McCain on Iraq: Flip, Flop and Lie

Concerned Citizens
It is possible for some of McCains Iraq statements to be portrayed as flip flops but some are straight out lies.

What Palin Wrote About Iraq in 2006

What did Sarah Palin say in  written response to the Anchorage Daily News about the Iraq war in 2006?
13. This year saw the biggest wartime call-up of Alaska National Guard troops ever. Combined with deployments of active-duty forces, thousands of Alaskans are now serving in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere overseas. What’s your view of the [...]

Be Careful What You Whine About McBush

Photo from Huffington Post
John McBush should be more careful what he whines about.
He complained that Obama had not visited the battle zones, met the troops or talked with the generals, giving Obama full license to do so with immunity from charges of political grandstanding.  The photo ops for Obama are priceless.
Well done McBush.

On Iraq Obama Proved Smarter Than McCain in 2002-2003

McCain constantly brags about his Vietnam prisoner of war experience as making him a better Commander in Chief than Obama but on the biggest military decision since Vietnam he was … well …. he was just plain stupid.  Bush stupid.  Obama called Iraq right and McCain, notwithstanding his experience as a prisoner of war in [...]

Pssst McCain, They Aren’t Laughing WITH You

John McCain has shown  himself to have a pretty good sense of humor.  He can handle himself well on Letterman or the Daily Show.  But his sense of humor appears to have gotten the better of him when the 71 year old war hawk (bomb, bomb, bomb, … bomb, bomb Iran)  promotes  himself as an [...]

Clinton & McCain

United States Senate Legislation & Records
U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 107th Congress – 2nd Session
as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate
Vote Summary
Question: On the Joint Resolution (H.J.Res. 114 )
Vote Number: 237 Vote Date: October 11, 2002, 12:50 AM
Required For Majority: 1/2 Vote Result: Joint Resolution [...]

19 US Deaths in 1 Week of McCain-Bush Surge

ROBERT H. REID  AP News
A roadside bomb killed an American soldier in Baghdad on Saturday, capping the bloodiest week for U.S. troops in Iraq this year. Clashes persisted in Shiite areas, even as the biggest Shiite militia sought to rein in its fighters.   …..  The death raised to at least 19 the number of American [...]

Senator McCain … About YOUR Surge

For weeks now the Septuagenarian Senator John McCain has been strutting and bobbing around bragging about how he has been proven right for backing George Bush’s Iraq surge.  Well, thing are not actually looking all that good in surge country Senator McCain.  The NYT is reporting that Sh’ite milita openly control large portions of Basra [...]

Hillary’s “Experience” Led Her To Support Bush’s Iraq War

With so much talk by Hillary Clinton, and her Clinton News Network surrogates, about her alleged experience,  it might be worth remembering that it was Hillary’s  most significant experience, eight years as wife of President Clinton that led her to vote to give George W. Bush the authority to invade Iraq as she herself said [...]