McCain falsely claims Mosul is ‘quiet.’
Today at a townhall meeting in Wisconsin, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) tried to claim that President Bush’s policies in Iraq are “succeeding,” by pointing to the “quiet” in Mosul and other cities:
So I can tell you that it is succeeding. I can look you in the eye and tell you it’s succeeding. We have drawn down to pre-surge levels. Basra, Mosul and now Sadr city are quiet and it’s long and it’s hard and it’s tough and there will be setbacks.
Watch it:
Mosul, however, is not quiet. In fact, today AP reported, “Another suicide bomber driving a police vehicle struck Iraqi commandos earlier Thursday in Mosul, killing three of them and wounding nine other people, according to battalion commander Capt. Aziz Latif.”
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of course it sounds quiet to mccain - hearing loss is common among senior citizens
May 29th, 2008 at 9:15 pmHonestly, this man is trying to not become president. He shows his cluelessness in almost every speech he gives.
And people are actually supporting this.
Amazing.
May 29th, 2008 at 9:15 pmI’m sure that McCain doesn’t count bombings that only kill Iraqis.
May 29th, 2008 at 9:16 pmI can only hope that some day Senator McCain realizes that the decision to invade Iraq and depose its dictator was neither legally right, nor morally right. To continue to act in the belief that it was both and, therefore, to insist that we must “see it through to the end” is sadly delusional. You can’t make a wrong like this one right by insisting on doing more of the same. Withdraw, re-group, re-assess. Maybe there’s a better way to achieve whatever nebulous goal it is you have in mind. You do have a goal in mind, don’t you, Senator? A real one, meaning a reality-based one? Let’s hear it.
May 29th, 2008 at 9:18 pmGrampy had his hearing aids turned down…
May 29th, 2008 at 9:24 pmMcCain’s having an “Admiral Stockdale” moment?
May 29th, 2008 at 9:25 pm“Maverick Without a Clue”
May 29th, 2008 at 9:46 pmAh, the tranquil Indiana marketplace-like people of Mosul.
May 29th, 2008 at 10:07 pmCertainly the cities are quiet.
May 29th, 2008 at 10:08 pmBombed out markets, demolished infrastructure, intermittent electricity, dangerous to travel in automobiles, no sanitation, millions have fled to other countries….
I hope you’ll excuse me if I don’t applaud the peace in Sadr City yet.
3 seconds on CNN looking for Sadr City and I find from the distant date of May 21, 2008:
http://www.time.com/ time/ world/ article/ 0,8599,1808236,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics
Residents of the impoverished and enormous Shi’ite warren in east Baghdad have been under siege since April, when Iraqi security forces backed by American troops began clashing in the area with fighters from the Mahdi Army militia led by cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. For weeks gun battles and air strikes came almost every day in Sadr City as soldiers and militiamen faced off in a stalemated battle at the edge of the district, which is the Mahdi Army’s stronghold. A hastily arranged truce between Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and Sadr halted the fighting last week. Under the agreement, Iraqi forces are now allowed to enter Sadr City to pursue any so-called rogue militia cells not following the cease-fire and to conduct searches for heavy weapons like the mortars and rockets routinely flung from Sadr City toward the Green Zone.
May 29th, 2008 at 10:12 pmLet’s send him back there for some Mosul carpet shopping without the aircraft and other escorts this time.
May 29th, 2008 at 10:16 pmgrand ole pappy McSame says Sadr city is quiet after we’ve destroyed the place
May 29th, 2008 at 10:23 pmHey! Compared to downtown Philly…
May 29th, 2008 at 10:28 pm…Basra, Mosul and now Sadr city are quiet…
The only thing that’s quiet is the inside of McCain’s empty head.
http://progressiveworldreview.com
May 29th, 2008 at 10:41 pmtrust me, i don’t carry a brief for mccain, but respectfully suggest that think progress writers try not to fall into the very trap of context-free blogging that your counterparts in traditional news journalism do… “quiet” is relative as you can see by looking at my day yesterday in kabul, a day in which a suicide bomber also perpetrated an attack…
May 29th, 2008 at 10:53 pmJust Another Day in Kabul, Afghanistan
McCain is a “Maverick in His Own Mind”. And nowhere else.
May 29th, 2008 at 10:56 pmYeah but there’s lots of pretty mountains in Mosul.
May 29th, 2008 at 11:05 pmOther than being clueless on the conditions, Grumpy also went on to claim: “I can look you in the eye and tell you it’s succeeding. We have drawn down to pre-surge levels.” !!!!!YIKES!!!!
hummmmm . . . seems McSame has maybe lost track of the counting PROCESS . . . . 140,000 NOW, pre “Surge” was 130,000 - but who counts facts? No sense in changing the game plan now . . . .
May 29th, 2008 at 11:07 pmThis guy McShame just spews bull shit from his mouth. Plane and simple.
May 29th, 2008 at 11:21 pmsure all of Iraq is quiet since the GOP US corporate media stopped reporting on what was happening. If a tree falls in the forest and no hears it…according to mccain it proves that it didn’t actually fall.
May 29th, 2008 at 11:29 pmAh, the perfect quiet of the cemetery, the Bush cemeteries scattered across Afghanistan and Iraq, and even a couple in western Pakistan. Heck of a war criminal, Mr. Bush.
I have read that as one ages, one first loses hearing in the highest ranges of tones, as the high-pitched squeaks of the Hummingbirds. Since McCain seems to be almost totally deaf to any kind of real sound or thought, I guess that he is well on his way to total obliviousness. Actually, that’s been the Way of the GOP for the last eight years…
May 29th, 2008 at 11:49 pmArtZ Says:
May 30th, 2008 at 12:01 am————————————————————-
Hey! Compared to downtown Philly…
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What’s the problem? Is it time to burn down MOVE members again?
Leave the old codger alone, the press reported only part of his quote. What grampy McLame really said was, “Basra, Mosul and now Sadr city are quiet :::under his breath:::: when viewed from my mansion in Arizona”.
May 30th, 2008 at 5:45 amLMAO, I honestly can’t believe ANYONE would take McCain seriously. Half the time McCain just doesn’t have a single clue. Such a joke. He should change his title from Senator to Dictator Brown Nose. LOL.
JJ
May 30th, 2008 at 8:15 amOnline Privacy when it Counts
I saw a clip of him spouting his crap last night…He looks like he’s dying. His face looks like that of a burn victim. What the hell will he look like after 4 or 8 years of bringing us more war?
May 30th, 2008 at 8:48 amBasra, Mosul and now Sadr city are quiet…
John, if you can’t hear the bombs, turn up your hearing aid.
May 30th, 2008 at 8:53 amIt’s hard to imagine McCain surviving the campaign, much less even a single term in office.
May 30th, 2008 at 9:17 amMcCain is not in good health, if you read between the lines of his doctors reports, they say he is in “adequate health”.
May 30th, 2008 at 9:19 amThat’s similar to saying G W Bush’s mental capacities are “adequate”.
I’m usually first in line to rip McCain, but on this one, he’s right.
May 30th, 2008 at 10:28 amIt IS quiet.
After all the bombings, people are huddling inside and keeping their voices down.
He said “quiet”, not “safe.”
Let’s judge him on what he actually says for a change.
Iraq nowadays does not fall under any of world standards in anything and that includes daily death and murders.
May 30th, 2008 at 10:51 amSo if 30 people killed in an Iraqi city in one day,few homes and cars blown out, that’s considered ‘quiet’ day in Iraq according to McCain.
If everything so quiet,then why we keep sending more troops to Iraq?
That’s good enough for him to claim ‘The Surge is working’.
And if McCain wins the Presidency, he will sell us another ‘quiet’ war with Iran.