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| McCain Rips Obama |
| 2008-07-18 |
| Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Thursday ridiculed Democrat Barack Obama's vow to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq in 16 months as a political tactic aimed at getting votes. McCain, an Arizona senator, attacked Obama as the Democrat prepares to go on a foreign trip to the Middle East and Europe that the McCain camp called a rolling overseas campaign event. Ouch! Obama in a speech this week stuck by his pledge to withdraw U.S. combat forces from Iraq in 16 months, a policy McCain said would sacrifice the security gains that have recently brought a measure of stability to parts of the country. "This success that we have achieved is still fragile and could be reversed," McCain said on his campaign bus. "And if we do what Sen. Obama wants to do, then all of that could be reversed," and leave behind chaos and Iranian influence, he said. In a town hall meeting in Kansas City, McCain said troop withdrawals must be governed by the situation on the ground, "not some artificial, politically inspired" timetable. Obama is expected to soon go to Iraq and Afghanistan, the two major foreign policy challenges the next president will face. McCain called the visit "long, long overdue." McCain, who is running behind Obama in public opinion polls, was trying to make a major campaign issue of Obama's Iraq policy in hopes of convincing Americans that the Illinois senator is too inexperienced to be trusted to lead the country as commander in chief. Thank you Rooters, for making a sensible argument seem like a desperate gesture. On his bus, he said he hoped Obama will listen not only to commanders on the ground in the two war zones but also to the troops. "They'll tell him they don't want to be defeated," McCain said. "They'll tell him that the surge has succeeded," he said, referring to President George W. Bush's 2007 troop buildup. "They'll tell him that we're winning this war, will win it, if we don't do what he wants to do, which is to set a date for withdrawal." Having said all that, McCain said he was glad Obama was making the trip, disagreeing with his communications director, Jill Hazelbaker, who told the Fox News Channel: "Let's drop the pretense that this is a fact-finding trip and call it what it is: the first of its kind campaign rally overseas." How many others agree with Jill? Besides Rooters, I mean. |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #7 "Success ... is fragile and could be reversed" > Yep, NEITHER OVERT NOR COVERT US DOMINATION AND CONTROL OF OWG-NWO - E.G DESIRED BUREACRACIES, TREATISES, ECON, SOCIOPOL/CULTUR VALUES, etc. - IS ASSURED AT THIS TIME. As for BARACK, I hope his trip includes major stops in Moscow, Beijing, and New Delhi, etc. to discuss the WOT wid the Govts. of these Nations. LEST WE FERGIT, OSAMA + RADICAL ISLAM > ARE POINTING THE ISLAMIST-JIHADIST SWORD SOLELY AT RUSSIA + ASIA NOW, NO LONGER AT THE USA, RUSSIA, EUROS, ETC. As argued times before, RADICAL ISLAM + COLLUSORY COMMIE-RADICAL SECUL GROUPS ALL KNOW THEIR ANTI-US HONEYMOON CAN'T LAST FOREVER. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-07-18 19:50 |
| #6 I check my forecast at wunderground. I got a kick the other day when checking out The Weather Underground (as the site calls itself) and bo's face/ads were all over the place. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2008-07-18 17:33 |
| #5 "Let's drop the pretense that this is a fact-finding trip and call it what it is: the first of its kind campaign rally overseas." Otherwise known as The "Ich Bin Ein Eclair" Tour |
| Posted by: Pappy 2008-07-18 15:02 |
| #4 McCain, an Arizona senator Do they really feel they need to tell us that McCain is an Arizona Senator? Projecting him as a big unknown? These media outlet folks need to be put in their perspective places. |
| Posted by: Jan 2008-07-18 14:02 |
| #3 OB's pro-gun now. Maybe he will pop off a few hundred rounds with his army buddies, a la John Kerry, the Great White Duck Hunter. |
| Posted by: Richard of Oregon 2008-07-18 13:27 |
| #2 BO needs to shoot some hoops with the troops. Visit all the on base Gyms sit in the DFAC. You know, get the feel of the situation. "No questions please, I need to spend time on the ground" Maybe hire some TCNs to feint. |
| Posted by: TomAnon 2008-07-18 10:10 |
| #1 It is a campaign rally - mainly for Obamas biggest supporters: the press. All 3 network news anchors are going with him. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-07-18 10:00 |