by Basheert @ 8:54 AM MDT
Via Crooks and Liars:
It appears that the Iraqi shopkeepers have a slightly different take on McCain and Graham's "happy Iraqi shopping trip" than the Senators do....once again, the idiots rise to the Peter Principle.
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Showing posts with label John McCain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John McCain. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Monday, April 02, 2007
I think the American people are not getting the full picture of what's happening here.
By Geezer Power @ 9:19 PM PDT
McCain's Baghdad tour
SEN. MCCAIN: General Petraeus goes -- General Petraeus goes to -- goes downtown almost every day, and of course he has protection, and we had protection today.
Things are getting better in Iraq, and I am pleased with the progress that has been made. And I will continue to be pleased at the progress. I hope that the significant drop in murders -- I'll be glad to go through that list and others with you, if you would like. But I am very glad that we have made the progress that we have made, and there's a lot more to go, and it's long and it's hard and it's difficult. I think the American people are not getting the full picture of what's happening here.
SEN. GRAHAM: Can I just add to that?
You know, this is my sixth trip, and along the way, I've gone from the first time, where we went over to the hotel across the street and bought rugs -- there were two cars with us. And in between then and now, we were in tanks and couldn't move around and felt under siege.
SEN. MCCAIN:I just -- I was -- I candidly was not prepared for -- to find a marketplace where thousands and thousands of Iraqis were moving about in regular, everyday life, like a normal outdoor market in Indiana in the summertime, doing so in safety because of the efforts of U.S. and Iraqi personnel in adding barriers and hardening those areas so they wouldn't be susceptible to terrorists.
And I also wasn't prepared for the generous and warm and welcoming spirit that we encountered.
McCain's Baghdad tour
SEN. MCCAIN: General Petraeus goes -- General Petraeus goes to -- goes downtown almost every day, and of course he has protection, and we had protection today.
Things are getting better in Iraq, and I am pleased with the progress that has been made. And I will continue to be pleased at the progress. I hope that the significant drop in murders -- I'll be glad to go through that list and others with you, if you would like. But I am very glad that we have made the progress that we have made, and there's a lot more to go, and it's long and it's hard and it's difficult. I think the American people are not getting the full picture of what's happening here.
SEN. GRAHAM: Can I just add to that?
You know, this is my sixth trip, and along the way, I've gone from the first time, where we went over to the hotel across the street and bought rugs -- there were two cars with us. And in between then and now, we were in tanks and couldn't move around and felt under siege.
SEN. MCCAIN:I just -- I was -- I candidly was not prepared for -- to find a marketplace where thousands and thousands of Iraqis were moving about in regular, everyday life, like a normal outdoor market in Indiana in the summertime, doing so in safety because of the efforts of U.S. and Iraqi personnel in adding barriers and hardening those areas so they wouldn't be susceptible to terrorists.
And I also wasn't prepared for the generous and warm and welcoming spirit that we encountered.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Have Lots of Fun Everyone ... Give McCain a Call NOW!
by Basheert @9:51 AM MDT
(Allow me to insert in here the fact that Mr. McCain HATES, DETESTS and ABHORS ALL BLOGS - Ideally he would shut them all down. With that in mind, read on and enjoy!)
Courtesy of Americablog:
Demand that John McCain name that "safe" neighborhood in Baghdad
by John Aravosis (DC) · 3/28/2007 10:55:00 AM ET
UPDATE: Now McCain is denying he ever said any of this, even though he said it on camera only yesterday AND in his denial today he repeats the claim that there are several "safe neighborhoods" in Baghdad, though he qualifies his statement by saying that they are very dangerous safe neighborhoods (I'm not kidding). So name those very dangerous safe neighborhoods. Not to mention, it's not very straight-talking to deny something you said on camera 24 hours earlier, and something you repeated on Bill Bennett's radio show. This is a man who wants to be president, and he is basing his justification for the Iraq war on a lie. Sound familiar?
(NOTE TO MEDIA: When presidential candidate John Kerry made a similar unsubstantiated claim - that several world leaders opposed Bush's re-election - you dogged Kerry relentlessly to name those leaders. Well fair is fair. If you're not all a bunch of conservative suck-ups, then do your job and demand the same answer from John McCain. Name those neighborhoods.)
GOP Senator John McCain, who is running for president, said yesterday that it's an absolute lie to suggest that Baghdad is unsafe. In fact, McCain says that there are several neighborhoods - more than one - in Baghdad (outside of the Green Zone, of course), that are totally safe for an American to travel alone with no security. Here's what McCain said:
“There are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk through those neighborhoods, today."
CNN's Baghdad correspondent, Michael Ware, who is actually IN BAGHDAD, says that McCain is flat-out wrong:
"Honestly, Wolf, you'll barely last twenty minutes out there. I dont know what part of 'Neverland' Senator McCain is talking about when he says we can go strolling in Baghdad."
But John McCain was quite emphatic about it. There are "some neighborhoods" in Baghdad that you can travel around by yourself with no security and be perfectly safe. The only reason you don't know this, McCain told CNN yesterday, is because the media is lying to you.
Wow. Hell of a charge. McCain must know something that we don't. If McCain is right, if the media is lying to me, I want to know what the media is hiding. Won't you join me in asking Senator McCain to reveal to us the names of these non-Green-Zone Baghdad neighborhoods that are so darn safe that an American can travel alone with no security whatsoever.
Call John McCain now, and ask him to name that neighborhood.
(202) 224-2235
(Allow me to insert in here the fact that Mr. McCain HATES, DETESTS and ABHORS ALL BLOGS - Ideally he would shut them all down. With that in mind, read on and enjoy!)
Courtesy of Americablog:
Demand that John McCain name that "safe" neighborhood in Baghdad
by John Aravosis (DC) · 3/28/2007 10:55:00 AM ET
UPDATE: Now McCain is denying he ever said any of this, even though he said it on camera only yesterday AND in his denial today he repeats the claim that there are several "safe neighborhoods" in Baghdad, though he qualifies his statement by saying that they are very dangerous safe neighborhoods (I'm not kidding). So name those very dangerous safe neighborhoods. Not to mention, it's not very straight-talking to deny something you said on camera 24 hours earlier, and something you repeated on Bill Bennett's radio show. This is a man who wants to be president, and he is basing his justification for the Iraq war on a lie. Sound familiar?
(NOTE TO MEDIA: When presidential candidate John Kerry made a similar unsubstantiated claim - that several world leaders opposed Bush's re-election - you dogged Kerry relentlessly to name those leaders. Well fair is fair. If you're not all a bunch of conservative suck-ups, then do your job and demand the same answer from John McCain. Name those neighborhoods.)
GOP Senator John McCain, who is running for president, said yesterday that it's an absolute lie to suggest that Baghdad is unsafe. In fact, McCain says that there are several neighborhoods - more than one - in Baghdad (outside of the Green Zone, of course), that are totally safe for an American to travel alone with no security. Here's what McCain said:
“There are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk through those neighborhoods, today."
CNN's Baghdad correspondent, Michael Ware, who is actually IN BAGHDAD, says that McCain is flat-out wrong:
"Honestly, Wolf, you'll barely last twenty minutes out there. I dont know what part of 'Neverland' Senator McCain is talking about when he says we can go strolling in Baghdad."
But John McCain was quite emphatic about it. There are "some neighborhoods" in Baghdad that you can travel around by yourself with no security and be perfectly safe. The only reason you don't know this, McCain told CNN yesterday, is because the media is lying to you.
Wow. Hell of a charge. McCain must know something that we don't. If McCain is right, if the media is lying to me, I want to know what the media is hiding. Won't you join me in asking Senator McCain to reveal to us the names of these non-Green-Zone Baghdad neighborhoods that are so darn safe that an American can travel alone with no security whatsoever.
Call John McCain now, and ask him to name that neighborhood.
(202) 224-2235
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
John McCain's Straight Talk in Neverland
by Basheert @4:08 PM MDT
Michael Ware is a very well respected, extremely knowledgable reporter who has been in Iraq for the entire U.S. occupation. His reports on CNN are fascinating and well detailed. He knows what he is talking about, and conveys his skepticism on the current "surge" and "war path" we are on in very strong reporting. He appropriately nails John McCain for his usual lying comments. Good on ya Michael!!!
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Michael Ware is a very well respected, extremely knowledgable reporter who has been in Iraq for the entire U.S. occupation. His reports on CNN are fascinating and well detailed. He knows what he is talking about, and conveys his skepticism on the current "surge" and "war path" we are on in very strong reporting. He appropriately nails John McCain for his usual lying comments. Good on ya Michael!!!
HERE
Friday, March 16, 2007
The Skeletons in John McCain's Closet
by Basheert @ 4:53 PM MDTAnyone who believes John McCain is a straight talking maverick, had better do a review of his past lives before his conversion.
This man is anything but honest.
The Skeletons of McCain
McCain Squeals "Tar Baby"!!!!
by Basheert @ 3:52 PM MDTThose of us with the misfortune to have John "Flip Flop" McCain as a Senator are used to this idiot opening his mouth and spewing forth dreck and immediately realizing he sounds like the idiot he is.
Today Mr. McCain used the "tar baby" reference and then immediately realized he'd stepped into a rat hole and tried to squeal his way out.
This is pro forma, SOSDD for John McCain. A man who stakes his life and reputation on being tortured in Vietnam. A man who believes torture qualifies him for not only the Senate but the White House.
All Americans should be very very afraid if Mr. McCain is elected. We will ALL be in a war zone...because that is Mr. McCain's world. War, more War, bigger War, lots of War, War 24 hours a day, War with all our children, War against the Left, War Against the Right....
I won't even go into his adulterous personal life and his wife's stealing painkiller prescriptions.
This man is sick!
READ IT HERE
Friday, March 09, 2007
Anti-McCain vets ready salvo against Senator's presidential campaign
Two familiar faces will soon be dogging Senator John McCain on the campaign trail, as activist Vietnam Veterans Jerry Kiley and Ted Sampley resume a campaign they have conducted for years against the Arizona Republican and former prisoner of war.
Jerry Kiley filed papers last week to establish the nonpartisan group Vietnam Veterans Against John McCain. "When people truly get to know him, there's no possibility they'll consider him for president of the United States," says Kiley, who served in the Army and completed the Internal Revenue Service paperwork to establish the "527" group.
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Saturday, February 24, 2007
McCain Says Iraq Could End His Career
SEATTLE — Republican presidential hopeful John McCain said Friday that British Prime Minister Tony Blair has sacrificed his career to support the Iraq war, and the Arizona senator acknowledged that he could face the same fate.
McCain, a staunch defender of President Bush's new Iraq troop deployment strategy, said he worries that a cutback of British troops in southern Iraq announced by Blair this week could lead to stronger control by "Iranian-backed Shiite" forces. But he said Blair and the British deserve gratitude for their efforts.
"He has literally sacrificed his political career because of Iraq," McCain said during an appearance before the World Affairs Council and the City Club of Seattle. "That is a great testament to his political courage."
Asked later by a reporter if he was in danger of making the same sacrifice, McCain responded, "Sure."
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Thursday, February 22, 2007
McCain: Bush Pursuit of Iraq a 'Train Wreck'
McCain Slams Bush Administration on Iraq and Global Warming, Criticizes Both Cheney and Rumsfeld
Feb. 22, 2007 — Proving that presidential infighting isn't just for Democrats, Republican front-runner Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., took several sharply worded shots at the Bush administration this week, distancing himself from an unpopular president and an unpopular war while wooing the right Republicans who put the president in power and once before denied McCain the White House.
McCain's latest anti-Bush tirade came during a joint appearance Wednesday in California with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican.
The two leaders met to discuss energy and the environment, but the subject turned to Iraq.
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Feb. 22, 2007 — Proving that presidential infighting isn't just for Democrats, Republican front-runner Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., took several sharply worded shots at the Bush administration this week, distancing himself from an unpopular president and an unpopular war while wooing the right Republicans who put the president in power and once before denied McCain the White House.
McCain's latest anti-Bush tirade came during a joint appearance Wednesday in California with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican.
The two leaders met to discuss energy and the environment, but the subject turned to Iraq.
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Monday, February 19, 2007
McCain: Rumsfeld was one of the worst
BLUFFTON, S.C. - Republican presidential candidate John McCain (news, bio, voting record) said Monday the war in Iraq has been mismanaged for years and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will be remembered as one of the worst in history.
"We are paying a very heavy price for the mismanagement —that's the kindest word I can give you — of Donald Rumsfeld, of this war," the Arizona senator told an overflow crowd of more than 800 at a retirement community near Hilton Head Island, S.C. "The price is very, very heavy and I regret it enormously."
McCain, the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, complained that Rumsfeld never put enough troops on the ground to succeed in Iraq.
"I think that Donald Rumsfeld will go down in history as one of the worst secretaries of defense in history," McCain said to applause.
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"We are paying a very heavy price for the mismanagement —that's the kindest word I can give you — of Donald Rumsfeld, of this war," the Arizona senator told an overflow crowd of more than 800 at a retirement community near Hilton Head Island, S.C. "The price is very, very heavy and I regret it enormously."
McCain, the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, complained that Rumsfeld never put enough troops on the ground to succeed in Iraq.
"I think that Donald Rumsfeld will go down in history as one of the worst secretaries of defense in history," McCain said to applause.
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Sunday, February 11, 2007
McCain criticizes Europe on Afghanistan
MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) - Senator John McCain, a Republican contender for the White House in 2008, chastised Europe on Saturday for failing to supply the troops and money to win in Afghanistan and said NATO's future was at stake.
In tough comments that singled out specific countries, McCain told NATO allies to move beyond the "false debate" over security and development priorities in Afghanistan -- a dispute that dominated a defense ministers' meeting earlier this week.
Instead, Europe should follow Washington's lead and put more forces and resources into the war effort.
"Military recommitment must begin with NATO countries providing an adequate number of troops for the fight," McCain told the Munich Security Conference of senior world politicians, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
"... Yet the international community still falls far short in meeting its prior pledges and in committing the resources Afghanistan needs to avoid failure," he said in prepared remarks.
The senator's comments were more pointed in their criticism of Europe than other public statements from President George W. Bush's administration.
But they reflected growing frustration among some U.S. officials and others in Washington over what is seen as Europe's unwillingness to pay its fair share for involvement in Afghanistan.
Germany and Italy were singled out in McCain's speech. He said Germany must significantly increase police trainers in Afghanistan and Italy, responsible for judicial reform in the country, should raise more funds internationally for reform efforts he said were needed to curb government corruption.
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In tough comments that singled out specific countries, McCain told NATO allies to move beyond the "false debate" over security and development priorities in Afghanistan -- a dispute that dominated a defense ministers' meeting earlier this week.
Instead, Europe should follow Washington's lead and put more forces and resources into the war effort.
"Military recommitment must begin with NATO countries providing an adequate number of troops for the fight," McCain told the Munich Security Conference of senior world politicians, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
"... Yet the international community still falls far short in meeting its prior pledges and in committing the resources Afghanistan needs to avoid failure," he said in prepared remarks.
The senator's comments were more pointed in their criticism of Europe than other public statements from President George W. Bush's administration.
But they reflected growing frustration among some U.S. officials and others in Washington over what is seen as Europe's unwillingness to pay its fair share for involvement in Afghanistan.
Germany and Italy were singled out in McCain's speech. He said Germany must significantly increase police trainers in Afghanistan and Italy, responsible for judicial reform in the country, should raise more funds internationally for reform efforts he said were needed to curb government corruption.
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