CNN: Military Sources Respond To McCain’s Escalation Remark With ‘Laughter Down The Line’
CNN: Military Sources Respond To McCain’s Escalation Remark With ‘Laughter Down The Line’
Yesterday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) told radio host Bill Bennett that President Bush’s escalation is working. “There are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk through those neighborhoods, today,” he said. Today, when CNN’s Wolf Blitzer asked McCain why Americans still aren’t able to safely leave the Green Zone in Iraq, the senator replied that Blitzer was giving three-month-old talking points:
General Petraeus goes out there almost every day in an unarmed humvee. I think you oughta catch up. You are giving the old line of three months ago. I understand it. We certainly don’t get it through the filter of some of the media.
But according to CNN reporter Michael Ware, who has been in Iraq for four years, McCain is “way off base.” He stated, “To suggest that there’s any neighborhood in this city where an American can walk freely is beyond ludicrous. I’d love Sen. McCain to tell me where that neighborhood is and he and I can go for a stroll.”
Ware also rebutted McCain’s assertion that Petaeus travels in an unarmed humvee: “[I]n the hour since Sen. McCain’s said this, I’ve spoken to military sources and there was laughter down the line. I mean, certainly the general travels in a humvee. There’s multiple humvees around it, heavily armed.” Watch it:
(Crooks and Liars has more.)
Transcript:
BLITZER: Sen. John McCain suggests that is crackdown is already working. I asked him about that in the last hour.
[BLITZER CLIP]: Here’s what you told Bill Bennett on his radio show on Monday. “There are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk through those neighborhoods, today. The U.S. is beginning to succeed in Iraq.”
Everything we hear if you leave the so-called Green Zone, the international zone, and you go outside of that secure area, relatively speaking, you’re in trouble if you’re an American.
[McCAIN CLIP]: That’s where you ought to catch up on things, Wolf. General Petraeus goes out there almost every day in an unarmed humvee. I think you oughta catch up. You are giving the old line of three months ago. I understand it. We certainly don’t get it through the filter of some of the media. But I know for a fact that much of the success we’re experiencing, including the ability of Americans in many parts. Not all, we have a long, long way to go. We’ve only got two of the five brigades here to go into some neighborhoods in Baghdad in a secure fashion.
BLIZTER: Sen. John McCain, a Republican presidential candidate speaking here in The Situation Room within the past hour. Let’s go live to Baghdad right now. CNN’s Michael Ware is standing by. Michael, you’ve been there for four years, you’re walking around Baghdad on a daily basis. Has there been this improvement that Sen. McCain is speaking about?
WARE: Well, I’d certainly like to bring Sen. McCain up to speed if he ever gives me the opportunity. And if I have any difficulty hearing you right now Wolf, that’s because of the helicopters circling overhead and the gun battle that is blazing away just a few blocks down the road. Is Baghdad any safer? Sectarian violence, one particular type of violence, is down. But none of the American generals here on the ground have anything like Sen. McCain’s confidence. I mean, Sen. McCain’s credibility now on Iraq, which has been so solid to this point, is now being left out hanging to dry. To suggest that there’s any neighborhood in this city where an American can walk freely is beyond ludicrous. I’d love Sen. McCain to tell me where that neighborhood is and he and I can go for a stroll.
And to think that Gen. David Petraeus travels this city in an unarmed humvee? I mean, in the hour since Sen. McCain’s said this, I’ve spoken to military sources and there was laughter down the line. I mean, certainly the general travels in a humvee. There’s multiple humvees around it, heavily armed. There’s attack helicopters, predator drones, sniper teams, all sorts of layers of protection. So, no, Sen. McCain is way off base on this one.
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March 27th, 2007 at 6:39 pmI’ll believe Brian Williams at NBC over this schmuck.
March 27th, 2007 at 6:40 pmI love Michael Ware. I hate CNN.
March 27th, 2007 at 6:41 pmI say, McCain should go for a stroll ontside the green zone on a Sunday afternoon and the tell us how safe it is.
March 27th, 2007 at 6:43 pmOps, that lie had a stunningly short half life. Next!
March 27th, 2007 at 6:44 pmGO CNN!!!
March 27th, 2007 at 6:44 pmI’ll believe Brian Williams at NBC over this schmuck.
Comment by Jake — March 27, 2007 @ 6:40 pm
Your opinion matters to *whom*, exactly? Mmm.., that would be to your *momma*! The rest of us laugh at you, as much as we laugh at McCain! You’re just another checked out, lying piece of trailer trash!
March 27th, 2007 at 6:44 pmSend unbelieving ReichWingNuts to Iraq so they can see for themselves what’s “working” and what’s not.
March 27th, 2007 at 6:45 pmReports from the Lunatic Left…
March 27th, 2007 at 6:45 pmEhhemmm. Just the other day…….
27mar07
SELIM AMER’S wife had been badgering him to take her out of the house. She had not been out since giving birth three months, ago and was getting restless.
He knew the streets of Amel, in southwest Baghdad, were dangerous. But at the weekend he finally relented and walked his wife to the local market to buy ice cream and do some shopping. He took his brother as an extra precaution.
What they witnessed on the way was worse than they could have imagined — even after four years of war — and would rip apart their mixed Sunni-Shia neighbourhood in a frenzy of hatred and bloodlust.
Near the shops, a group of children — Sunni and Shia — were playing football on an empty site. As Mr Amer, his wife and brother walked past, two cars pulled up. Four or five men in tracksuits got out and opened their car boots. They pulled out belt-fed BKC machineguns, a weapon known in Iraq as “the harvester” for its ability to kill many people quickly.
“We heard the shooting of the machineguns. It was so loud and continuous we thought they were targeting us,” the 28-year-old Shia man said, his eyes red and brimming with pain.
But they were not the targets. “I started looking, and they were shooting the kids,” he said. “Eight of the kids already fell on the ground. The guys kept shooting, they just wanted to make sure everyone was dead.”
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,21452353,00.html
March 27th, 2007 at 6:45 pmJake, why don’t you get a handful of flowers and walk around baghdad neighborhoods (unarmed) and hand them out.
March 27th, 2007 at 6:46 pmJake, your faith based logic will keep you and your party mired in the 29% approval ratings.
Keep up the good work!
Also, nice work to see Bush negotiate with North Korea and give up money for peace. I thought they didn’t negotiate with “evil”?
Also, Zal Khalilzad the US ambassador to Iraq says he has been talking to Iraqi insurgent groups. I thought that we didn’t negotiate with evil.
Well, who expects honesty from an administration that has had three top level employees convicted of obstructing justice and lying to congress.
-GSD
March 27th, 2007 at 6:47 pmThe time between neocon lies and debunkings of said lies is getting shorter every day.
At this rate, by 2008, a neocon lie will last roughly 4.625 seconds before debunking. The liars will have their hands full. ^_^
March 27th, 2007 at 6:48 pmThis is the spin the GOP is going to use to get out of Iraq. They’ll claim that the situation is getting better no matter what.
March 27th, 2007 at 6:48 pmRepublicans and other trolls love to deny facts. They make a living at it. Any comments, trolls?
March 27th, 2007 at 6:49 pmReports from the Lunatic Left…
Comment by Flaco — March 27, 2007 @ 6:45 pm
McCain says it’s safe to walk around Iraq. Go there, and send pictures. Otherwise you’re just posting *reports* from the Lunatic Right based on lies. Oh wait, that’s already established!!! Idiot!! BHAAHAHAHA
March 27th, 2007 at 6:53 pmTime for Keith Olbermann to point this out.
March 27th, 2007 at 6:53 pmCome on Jake. If you believe McCain, go on vacation in Baghdad, and send us some pictures? Ok dweeb? Nah, you’re too much of a *coward* to put your own fat *ss on the line – right Rovie?
March 27th, 2007 at 6:53 pmHow much money can a troll actually earn? Maybe I shoud switch jobs :).
March 27th, 2007 at 6:54 pmDid anyone else see the headline on this thread change re: laughter?
March 27th, 2007 at 6:55 pmLOL I literally spit out water laughing when Michael Ware shot down McCain’s claims. Ware eloquently and unabashedly let McCain have it! If only CNN was able to hook up McCain to Baghdad to let him speak to a reporter there…that would have been CLASSIC!
March 27th, 2007 at 6:55 pmThis is the spin the GOP is going to use to get out of Iraq. They’ll claim that the situation is getting better no matter what.
Comment by PoliticalCritic — March 27, 2007 @ 6:48 pm
… they. don’t. WANT. out. …
March 27th, 2007 at 6:55 pm…
imo …
Maybe McCain and Richard Perle can go on a little stroll down “George W. Bush Blvd.” in Baghdad and stop by the Paul Bremer Democracy Insititute on their way to Rumsfeld Park.
March 27th, 2007 at 6:56 pmMcCain is a pathetic fool.
March 27th, 2007 at 6:58 pmAccording to Waco Flaco, if Michael Ware had said, “Oh, it’s lovely here! We’re greeted with flowers and candy every day! Plan your next vacation in beautiful downtown Baghdad!” then Ware wouldn’t be a lunatic.
March 27th, 2007 at 7:01 pmCome on tough guy Jake, go to Baghdad and tell us how much freedom reigns. Give us a first hand report…that is if you have any hands that aren’t blown off or a throat that isn’t sliced through and through. Come on, tough guy. Let’s see how far your reality gets you.
March 27th, 2007 at 7:01 pmI see the usual sycophantic whores are duly defending Bush’s War. Flacopitito and the Joke are pissing away at the keyboard.
How do you pendejos type with blood of our soldiers on your hands? F*ck the facts, you have our ideology. The BIG syndrome, Bush Is God. Worship at the altar of Bush, blow the high priest KKKarl.
Do you have to swallow? Bummer.
March 27th, 2007 at 7:02 pmMcLame is an complete and perfectly formed A$$HOLE!!!
March 27th, 2007 at 7:03 pmhijacking VVGFU’s name? he must have got under some thin troll skin, bwhahahahahahaahahah
March 27th, 2007 at 7:06 pmVoting record is up back on the “Breaking” thread.
March 27th, 2007 at 7:06 pmDid Wolf check McCain’s diaper after that outburst? The cheese is sliding of McCain’s cracker faster than I thought.
Maybe there is an exhaust leak in the Straight Talk Express thatis giving McCain carbon monoxide poisoning.
-GSD
March 27th, 2007 at 7:06 pmWell now we know where the armour that was supposed to protect our boys’ humvee went; to keep Gen. Pat-My-Ass safe.
March 27th, 2007 at 7:07 pmHoChiMinh should have kept mcmain in the Hanoi zoo where he belongs.
March 27th, 2007 at 7:09 pmhijacking VVGFU’s name? he must have got under some thin troll skin, bwhahahahahahaahahah
Comment by John
No kidding. I noticed that too.
March 27th, 2007 at 7:10 pmBack in the early 60’s we had a Major who said: “It takes real talent to f*** up a war and your government has done just that. You have a 95% chance of surviving this fiasco. Take that as a positive note.”
March 27th, 2007 at 7:11 pmFrom the look’s and sound’s of mccane’s speeches he will get a special jacket before the rep. convention…Talk about looney tunes…So sad….Blessings
March 27th, 2007 at 7:12 pmBush Is God?
Not even close.
March 27th, 2007 at 7:12 pmThe VVGFU imposter sounds like the buttboy Darryll.
Another BIG idiot.
March 27th, 2007 at 7:13 pmWell blow me over! It is not Daryll posing as VVGFU, it’s our little puto Flacoputo. You are busted joto!
En su culo!
March 27th, 2007 at 7:16 pmIt’s is a war zone idiots not Central Park!
March 27th, 2007 at 7:18 pmMichael Ware and Christiana Amanpour are the only intelligent unbiased journalists on mainstreammedia. Other good ones can be seen on Democracy Now if your satellite gets FreeSpeechTV or LinkTV.
March 27th, 2007 at 7:21 pmnice job John, you’re only a step above the “Iraq is safer than D.C.” crowd.
March 27th, 2007 at 7:21 pm#42. Tell that to McCain, idiot!
March 27th, 2007 at 7:22 pmOye nanlichi puto!
March 27th, 2007 at 7:23 pmCalmate pendejo
It’s is a war zone idiots not Central Park!
Comment by Flaco — March 27, 2007 @ 7:18 pm
Does Senator McCain know that you Conservatives think he’s an *idiot*?
March 27th, 2007 at 7:25 pmCalmate pendejo
Comment by Flaco — March 27, 2007 @ 7:23 pm
The smell points to you – pendejo ;)
March 27th, 2007 at 7:26 pmIt’s a war zone, finally you got one right Flacojoto.
That’s exactly the point. To be precise, it’s a civil war zone. To put a point on it, it’s a civil war zone where we are losing our soldiers because dumbf*ck Bush had to exercise his swollen ego.
But you BIG guys think his ego is more important than the lives of our soldiers.
You are sick, vile and disgusting pukes.
Gotta catch a plane, let’s chat again real soon.
chupalaverga.
March 27th, 2007 at 7:26 pmMcCain needs a “strait jacket.” Bush gangsters have produced two quagmires in the Middle East and are itching to make Iran their No. 3 Quagmire…
Another occupation of Bush fascist imperial aggression bites the dust. Afghanistan is another debacle by the Bush gangsters. No western power has ever successfully occupied Afghanistan in the last 150 years, so don’t hold your breath for the USA and NATO… The forerunners of both the Taliban and the el Queda were created by our CIA under Reagan to harass the Soviets in Afghanistan. I guess that we don’t care much for our own handiwork…
March 27th, 2007 at 7:26 pmI think ‘the Maverick’ is getting senile.
March 27th, 2007 at 7:27 pmhijacking VVGFU’s name? he must have got under some thin troll skin, bwhahahahahahaahahah Comment by John — March 27, 2007 @ 7:06 pm
That’s Flaco, he’s a weak little pendejo coward! Poor little b*st*rd!! That’s what happens when your dad r*pes his sister – you get Flaco!
March 27th, 2007 at 7:27 pmI love it that Ware’s sources were laughing openly at
March 27th, 2007 at 7:28 pmLieberman (Traitor-CT)
John McCain(R)-Neverland
March 27th, 2007 at 7:31 pmI just reported it.
Seems he highjacked my name on the Drudge thread.
I’m really angry.
March 27th, 2007 at 7:32 pmSo uncool.
Michael Ware has proved his credibility over the years in Iraq. He has been spot on with his reports and just because he doesn’t paint everything a nice rosy shade of pink, the warmongering reichwingers think he’s off base. This, of course, from their comfortable La-Z-y Boys in front of their TVs tuned to FOX. After all O’Reilly, Hannity, Hume et al. are the experts.
March 27th, 2007 at 7:32 pmAs for McCain, we have noticed over the last year that he seems to be losing it; he often contradicts himself, he gets his facts wrong, and he is likely growing ever more frustrated not only at his own faults, but also because his campaign is now in financial trouble.
He should consider retiring from politics. It’s time now.
re: #50
Except it should be said “to draw the Soviets into Afghanistan” because the support for the Islamic fundamentalists came first—-and then the Soviets were drawn into the country because they did not want a fundamentalist Islamic state on their border. Everyone should read William Blum.
March 27th, 2007 at 7:35 pmMcCain is campaigning and wrongly thinks he has to say this BS to get the Republican nomination.
March 27th, 2007 at 7:37 pmIt’s all about republicans, and it’s all bad. end….?. or certainly not.
March 27th, 2007 at 7:40 pmThe NBC Nightly News led tonight’s newscast with a segment on the Senate vote. In this segment they showed McCain blathering on the Senate floor about how the “surge” is working.
Probably less than a minute after McCain’s idiotic (and treacherous) words were given full play, in the very next segment, they reported both about the 60-plus people killed today in a single Iraq bombing and the two people killed today in the Green Zone from a rocket attack.
Brian Williams did not note the tragic irony…go figure.
March 27th, 2007 at 7:47 pmMcCain has lost the plot….
How about we have a whip round to ship a troll out to Baghdad….. and then a pool to see how long they last….?
March 27th, 2007 at 7:48 pmWell, Whizz Bang, Brian Williams was in the Green Zone himself just last week, right?
March 27th, 2007 at 7:50 pmMIchael Ware is the Crocodile Hunter of the show Life from Baghdad. Or maybe Rod Serling meets Steve Irwin. His articulation with his passion and accent actually make me look forward to hearing his reports. Unlike Aneesh Raman he looks like he stops to breathe. Can anyone in the TV media actually admit where they’re broadcasting from?
March 27th, 2007 at 7:56 pmJake, that was merely a hologram. He was actually lounging safely in The GOP Matrix.
March 27th, 2007 at 7:57 pmTime for Keith Olbermann to point this out.
Comment by hellinabucket
I do like what he said last night about DeLay’s segment of the book where he likened Democrats to Hitler….hubby and I were laughing our butts off….
March 27th, 2007 at 8:04 pmThat’s your “answer” Whizz Bang?
March 27th, 2007 at 8:05 pmWhat did he say, Proud Dem?
March 27th, 2007 at 8:08 pmLet’s see. We’ve got a reporter who has been in Baghdad for four years and has actually traveled outside the Green Zone. Then we have a Senator who may have popped in to the Green Zone once or twice (has he?) and a “journalist” from NBC who was in . . . the Green Zone. Who are you going to believe?
I’m surprised McCain was dumb enough to make this claim on CNN. True, they’ve been incredibly supine over the years, but if he’d made the claim on FauxNews there would have been no response except “See! See! No cut and run! No slow bleed!”
Asshats. Nice work by CNN to immediately debunk McCain’s claim as the steaming load of crap it is. That’s the only way to deal with lies, because the longer they hang out there, the more they stink up the joint.
March 27th, 2007 at 8:18 pmJake sez:
Watch it for yourself.
March 27th, 2007 at 8:20 pmDidn’t McCain fail to meet his campaign’s fund raising goals for the last quarter??? Doesn’t surprise me!
March 27th, 2007 at 8:20 pmMcCain is using the “take no prisoners” Republican style of authoritarianism on this issue. It is based on the premise that going on the offensive and demeaning the questioner is more effective than telling the truth.
March 27th, 2007 at 8:22 pmEXACTLY AS I POINTED OUT IN THE EARLIER POST #150 in ThinkFast: march 27, 2007: THAT McPAIN WOULD BE INSTANTLY KILLED IF HE DARED TO ACTUALLY “walk through–today” THOSE NEIGHBOURHOODS—–HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH!!!!!!!
March 27th, 2007 at 8:22 pmJUST ADDING MY CHORTLES TO THE LAUGHTER DOWN THE LINE—–McPAIN, YOU STUPID PASTY-FACED, FLIP-FLOPPING SCHIZOID MADMAN AND LYING SACK OF repugnant-repub rightwingnut crank fudge-pachyderm HYENA-SHIT and ROTTEN SEWER RAT!!!!! YA WILL NEVER BE PRESIDENT OF AMERICA IN A MILLION YEARS, YA LYING CRAZY SAP!!!!!
Progressives – In advance, I apologize to each and every one of you. I waited patiently for TP to demonstrate the “moral superiority” progressives seem to think they alone posess and could find NO mention here or anywhere in the Left-blogosphere re: yet another NYT “mistake”. Gleefully reporting on problems in the military seems to hold strange fascination for liberals so please explain the abysmal vetting job the NY did in reporting a military “rape”. From Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler:
“The New York Slimes has been running a story about a poor oppressed womyn in the Armed Forces who was raped and is now suffering under horrible mental consequences from her deployment to Iraq.
Fetching story, isn’t it? Well, it would be if it weren’t for the fact that the nearest she’s ever been to Iraq was Guam.
The New York Slimes are now excusing themselves by noting that the poor woman is mentally disturbed and might be convinced that she was deployed to Iraq. Oh, and of course, by chastising the Navy for not doing the job that no New York Slimes “journalists†will do, which is vetting their sources before going to print.”
So in as much as TP has pulled the Media heading, I KNEW progs would enjoy hearing “fair and balanced” reporting from the “newspaper of record” (And you wonder why I wouldn’t wrap dead fish in that pathetic publication?)
Remember this as you curl up with your Sunday New York Times…..
March 27th, 2007 at 8:55 pm“fair and balanced†reporting from the “newspaper of recordâ€
This is the New York Times of Judith ‘Ahmed Chalabi said so, so it must be true’ Miller fame? They have a history of being very late to apologize for anything, so don’t hold your breath, MA. How’s that Marine Colonel Fantasy husband of yours? http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0526-09.htm
March 27th, 2007 at 9:01 pmVenus,
Sounds like the lady in the military was almost as nutty as you.
March 27th, 2007 at 9:02 pmProgressives hate the NewYorkTimes and WashPost for reporting the lies about Iraq’s WMD’s as if they were facts—–a hell of a lot more important than your little story!
March 27th, 2007 at 9:05 pmRemember this as you curl up with your Sunday New York Times…..
Comment by valiant venus
Have some cupcakes and a smoke, Hagfish, you’re decompensating.
March 27th, 2007 at 9:34 pmMcain is the atypical fat white man. His paunches and self is so infalted with scum and entitlement you can almost see it ooze out of his eyeballs. He doesn’t even seem to take himself seriously, as if it’s all a big joe.
He is toast…stick a fork in him…he’s well done.
I give him few more weeks and he’ll be hanging it up. It’s really quite fun to see his straight talk express implode on it’s own foul smelling fumes and bullshit.
March 27th, 2007 at 9:37 pmAm I the only one disappointed to see McCain pathetically going down in flames? He’s actually got some anti-corporatist bona-fides (unlike certain Democratic candidates who’ve worked for Mal-Wart), and used to be a pretty convincing voice for the fiscally conservative/socially libertarian branch of the Republican party. Watching him whore away the last of his credibility is depressing to some of us. BTW, I’ll be more impressed when I see a main stream journalist give that kind of bitch-slap to Cheney.
March 27th, 2007 at 10:04 pmJohn McCain is Bush’s beotch.I believe he may have smoked one too many saigon bombers.I can’t believe anyone would listen to a man that has to ask one of his aids what his stand was on a particular issue.Ignore him and he will go away.
March 27th, 2007 at 10:05 pmThe New York Slimes are now excusing themselves by noting that the poor woman is mentally disturbed and might be convinced that she was deployed to Iraq. Oh, and of course, by chastising the Navy for not doing the job that no New York Slimes “journalists†will do, which is vetting their sources before going to print.†Comment by valiant venus — March 27, 2007 @ 8:55 pm
So they admitted their *witness* lied to them? No wonder you’re *cornfused* – b*tch – you’re used to Fox News *never* admitting their lies! That just makes you a st*pid c*nt!! BAHAHAHAA
So in as much as TP has pulled the Media heading, I KNEW progs would enjoy hearing “fair and balanced†reporting from the “newspaper of record†(And you wonder why I wouldn’t wrap dead fish in that pathetic publication?)
Remember this as you curl up with your Sunday New York Times…..
Comment by valiant venus — March 27, 2007 @ 8:55 pm
As opposed to all of the missing white women on Fox? Or them accusing Obama of attending a madrassa? Sorry, but the only *dead-fish* smell coming from in here – comes from you! Wash once in a while – will you?
March 27th, 2007 at 10:08 pmMcCain can kiss his presidential bid good bye…. Im glad we still find some good honest news in the media such as CNN. How else is the public going to witness the real happenings around the world. Its a blessing when a fine reporter can cut right through the lies and misleading facts the Republican Party is so famous for. And so right up to the minute.
March 27th, 2007 at 10:44 pmEveryone needs to get off of John McCain’s back right now. He meant Bagdad, Florida is safer now, not the the Baghdad in Iraq. If you listen to the radio interview you can clearly not hear the silent H.
Seriously though, John McCain has made so many blunders in the first couple of months of the campaign I don’t see how he will ever get the nomination. All this people supporting the war as going swimmingly are like a used car salesman telling you that this car is the pick of the lot, even though you see the four flats, see the oil slick underneath and smell the stink of the gas leak. “Yes, this is a great car, one owner, a little old lady that just drove it to church on Sunday.” I’m sure the new Leader of the UN noticed how well things are going, and the 65 that died today are probably kicking themselves for not sticking to the safe parts of town.
March 27th, 2007 at 11:04 pmLooks like the “straight talk express” has been de-railed and turned into the “crazy train express”. I think this puts the nail in the coffin as to McCains 2008 presidential hopes.
March 27th, 2007 at 11:09 pmMcCain is one of the ‘Lost Boys’ from NeverNeverLand. Bush is Bushler Pan, Condi is Tinkerbell, there’s the scary and mean peglegged Capn’ Dick the pirate, and of course Joseph Lieberman is magnificent in the role of the beautiful Wendy. Narcissists one and all, who think they don’t have to follow rules, who never want to grow up and take responsibility and perfect examples of the Peter Pan Syndrome.
March 27th, 2007 at 11:22 pm[...] according to CNN reporter Michael Ware, who has been in Iraq for four years, McCain is “way off base.†He stated, “To suggest that there’s any neighborhood in this city where an American can [...]
March 28th, 2007 at 12:18 amthe establishment may be incompetent alright! But it sure has helped us ADJUST! It’s working!
March 28th, 2007 at 12:52 am#86 Adjust to fascism. We obey the fuhrer!!!
March 28th, 2007 at 1:23 am[...] Responds To McCain’s Escalation Remark w/ ‘Laughter Down The Line’ Military Responds To McCain’s Escalation Remark w/ ‘Laughter Down The Line’ CNN’s Baghdad correspondent Michael Ware rebutted Sen. John McCain’s statement that [...]
March 28th, 2007 at 1:39 am[...] as 600,000 Iraqis may have been killed and despite the incoherent “straight talk” of Senator McCain Iraq is nowhere near being stable and the presence of U.S. troops doesn’t seem to help, The [...]
March 28th, 2007 at 1:41 am[...] Ware also disputes McCain’s claim that General Petraeus travels in an unarmed Humvee. “[I]n the hour since Sen. McCain’s said [...]
March 28th, 2007 at 1:51 amI would suggest that the Shites arent to happy with the security plan themselves.
Dozens of Sunnis slain in Tal Afar
Up to 50 killed in apparent reprisal for truck bombings in Iraqi Shiite area
Reuters
Updated: 2:59 a.m. ET March 28, 2007
BAGHDAD – Gunmen stormed a Sunni district in the northwestern Iraqi town of Tal Afar overnight, killing dozens in apparent reprisal for deadly truck bombings in a Shiite area, Iraqi officials said on Wednesday.
Police, military and health officials said as many as 50 men were killed in the attack on the Sunni district of al-Wahda in the volatile town, whose residents are a mixture of Shiites, Sunni Arabs and Turkmen, near the Syrian border,
“I wish you can come and see all the bodies. They are lying in the grounds. We don’t have enough space in the hospital. All of the victims were shot in the head,†a doctor at the main hospital told Reuters by telephone.
“No less than 45 people were killed. I’ve never seen such a thing in my life,†said the doctor, who refused to be named because he said he feared for his life.
Police and military officials said 50 had been killed when gunmen rampaged through the neighborhood on Tuesday evening. They said all the victims were men.
The attacks follow an upsurge in violence in Baghdad and outside the capital in recent days. U.S. and Iraqi security forces have deployed thousands more soldiers in Baghdad to try to stem a sectarian war threatening to tear the country apart.
In Tuesday’s truck bombings in Tal Afar, one suicide bomber lured victims to buy wheat loaded on his truck in a Shiite neighborhood. A second truck bomb exploded in a used car lot. The attacks killed 63 people and wounded more than 150.
In 2006, President Bush held up Tal Afar as an example of progress being made in Iraq after U.S.-led forces freed it from al-Qaida in an offensive the previous year.
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URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17826030/
March 28th, 2007 at 4:02 amWho would have ever thought the US and Iran supporting the same group with Arms. Gotta love the Republicans.
The Shite Police are the ones infiltrated with our Army.
So basically we are arming the death squads.
: Policemen go on killing spree
By SINAN SALAHEDDIN, Associated Press Writer 36 minutes ago
BAGHDAD – Security and police officials said off-duty Shiite policemen enraged by massive bombings in the northern town of Tal Afar went on a revenge killing spree there Wednesday, gunning down an unspecified number of Sunni residents.
They said the policemen began roaming the town’s Sunni neighborhoods early in the morning, shooting at Sunni residents and homes.
Dozens of Sunnis were killed or wounded, they said, but they had no precise figures. The shooting continued for more than two hours, the officials said.
Army troops later moved into the Sunni areas to stop the violence, said the officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
Two truck bombs hit markets in Tal Afar Tuesday, killing at least 63 people.
March 28th, 2007 at 4:08 am[...] w/ ‘Laughter Down The Line’ Filed under: Uncategorized — recar @ 10:02 am Military Responds To McCain’s Escalation Remark w/ ‘Laughter Down The Line’ CNN’s Baghdad correspondent Michael Ware rebutted Sen. John McCain’s statement that [...]
March 28th, 2007 at 6:09 amWhy hasn’t the so-called news media reported McCain’s factually asinine comments about the General’s safety in an unarmed humvee. I don’t see any headlines from ABC, CBS, Fox, or even CNN when I search for key terms in this interview. If one of the “liberals” against the war had said something this asinine, the “news” media would have been all over it. If a person is so misinformed on his facts, then how can we put any reliance on his “predictions” and “opinions”??
Morell E. Mullins
March 28th, 2007 at 7:07 amMcain was talking about another Bagdad – this is a simple misunderstanding…
March 28th, 2007 at 8:14 amToo bad that reporter has never left the Green Zone. His hotel probably has all the backdrops he needs to do reporting “anywhere” in the city from the comfort of his 3rd story room.
Too bad that Detroit has a higher crime rate than Baghdad.
March 28th, 2007 at 8:32 amGod help America! It will destroy itself with no help needed by outside ‘enemies’. I love George for this.
March 28th, 2007 at 8:33 am[...] latest statement about how safe Iraq is, just smacks of political [...]
March 28th, 2007 at 8:47 amThe fact that we have a man of this low caliber as one of the so-called front runners just goes to show how ignorant we are as a nation. McCain should have been dismissed years ago to the dustbin of small minds.
March 28th, 2007 at 9:42 amMichael Ware is the best war journalist/reporter since David Bloom. He puts his life on the line and speaks truth to power. Unfortunately, McCain gave that up long ago. McCain should drop out of the race, because he can’t win anymore on credibility. It pains me to see a war hero become a laughing stock.
March 28th, 2007 at 9:59 amJohn McCain, like the rest of the shrinking Republican minority still supporting the war in Iraq, is grabbing at straws. Even as a Democrat, I’ve respected McCain for his forthrightness. Now, he seems just as desperate as the President is to attempt to bolster support for failed and failing policy. I thought McCain had more integrity than this. He seems to have gone over to the “dark-side.”
March 28th, 2007 at 10:38 am[...] escalation in Iraq is going so well, “General Petraeus goes out there almost every day in an unarmed humvee.” On Monday, he said that there “are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could [...]
March 28th, 2007 at 10:48 am“I’ll believe Brian Williams at NBC over this schmuck…Comment by Jake”
So Jake, what makes him a schmuck? Is he a schmuck because he is brave enough to report from Baghdad (for 4 years)? Or is he a schmuck because he is telling the truth?
So Jake, why have you not enlisted? Why are you not in Iraq? It’s so safe now, your tour would be a cake-walk.
March 28th, 2007 at 10:53 am“We should support our troops and let President Bush do his job. He is a great leader and I would vote for him again. Comment by ValiantVenusGrewFromUranus”
So ValiantVenus, when are you going to enlist and go to Iraq. That’s the best way you can “support our troops” and support Mr. Bush. He will be very grateful to you and will honor you when you come home in a body bag.
March 28th, 2007 at 10:59 amThis really is a shame, but we’d have a lot more information in general, and politicians wouldn’t be so bold as to make ridiculous claims like this, if the Fairness Doctrine was reinstated.
March 28th, 2007 at 11:09 amWe should support our troops and let President Bush do his job. He is a great leader and I would vote for him again.
Comment by ValiantVenusGrewFromUranus —
I hope you are being sarcastic, otherwise, you are completely delusional:(
March 28th, 2007 at 12:18 pm@Kate Henry
All I see you spout off about is how people must enlist and fight to support the troops.
Are you really that brain dead to believe that line? It is without a doubt the one of the most ludicrous thing I’ve ever heard that in order to support the troops one must enlist and go fight.
Are you just lacking in any intellectual capability to add anything to a dialogue that you have to attack someones patriotism simply because they have not enlisted?
Are you so clueless that you can’t comprehend how some people for a variety of reasons can support the troops in many many other ways without enlisting?
March 28th, 2007 at 12:24 pmWe should support our troops and let President Bush do his job. He is a great leader and I would vote for him again.
Comment by ValiantVenusGrewFromUranus —
I agree with this comment and I’m not delusional.
We actually have a President that leads rather then letting the polls wag his tail.
Letting the people decide policy through polling of the people is no way to run a country much less a war. I wont get into the reasons why but they should be readily apparent just by browsing an average blog like this one.
The last thing this country needs to is a ‘leader’ that gets elected and then lets the people through polling results lead for him and decide any policy much less national security policy.
March 28th, 2007 at 12:31 pmPaaaa-eeeease, I just got finished sending senator McCain an email explaining that I could hardly believ those kind of lies coming from a Vietnam vet and former POW. How could anyone sell out his fellow vets while saying he supports them and at the same time fabricate the “truth” about our status in Iraq? I believe that’s called selling our troops out and surely not supporting them. I would be surprised if he bothered to continue to run for office after that blunder.
March 28th, 2007 at 12:33 pm[...] McCain on Monday: “There are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk through those neighborhoods, today.†[...]
March 28th, 2007 at 12:47 pm“I’ll believe Brian Williams at NBC over this schmuck.”
Over McCain? ‘Spose.
March 28th, 2007 at 12:59 pm[...] “the U.S. Armed forces are in a position of strategic peril,” and — in contrast yesterday’s statements by Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) — found the situation in Iraq to be dire: There is no function of government that operates [...]
March 28th, 2007 at 2:10 pmYeah, I hate it when the president represents the people who elected him. We can’t have any of that now, can we?
March 28th, 2007 at 2:28 pm@bunnyr
So in order to represent the people a ‘leader’ has to make leadership decisions based on polling of the american people?
Doesn’t sound like leadership to me. When I elect leaders I expect them to lead and be more informed then me on issues that affect this country. I don’t elect them to lead and then look to me for leadership.
Do you really think the people as a whole are more knowledeable and capable of making informed decisions about what is best for the country?
We get to provide our input during elections based on who we trust to provide the leadership needed so we don’t have to stay informed on every single issue facing the country so we can live normal lives.
Any politician that makes policy based on polling is simply a professional politician more interested in staying in power rather then actually leading and doing what is best for the country.
March 28th, 2007 at 2:57 pmSomehow I suspect “being more informed” than you isn’t a very high threashold.
If they’re as poorly informed and compliant as you are, then the answer is know. Of course there’s a reason why the rethugs are so cheap when it comes to education: keep the people dumb and we can walk all over them. You’re just one more in a long line of compliant idiots.
“Normal” is doing your part as a citizen and being informed!! “Lazy” is what I call the position you state above.
March 28th, 2007 at 3:29 pmPlease, my fellow progressives! DO NOT sink to their level. These people remind me of the drowning man with only bubbles left as a reminder that they’re dead. Even their own troops don’t believe anymore, as you can tell by the vitriol. This administration has gone so far off the deep end that the only hope little georgie has for a legacy is if a muslim terrorist manages to give him a bowtie. They will self-destruct without our help, so let them search in vain for some “liberal conspiracy” to blame. In their deepest souls, they know they have screwed the pooch, and will not be back in my lifetime. Keep to the high road! Their talk of values and morals is just that- talk. The echo you hear is the leadership vacuum on the right. Do not help them fill it. Besides, my Dad always told me an angry man can’t think straight.
March 28th, 2007 at 3:31 pmWell said OldDavid!
March 28th, 2007 at 3:36 pmI was thinking of vacationing at the Baghdad Hilton in Sadr City thanks to McCain! You mean he might just be wrong???!!!
March 28th, 2007 at 4:02 pmHEY FREEBIRD YOU NEED TO GO BACK TO 6TH GRADE POLITICAL SCIENCE AND FIND OUT WHAT KIND OF GOVT. WE HAVE HERE IN THE U.S. IT IS NOT A DICTATORSHIP JUST YET. WHAT A MORON.
March 28th, 2007 at 4:32 pmI used to really like McCain, then he started towing the party line and now sounds exactly like every other repub.
It was refreshing previously to hear him voice his own ideas and discuss issues instead of spouting the “quote of the day” from the GOP.
I WOULD have voted for him for president (circa 2000-03), now i can’t even though i know he had to do this in order to get his party to support a presidential run, if you can’t stick to your guns no matter what i can trust you.
March 28th, 2007 at 5:18 pmIt’s is a war zone idiots not Central Park!
Today’s dose of unintended irony.
March 28th, 2007 at 5:54 pmIs Michael Weird’s nose out of joint because of McCain’s comment, or was he always this butt-ugly??
March 28th, 2007 at 6:26 pm[...] Military Sources Respond To McCain’s Escalation Remark With ‘Laughter Down The Line’ What is happening with John McCain? (tags: Iraq Politics John_McCain CNN Wolf_Blitzer) [...]
March 28th, 2007 at 7:21 pm[...] I’d love Sen. McCain to tell me where that neighborhood is and he and I can go for a stroll.†Click here to watch the [...]
March 28th, 2007 at 7:21 pm[...] has the video. It’s [...]
March 28th, 2007 at 8:10 pmYEEHAH!!! So now we at least have 2 people in agreement… McCain and Baghdad Bob… you all remember the Iraqi spokesman who during the bombings kept reporting to the Iraqi people “not to worry, everything is okay in Baghdad.”
Be happy… don’t worry… makumba matata my friends
Does anyone else think Dick Cheney sounds like a charm bracelet you’d buy at a porn shop?
March 29th, 2007 at 1:03 amVERY FUNNY CODYPUP!!!
March 29th, 2007 at 1:06 amDon’t make fun of my name, I have a shotgun and I know where you live.
Seriously people, I’ve never been a Richard, I’ve been a Dick all my life. Why do people laugh every time I say that?
@at all you weenies
I’d like to know how many of you stay so informed. Sound bites from corporate media? Blogs like these? Newspaper articles/editorials? Do you think you are getting reliable information that reflects both sides of an issue and that your are fully informed on any single issue?
It would be a full time job trying to stay informed on all the issues facing this nation. I watch CSPAN on occasion and even then I’m aware that I’m not fully informed.
I’d also like to know how many of you are privy to the intelligence briefings the President receives as well as certain senators that serve on the intelligence committees?
We elect leaders to do this for us so that we can purue other things in life like spend time with family/friends and have a career. You want to help determine policy after elections then become a politician.
The ignorance and arrogance of many posters here on the this blog only help prove my point that the people have no business determining any policy much less national security policy after elections are held.
March 29th, 2007 at 9:54 amHEY PHILLYFAN YOU NEED TO GO BACK TO 1ST GRADE AND LEARN HOW TO READ AND COMPREHEND WHAT YOU READ. WHAT A PITIFUL PATHETIC LITTLE NUTBAG. WOW….I FEEL LIKE A LITTLE KID IN THE SANDBOX AGAIN….LOL
March 29th, 2007 at 9:58 am[...] here and [...]
March 29th, 2007 at 4:30 pm[...] parts of Baghdad are so safe, General Petraeus rides around them in an unarmored Humvee, and that “you and I could walk through those neighborhoods [...]
March 29th, 2007 at 5:54 pm[...] the Red Zone. I.e., it is no longer an area of good security contrasting to what is around it. Senator McCain was more wrong than can easily be imagined. Not only can American officials not just stroll through Baghdad districts unarmed and unprotected [...]
March 30th, 2007 at 2:50 am[...] Durruti on March 30th, 2007 Just a couple of days after John McCain’s laughable comments on CNN about General Petraeus being able to drive around Baghdad in an unarmoured humvee, the extent [...]
March 30th, 2007 at 9:57 am[...] is working so well, “Gen. Petraeus goes out there [in Baghdad] almost every day in an unarmed humvee.” CNN’s Iraq correspondent Michael Ware said the reaction to McCain’s claim among [...]
April 1st, 2007 at 2:00 pm[...] is working so well, “Gen. Petraeus goes out there [in Baghdad] almost every day in an unarmed humvee.” CNN’s Iraq correspondent Michael Ware said the reaction to McCain’s claim among [...]
April 1st, 2007 at 11:17 pmLook. Michael Ware is not some oracle of wisdom. He is a raving lunatic, as anyone would be after spending years in Iraq, but he happened to be right this time. While I was in Spain last month I caught a few minutes of CNN International every day (FYI, the CNN correspondents don’t hold back when reporting on CNN-I – they really tone it down when appearing on shows that the US audiences see, like Anderson Cooper 360). Anyway, I saw Michael Ware a few times. His reporting is visceral and passionate. But when he appears in a live shot where there is back and forth with an anchor or as part of a panel discussion, he appears to be on the verge of losing his marbles. Again, he has lasted a lot longer that I ever would have and is not the only one over there to get all Heart of Darkness-y (a college friend of mine worked as a civilian contractor in the green zone for 18 months — he will be in therapy for years — it’s like a part of him died over there). To say nothing of the troops. I’m just wondering if this guy is reliable on a daily basis anymore.
April 2nd, 2007 at 12:32 am[...] first saw the video on ThinkProgress, where you can watch it and draw your own [...]
April 2nd, 2007 at 1:10 ampoor guy i think we screw him up in hanoi long ago.
April 2nd, 2007 at 3:18 amI see that Neil K. has received his orders from the Mighty Wurlitzer, as heralded by Drudge. This week is ’smear Michael Ware week’. Your concern is noted.
April 2nd, 2007 at 3:26 am[...] is working so well, “Gen. Petraeus goes out there [in Baghdad] almost every day in an unarmed humvee.” CNN’s Iraq correspondent Michael Ware said the reaction to McCain’s claim among [...]
April 2nd, 2007 at 4:27 amFreebird.
You are a big, dumb stupid moron. You are a lost Bushie sheep who thinks the U.S. should exist under a dictator with the people kept ignorant like you.
I agree with the individual who posted you need to go back to sixth grade political science and learn everything this country and a Democracy are all about.
Unfortunately, like Sen. John McInsane you’ve demonstrated it is already much too late for you and many of your Repukiclan ilk.
April 2nd, 2007 at 6:07 amIt’s just too bad you’ve had to first suck the entire country down into the quagmire with your brand of “leadership.”
I think we’ve finally found someone who might be almost as stupid as Bush! I didn’t think that was possible, but hey, in the GOP…… McCain should do us all a favor and take a walk down some of those Baghdad streets. Bye, bye McCain……
April 2nd, 2007 at 8:39 amIs it me, or is Sen. McCan’t not all there? I used to feel some sympathy for him being a Vietnam POW and then getting slimed by the Bush machine in 2000. But now he just gives me the creeps. I can’t believe that any soldier in Iraq supports him.
Speaking of 2000, don’t you get the feeling that he made a deal with Bush to keep his mouth shut about all their dirty tricks so he’d get their support in 2008? What poor judgement he’s shown. The guy really ought to just stay at home and take it easy.
April 2nd, 2007 at 8:49 amMichael Ware went crocodile hunter on his ass and im still laughing.I’m thankful for his reports and have been since the first day i saw him on cnn in iraq. He is a no bullshit kind of guy.He has been giving us the real picture in Iraq.
April 2nd, 2007 at 10:02 am[...] where the story was going. Reporters and soldiers in Iraq called McCain’s statement “way off base” or just laughed at him. Some asked which neighborhood exactly McCain had in [...]
April 2nd, 2007 at 10:16 amHmmm, lessee….how do I keep informed?
April 2nd, 2007 at 12:41 pmHere’s a partial list; Corriere de la Sera; Le Monde; The New York Times; The Washington Post(I know, it’s a conservative pub, but roses do grow in shit…); Hong Kong Times; The Pakistan Observer; Der Spiegel(in English-my German isn’t so good.); The Hindu; The St. Petersburg Times; The Christian Science Monitor; The People’s Daily online(communist China); The International Herald Tribune; Fox; CNN; plus assorted and sundry blogs, both liberal and conservative.
Why do I read so much? First, I can’t afford TV; second, it affords me a means to review what I just read and, using Firefox tabs, allows me to correlate or contrast with other viewpoints.
Do I recommend my path? Not particularly. It’s grueling and the rewards are dubious, at best. I am not, furthermore, inclined to Quixotically take up arms against a sea of troubles, when history appears to demonstrate a decided bias towards a generally abject stupidity. I have no children and thus could care less what state this world finds itself in tomorrow or next week.
I’m certain many will heave and wail about my attitude, but considering that humanity will likely wait until the last minute to do anything about the asteroid(s) that statistically will render all these squabblings academic, I feel privileged to preside over the last great comedy on earth.
And to think, Tom Lehrer claimed that the reason he retired from satire was because “Any world that awards Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize is a world beyond satire.”
We are like ants on a log, hauling ass down a rain-swollen river, arguing about what direction to steer the log.
Ware made up his mind from the beginning that anything that happens in Iraqi is a disaster. He is not fair and balanced and it shows daily. I’ve come to expect no more from CNN.
April 2nd, 2007 at 12:48 pmAny of the folks that would like to come to Iraq to see for yourselves may contact the Public Affairs Officer (PAO) at Marine Corps Camp Pendleton (http://www.cpp.usmc.mil/cpao/pages/contact.asp). You may request a tour of the “Green Zone” in Baghdad which will may provided by the Marine Corps Command PAO Officer for free. However, be advised the Marine Corps will NOT cover your travel expenses to or lodging in Baghdad (no accomadations are available in the Green Zone) nor will the Marine Corps be liable to any injury you may receive while on the Green Zone tour, though a flack jacket and helmet will be provided for the tour.
The MC PAO is NOT authorized at this time to conduct any tours outside the Green ZOne in Baghdad.
(name withheld)
April 2nd, 2007 at 2:16 pm[...] This interview with Gen. David Petraeus, on security throughout Iraq is a sober and realistic look at what task lies before the US military. Presidential candidate and Republican Senator John McCain recently visited Baghdad, and his version of how secure the Iraqi capital city is or is not has been the source of much debate. [...]
April 2nd, 2007 at 2:19 pm[...] While Senator John McCain, who is seeking the Republican nomination for President, talks about how safe it is in Baghdad and that President Bush’s escalation is working, the deadliest attack yet [...]
April 2nd, 2007 at 2:28 pmThis has to be the proverbial final nail in the coffin of McCains political career. Stick a fork in him, he’s done. The only thing he will have gotten out of this latest stunt will be a lousy $60 rug
What a waste of a career. For a man held in high regard by many American vets, to include myself, to pull such bone headed stunts and become a literal laughing stock is very sad.
Advice to McCain – retire and fish or something; just get out of politics because it will be a waste of your and our time.
j messer
April 2nd, 2007 at 4:17 pmOh please. Yes, the Drudge item sparked my curiosity, and after a Google search I found my way to this site. If you had bothered to read my entire post, you would have known that (1) I didn’t mention the Drudge item, and (2) I didn’t refer at all to the incident Drudge reported. My comments were based entirely on my own observations of Michael Ware in action (he is wacko) and I stand by them. As I mentioned above, Ware was right to call McCain’s comments absurd etc. because of course they were. I certainly hope we are making some progress in this “surge” but it is far too early to say that Baghdad is safe.
For what it’s worth, I won’t be voting for McCain if he gets the Republican nomination. Not because of his war stance but because he is working to stamp out free speech through his opressive and unconstitutional campaign finance “reform” legislation.
P.S. Generally speaking, is it possible for liberals and leftists to make an argument without accusing the other person of (1) “taking orders” or being a “blind follower” of some other person or entity, (2) being in the thrall of Fox News Channel, or (3) being an idiot, racist and/or homophobe? And why do so many liberals and leftists want to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine? The very name sounds like it was thought up by the Ministry of Truth. I thought liberals were all about free speech and individual rights. Guess not.
April 2nd, 2007 at 4:53 pmThe Filter That McCain Needs Should Be At The End Of Whatever He’s Smoking
McCain Should quit trying to be Budweiser’s Man In The OutHouse long enough to attend hearings and briefings that most of us are shut out of. The death and casualty count of troops and civilians, on both sides, discounts what he’s saying.
He did vote against money for the troops last week. At least he was consistent there.
April 2nd, 2007 at 6:50 pm[...] Petraeus goes out there almost every day in an unarmed humvee.” – John McCain to Wolf Blitzer on CNN’s The Situation Room, March 27, [...]
April 3rd, 2007 at 6:45 am[...] escalation in Iraq is going so well, “General Petraeus goes out there almost every day in an unarmed humvee.†On Monday, he told radio host Bill Bennett that there “are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you [...]
April 5th, 2007 at 7:40 pmI was a McCain supporter for years but his, support of Bush and Cheney blood lust, recent lying and bending over compromise to allow the administrations lust for torture makes his option of a McCain presidential style and administration even worse and more of a threat to american life, resourses, values and freedom. The republicans have no viable candidate who deserves my vote. The democrats only have one candidate which appears fresh and clean and it is not Hillary. McCains recent comments about success and security in Iraq are an insult to the intelligence of every voting american and every human being on earth, he should drop out of the presidential race and not waste any more money on his fools folly.
April 7th, 2007 at 6:33 amThe last thing this country needs to is a ‘leader’ that gets elected and then lets the people through polling results lead for him and decide any policy much less national security policy.
Freebird, would you prefer a “leader” that gets elected and uses his position for revenge, or maybe a “leader” who gets elected and uses it for financial gain? Maybe one who doesn’t listen to anyone else in the world or United Nations about security?
If we don’t question motives and keep up with what’s going on in the world; if we sit by and idly support a leader who has manipulated the public to believe the Iraq War was a necessity due to their role in 911 (a complete lie), we would end up being no better than the Nazi’s who blindly followed Hitler.
Democracy allows us to be involved. Thank goodness I live where I can state my opinion and not agree with an administration that is so far off track.
April 7th, 2007 at 11:36 am[...] Iraq. As proof of progress, McCain claimed, “General Petraeus goes out there almost every day in an unarmed humvee.” Tonight in a 60 Minutes interview, McCain acknowledged that statement was a lie. He said [...]
April 8th, 2007 at 8:14 pm[...] http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/27/ware-mccain-iraq/ [...]
April 11th, 2007 at 4:36 amMcCain can kiss his presidential bid good bye…. Im glad we still find some good honest news in the media such as CNN. How else is the public going to witness the real happenings around the world. Its a blessing when a fine reporter can cut right through the lies and misleading facts the Republican Party is so famous for. And so right up to the minute.
April 28th, 2007 at 11:55 pm