McCain (Mis)Speaks

[RedEarth]

McCain (Mis)Speaks
How the Senator Won the War of Words in Iraq (again and again and again…)

by Christopher Cerf and Victor S. Navasky
The Iraq war was a disaster for Iraq, a disaster for the United States, a disaster for the Middle East, a disaster for the world community, but most of all, it was a disaster for the experts.

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.... here, for the record, is what we found to be Senator McCain’s typical responses to some of the key questions ...about the Iraq war.....

How would American troops be greeted?: “I believe… that the Iraqi people will greet us as liberators.” (March 20, 2003)

Did Saddam Hussein have a nuclear program that posed an imminent threat to the United States?: “Saddam Hussein is on a crash course to construct a nuclear weapon.” (October 10, 2002)
Will a war with Iraq be long or short?: “This conflict is… going to be relatively short.” (March 23, 2003)

How is the war going?: “I would argue that the next three to six months will be critical.” (September 10, 2003)

How is it going (almost two months later, from the war’s “greatest critic”)? “I think the initial phases of were so spectacularly successful that it took us all by surprise.” (October 31, 2003)

Is this war really necessary?: “Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war.” (August 30, 2004)

How is it going? (Recurring question for the war’s “greatest critic”): “We will probably see significant progress in the next six months to a year.” (December 4, 2005)

Will the President’s “surge” of troops into Baghdad and surrounding areas that the senator had been calling for finally make the difference?: “We can know fairly well in a few months.” (February 4, 2007)

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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/29/9288/

[Doctor_J]

1. He's an even worse public speaker than Smirk

I didn't think that was possible.