It's really a joker, but the MSM is going to make it an Ace!
Ante up, Amurkn!
Pffffffffftttttttt!!!!
"Seeing Progress in Iraq, McCain Hopes for Credit" by MARC SANTORA
CONCORD, N.H., Nov. 9 — Now that President Bush’s decision early this year to send more troops to Iraq is showing signs of reducing the violence in Baghdad, Senator John McCain, who had long called for beefing up the American military presence there, is betting that the politics of the war are changing as well.
Yeah, we are all going to now get behind this lying frikkin' war, and we are all TIRED OF IT!!!!!!
Pffffffftttttt!
Mr. McCain, Republican of Arizona, is making his early advocacy of the troop increase and his push for a change in strategy a central theme of his presidential campaign. He is using it to distance himself from the Bush administration, whose handling of the war he regularly denounces, and from his Republican rivals, none of whom, he says, displayed the leadership, courage or knowledge necessary to win in Iraq.
McCain, referring to the course originally set by President Bush, told voters in Iowa this week:
“I was the only one, the only candidate for president of the United States on either side who fought to change course by providing more troops. I did everything in my power to try and change that strategy. I was severely criticized by other Republicans for being disloyal. I said we had to have the strategy we are using now.”
Pft! What a BULLSHIT LIAR!!!
He was all chummy with Georgie, saying it's working!
Remember the marketplace with the swat battalion?
Mr. McCain is asking voters where his main Republican rivals — Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mitt Romney and Fred D. Thompson — were as the situation in Iraq deteriorated, pointing to their silence as evidence of lack of experience.
Where is Ron Paul in this discussion, dinks?
McCain, in an interview in Cedar Rapids, Iowa where he did not questioning his opponents’ patriotism:
“If they want to be president of the United States, they should have informed themselves. Giuliani could have informed himself by remaining on the Iraq Study Group. Some people tell me that he was fired. Some people tell me that he withdrew. Whatever it is, he didn’t show much interest in a war where young Americans are fighting and dying.”
Ouch! And those that do and want out, Johnny? What about us?
More than any Republican candidate, Mr. McCain has been an outspoken supporter of the war. While that appeared for much of the year to be a problem for him as the public grew increasingly disenchanted with the lack of progress in stabilizing Iraq, he is casting the glimmers of improvement there as a vindication and a selling point as he tries to get his campaign back on track.
Expect to hear a lot about McCain's miraculous rise in the next few weeks!
A poll by CBS News last month found that 33 percent of Americans believed the troop increase was making the situation better in Iraq, with 41 percent saying it had made no difference and 13 percent saying it had made things worse.
Yeah, an MSM poll? Pffffffffffffttttttttt!!!!!!!
Mr. McCain said that he did not know if Americans would be receptive to his view on the war, and that his unstinting support for the invasion might have cost him the support of many of the independent voters who helped propel his campaign in 2000.
But he said that just as he had taken blame for the failures of the war, he would ask voters to recognize where he deserves credit.... In November 2004, Mr. McCain delivered a detailed speech to the Council on Foreign Relations in which he blasted the administration and critics of the war:
“Simply put, there does not appear to be a strategy behind our current force levels in Iraq other than to preserve the illusion that we have sufficient forces in place to meet our objectives."
But he campaigned for Mr. Bush in 2004, and even as Mr. McCain pushed for changes, he also often talked about progress.
Yeah, I know, I remember! Been hearing the same shit for four fucking years!!!!
A search of archived news articles and transcripts from 2003 through fall 2006 turned up no reports of Giuliani calling for a change of course in military strategy in Iraq. Nor could his campaign point to any public statements on the issue. When he introduced his “12 Commitments” this summer, which he said represented America’s most important challenges, there was no mention of Iraq.
Yeah, Rudy is starting to have the problems.
Rabid Robertson endorsed him, Bernie betrayed him, and the now this?
Mr. Giuliani rarely speaks in detail of mistakes made in the war. In fact, he has said repeatedly that “we focus too much on Iraq,” obscuring the broader “terrorists’ war against us.”
Yeah, call him Widen-the -War Rudy!!!!
Hey, Rudy...
Who Told Giuliani the WTC was Going to Collapse on 9/11?
We Need Answers Rudy Giuliani
Giuliani the Hawk
The Giuliani Story
How about that last one, huh?
