(10:00AM EST – promoted by Nightprowlkitty)
Not since the first utterance of Mission Accomplished has a politician proved himself to be so breathtakingly out of touch with reality.
This is John McCain on “This Week” with George Stephanopolous:
Steph: But there was a fundamental difference regarding the original reason to go to war [in Iraq]. He [Obama] said it would inflame the Muslim world and become a recruitment tool for Al Quaeda. You said and you wrote that it would lessen antipathy in the Muslim world and that we would be greeted as liberators. Wasn’t Senator Obama right about that?
McCain: I don’t believe so. We were greeted as liberators.
Link to the vid here: http://abcnews.go.com/video/pl…
McCain goes on to say the the execution of the war in Iraq was the problem, but not the decision to go.
So…
One wonders out loud how a McCain administration would differ from a Bush administration in terms of foreign policy (with the very recent exception of the last few weeks, when even George Bush has decided he can’t just bomb every country into an enthusiastic support of his agenda). Would McCain “bomb, bomb, bomb…bomb, bomb Iran” as he has intimated (and put to a snazzy jingle)?
How about our building conflict with Russia – will he send US special forces in to foment a revolution? Will US troops be occupying the Kremlin, and if so, does this mean Bremer will come out of retirement as Transition Czar?
How many more Iraqs would John McCain get us involved with during his hypothetical administration, and when would we finally nation-build our way out of economic existance?
This is one of the most irresponsible, naive, dangerous and frankly tone-deaf statements of the general election to date, and proves why we can’t have John McCain in charge of the most powerful nation in the world at this precarious time. It would make excellent macabre satire along the lines of Dr. Strangelove, if the implications of this mindset weren’t so frightening.
McCain should explain himself, and quickly.
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but I heard this and just got mad.
Hope this gaffe actually gets some coverage – it’s very illustrative, I think, if McCain’s views on foreign policy, which are basically as neocon as Bush’s.
but if McCain and the ‘Straight-talk” Express says it is true…. do I hafta believe ?
I’m waiting for us to catch the Anthrax murderer here in the US….maybe McCain knows something about him too!
of that “famous” toppling of Saddam’s statue do in fact lend credence to a controlled and manufactured photo op. The “crowds” were certainly not as large as the close up mainstream media photos portrayed.
but McCain? That guy’s just not worthy. Just let him keep talking. No comment necessary. He’s gonna lose big.
the funny thing is, once upon a time an army from the West entered the Middle East and was greeted that way.
It was the Crusaders who were welcomed when they got to Antioch. Of course the reason that happened was because there was a huge Christian population there. A minority, but still really big and they were pretty happy the Crusaders showed up…which has NOTHING to do with the reality of today!