McCain: 16 Mos. Is A "Pretty Good Timetable"
BLITZER: What If Maliki persists, you're president, and he says he wants U.S. Troops out and he wants them out, let's say in a year or two years or 16 months or whatever, what do you do? Do you listen to the prime minister?
MCCAIN: He won't. He won't.
BLITZER: How do you know?
MCCAIN: Because I know him. And I know him very well. And i know the other leaders. And I know -- I've been there eight times, as you know. I know them very, very well.
BLITZER: So why do you think he said that -- 16 months is basically a pretty good timetable?
MCCAIN: He said it's a pretty good timetable based on conditions on the ground. I think it's a pretty good timetable, as we should -- or horizons for withdrawal. But they have to be based on conditions on the ground.
Excuse me but what a FRIGGING FOOL.
"""I think it's a pretty good timetable"""
Okay, Senator John McCain. Then your whole campaign is a lie. You have no judgment and this negates ALL of your attacks on Senator Obama on the Iraq issue.
This utter BS campaign by McCain truly BELITTLES the intelligence of Americans. And it belittles the electoral process having someone so disingenuous leading a major ticket.
It's absolutely embarrassing.
Time for this stupidity to END. We've had 8 YEARS of this insanity. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. Elect Barack.
Good lord. It used to be that timetables were evil, traitorous and empowered the enemy. Now the same timetable offered by Barack Obama -- who McCain says would like to lose the war so he can win the White House -- is good for McCain.
Straight talk, my tukus.
OK, let's see if the press is going to do its job. McMoron's incessant lying and distortion about Obama's commitment to this country and our troops should be confronted. Does he really think Obama would choose failure over success in foreign policy? Does he really believe that Obama would rather loose a war than a political campaign? If so, he is dumber than he is acting. It is time he is confronted with his outrageous and infantile behavior. Let's see if the media has been castrated.
PS: While he is slinging that BS he is also saying the 16 months is a "pretty good" time frame for withdrawal. Too much like Bush and we know where it is coming from...Rove's man is now in charge of McSame's campaign. Shame on you John.
McCain will never nd this war. It is just the same war criminal as Bush.
NYT Elisabeth Bumiller:
"""Essentially, as the administration has taken a more pragmatic approach to foreign policy, the decision of Mr. McCain to adhere to his more hawkish positions illustrates the continuing influence of neoconservatives on his thinking even as they are losing clout within the administration."""
Yes. The "CONTINUING INFLUENCE OF NEOCONSERVATIVES" on John McCain.
Neocons. The ones who said to go into Iraq before 9/11. The ones who said to go into Iraq immediately after 9/11. The ones who have basically ruined this country's economy by starting a MULTI-TRILLION DOLLAR WAR of their own choosing that was based on false and fraudulent information.
A vote for McCain is a vote for ANOTHER Neoconservative Puppet President, a vote for ANOTHER President who refuses to distinguish between what is right and wrong for the good of our country.
More from the NYT article:
"""In a speech in Ohio in May, he declared that most American troops would be home by 2013. On Monday, in remarks at the side of the first President George Bush in Kennebunkport, Me., Mr. McCain embraced, if only in passing, the possibility of withdrawing most American troops by the end of 2010.
On Friday on CNN, under questioning by Wolf Blitzer, he called Mr. Obama’s 16-month proposal “a pretty good timetable.” But the McCain campaign declined to elaborate Friday night on whether this represented a change in his views."""
Isn't foreign policy supposed to be his STRONG POINT? Telling 3 different people 3 different things is NOT the mark of a strong leader. Just boggles the mind that anyone would support this kind of inept and corrupted person as a "leader".
I have a question for all of you McCain supporters:
Do you support a 16-month conditions-based phased withdrawl from Iraq?
"OK, let's see if the press is going to do its job."
Oh, the press is definitely doing its job ... of protecting the perceived interests of its corporate owners, which means they must support McCain by obscuring his incompetence and dozens upon dozens of flip-flops, and by trumpeting the Republicans' phony narratives of Obama being "elitist" and "presumptuous", with nary a mention of McCain's 9 homes or a challenge to the notion that because he was shot down and tortured, he knows how to win wars.
If the press were doing a job for *us*, every American would know that John McCain has a nasty temper, has been one of the ten most conservative Senators throughout his career, and that his until recently top economic advisor, Phil "a nation of whiners" Gramm, was a major contributor to the subprime and Enron disasters. Every American would know, without a doubt, that voting for John McCain would be a terrible, terrible mistake, for the nation, for the planet, and for them personally.
Lobbyists:
"So far, Mr. McCain, who has locked up the Republican presidential nomination, has received more than $181,600 from lobbyists and trade groups, while Mr. Obama has received just over $6,000."
Your choice, people.
John McCain and all the same corporate lobbyists who have run Bush's Administration.
OR.
Barack Obama whose campaign is fueled by donations of regular Main Street Americans.
Your choice.