for it."
Flop-Flip
January 16th, 2007 at 2:46 pmStraight talk from a forked tongue.
January 16th, 2007 at 2:46 pmI think Jon McCain has totally lost it. He is no maverick ... Ever since he lost the Republican nomination in 2000 he has been doin everything he can to become president whether or not it means taking straight or not so much. However, diggin up a quote from 1990, he would argue and I would agree, the world has changed a lot since then. And anyway, you can find, and have found, plenty of stupid flip-floppy stuff the man has said more recently. I'd stick to finding more of those.
January 16th, 2007 at 2:47 pmmay have been covered elsewhere, but i heard on franken that
January 16th, 2007 at 2:50 pmfocus on the family has announced they will NOT support mccave in 08...
ouch... wonder which way he'll turn now...
In 2000 I thought I might vote for this joker if he beat out Bush. At this point I have no clue who he even is or what he stands for... the rightwingers on the other hands dream up whatever they want to believe ...and then believe it. So to the right it doesnt matter what McCain actually stands for I guess.
January 16th, 2007 at 3:05 pmMcCain -- Insane
January 16th, 2007 at 3:27 pmAt one time, McCain was a straight talker -- unfortunately, no longer. Perhaps he has never recovered from the unfounded bashing he suffered from W in the past, because only the loss of one's rationality would allow a man to cave in to and embrace the forces that would destroy him in a heartbeat.
January 16th, 2007 at 4:05 pmMcCain would do better to leave government, and devote his time to veterans' issues, rather than reach for the presidency because that time has past for him.
Come to think of it, Cheeks spilled the beans on his fellow soldiers while a POW.
January 16th, 2007 at 4:12 pmBush 'tortured' him in the '00 campaign.
Is he suffering from the 'Stockholm Syndrome', where one begins to support their 'captors'?
That may explain some of the stupid crap coming out of his mouth now.
WAR WITH AMERICA - Iran dont wait for the start try a pre-emtive stike
1/ Iranian place 40-50 kilos of nerve gas smuggled into Mexican borders for release into Atmoshere over all republican states
January 16th, 2007 at 4:28 pm2/ Fishing boats of the coast of America with Anthrax for sailing upwind easterly and westerly
3/ Cans of Nerve agent for undergrounds in New York etc
4/ Sunni and Shia Militias ready to take on troops in Iraq
5/ Nerve agents placed on Missiles for attacks in Isreal
6/ Target Isreali Nuclear plants
7/ North Korea and Pakistan should sell a couple Nukes to Iran to be smuggled in helm of Yachts into San Francisco bay and New York
8/ Hit Oil Terminals In Middle East
9/ Use Iranian Submarines to Release Nerve agents on Florida coast
10/ HighJack Airliners to crash into American Nuclear Power stations
11/ Take no American Prisoners of war and waterboard them to death on Video for Live Leak
12/ Im Sure you can do better than this But its a start
Someone should smack is ugly face.
January 16th, 2007 at 6:55 pmThat was before the Iraqis attacked us... oh wait, mean... before the Saudis attacked us. So before the Saudis attacked us, it was not ok to trade blood with.... uh... Iraqis.... aaaaaaand.... look, it's hard work. Let Bush figure it out, he was able to figure out so much else, he can handle this.
January 16th, 2007 at 8:18 pm[...] Think Progress » Straight talk: John McCain “If you get involved in a major ground war in the Saudi desert, I think support will erode significantly. Nor should it be supported. We cannot even contemplate, in my view, trading American blood for Iraqi blood.†— Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), New Yor (tags: johnmccain flipflop saudiarabia oil) Share This Close [...]
January 16th, 2007 at 9:14 pmMy my my, how things SEEM to change in a "post 9/11 world" ©. Too bad for the GOP the reality didn't change too.
January 16th, 2007 at 11:46 pmDo as I say, not as I do. Like Bush, spreading 'democracy' in Iraq while stealing elections at home. Spreading 'freedom' in the Middle East while diminishing our own rights to zip, nada, bupkiss. Terrorizing the entire world population for no good reason whatsoever. 9/11? The US had that coming. That's what you get for decades of extortion, oppression and totalitarian imperialism/colonization. America DESERVED 9/11 for its ego-tripping. We may think we're powerful but we're not alone on this planet and there are others that we should LEARN TO TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION. Iraq did not DESERVE this filthy war but hey, it's just life, it's not like it's the end of the world to anyone. A Catastrophuck!
January 17th, 2007 at 6:46 am