Comments on: McCain: ‘I Was The Greatest Critic’ Of The Iraq War Over The Last Four Years

By: Jon Koppenhoefer

Jon Koppenhoefer — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 07:44:20 +0000

This man rivals Giuliani in his ability to turn complete fiction into campaign rhetoric without being called on it publicly.

By: dgasdg

dgasdg — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:39:15 +0000

Hudson and all progressive cretins who share his witchhunting POV should consider this. Thompson doesn’t even come close to candidate activity or “testing the waters” activity because all he’s really done so far is: give a few interviews; tour Iowa (but no officially enter in the straw poll); and keep speculation about his involvement going. If this shabby activity graduates in one’s progressive-libtarded mind as “testing the waters,” then one also thinks that Bush blew up the WTC towers

By: War4Sale

War4Sale — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:08:54 +0000

Poor, poor persecuted McPain! He’s definitely the Senator most likely to go postal. I hope the Capitol Police are keeping him under special watch.

By: jasper

jasper — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 15:07:25 +0000

heh, heh.. put grampa back in his diaper. He’s fogetting his past.

By: rabblerowzer

rabblerowzer — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 10:55:32 +0000

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McCain hasnâ€™t heard much from campaign contributors lately, but apparently heâ€™s gotten the message to layoff the warmongering.

By: Rendition Mission

Rendition Mission — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 04:47:26 +0000

Mr. McCain obviously suffers from BillO disease – that ongoing affliction that renders one completely incapable of realizing that video and audio recording devices not only exist, but are actually used. Not to mention written transcripts, newspaper accounts, etc…

To go from a respected Veteran and POW to a complete bark-at-the-moon neo-con asshat in such a short period of time. Wow. Desperate people doing desperate things in desperate times, I suppose….

By: DallasNE

DallasNE — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 03:45:11 +0000

McCain could easily prove his point should it be the truth. All he has to do is outline the bills he has introduced in the Senate in opposition to Bush’s stay the course policy. Since he has not done that, I suspect that he is unable to do it. So much for the straight talk.

By: Probus

Probus — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 21:06:31 +0000

This is a weak attempt by McCain to rescue what’s left of his presidential campaign. His stance on immigration and the Iraq war has hurt his chances. He was never a war critic. He’s just another neo-con who can’t admit how flawed Bush’s policy in Iraq really is. No one has supported the surge more than McCain. Now that it is failing he’s shifting his position.

By: Shirley

Shirley — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 20:41:30 +0000

McCAIN IS DELUSIONAL. He actually thinks he can shift gears from 5th to Reverse at 70 and not strip his gearbox…

IS ANYBODY IN THE MSM GOING TO APPLY THE MONIKER “FLIP-FLOP” or does that term only apply to Democrats where the mainstream media are concerned?
Actually Flip-Flop seems somehow utterly inadequate in this case. What better term is there for this kind of pandering?

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 18:57:17 +0000

#88: When McCain said he was the â€œgreatest criticâ€, he exaggerated.

Yes. Indeed, it wouldn’t be going to far to say that he lied.

However, he was one of the first GOP Senators to say that Rumsfeld had to go, and itâ€™s a fact that he became increasingly critical of how the administration was prosecuting the war.

Perhaps. But this is still a pretty cowardly position. It’s easy to criticize the administration’s strategy when things aren’t going well. The fact remains that McCain was, from the beginning, an ardent war supporter. His position on Iraq has never been very far from that of George W. Bush.

By: the fly-man

the fly-man — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 18:52:27 +0000

I personally don’t care who the GOP nominee, all I’m saying is I’ve been raised on the GOP for 40 years and I honestly think just go back and look at who has received the nominee, loyal party members, Ronald Reagan is dead and if there was a another version of him we’d have seen them by now. The party will go with the loyal, and then do what it does best, unifying behind their Dear Leader to be, and destroying the competition. Can you imagine even a 1% chance that Hillary becomes President? I can hear that one already.

By: ForTruth

ForTruth — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 18:50:45 +0000

This guy is my Senator, and f*cking insane.

By: Charles Frith

Charles Frith — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 18:41:43 +0000

The overwhelming lust for power drives this former prisoner of war to lengths that I find creepy and genuinely nauseous.

By: Charles Bird

Charles Bird — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 18:28:26 +0000

When McCain said he was the “greatest critic”, he exaggerated. However, he was one of the first GOP Senators to say that Rumsfeld had to go, and it’s a fact that he became increasingly critical of how the administration was prosecuting the war.

By: dorfenburg

dorfenburg — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 17:35:22 +0000

I may or may not post before I fly out this evening for vacation.
Comment by Wayne â€” August 18, 2007 @ 11:28 am

Oh great! We will all wait with abated breath.

By: Gregor Samsa

Gregor Samsa — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 17:23:06 +0000

McCain: Another day, another lie.

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 17:19:12 +0000

I’m not sure who the “greatest” war critic has been (Gore? Kucinich? Dean? Obama?), but I can assure you, Senator McCain, that you’re not it.

By: Zooey

Zooey — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 16:52:30 +0000

I may or may not post before I fly out this evening for vacation.
Comment by Wayne â€” August 18, 2007 @ 11:28 am

Oh c’mon Wayne, don’t make us wait for the news…. ;)

By: UpFromTheSkies

UpFromTheSkies — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 16:50:13 +0000

Wow, John McCain to the left of Dennis Kucinich as the number one war critic in America. Who’d have thunk it? Thank you Kiran Chetry for helping us to see that John had his fingers crossed behind his back when he was saying all those pro-war things, that he didn’t really mean them, and that he was unfairly painted as being a huge supporter of the presidentâ€™s Iraq strategy. Great journalistic integrity there, CNN.

By: bobwurst

bobwurst — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 16:40:26 +0000

“McCain fought, spilled blood, and survived in a POW camp, for America. He does not â€œhateâ€ America.

fly-man”

What goes around comes around naziboy.