McCain says Obama still wrong on Iraq, Afghanistan

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Source: Yahoo News

KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine - Republican Sen. John McCain insisted on Monday that he has been consistently right on both Iraq and Afghanistan while Democratic rival Sen. Barack Obama "has been completely wrong."

As Obama toured the war zones, McCain ridiculed him from afar during a visit with the first President Bush at his summer home on the Atlantic.

"My respect for him knows no bounds," the elder Bush said of McCain. Still, Bush said he wished Obama well on his overseas trip, and said he hoped the Democrat would get an especially warm welcome in Berlin.

McCain told reporters he didn't care if Obama's trip was stealing attention and "doesn't in the slightest undercut" his own message. "It is what it is," he told reporters..

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080721/ap_on_el_pr/mccain_3

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Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., makes a campaign stop at the Maine Military Museum in South Portland, Maine, Monday, July 21, 2008.(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

[babylonsister]

1. He's looking worse and worse, and sounding lamer and lamer.

Keep it up, McGaffe!

[maxsolomon]

2. you go john, keep making this election about the war that everyone but you hates

who's advising him, john bolton & charles krauthammer?

[truthisfreedom]

3. John "neener-neener" McLame.

The gift that keeps on gabbing.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. "We've succeeded. We're not succeeding, we've succeeded," McCain said.

Then the 'war' is over and we can bring all of our troops home? Which is it, McSame?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. Obama was RIGHT about Iraq

We should NOT have invaded/occupied in the first place and Obama recognized it and said as much BEFORE we invaded and LONG before even most of our "leaders" (including Democrats) came to that position. McCain ultimately seems to still believe that we made the right decision to invade/occupy Iraq despite the absence of WMD, which was Bush's primary justification for launching his unprovoked invasion/occupation with Iraq. Bush's decision was WRONG then and it's WRONG now. McCain's support of Bush's "surge", something that didn't even happen until 4+ years into the occupation, doesn't win McCain any points in my book and I doubt that historians will feel differently. Anybody can certainly support a change in the way the negative consequences of a bad decision are handled but at the end of the day supporting a bad decision that led to those consequences in the first place is STILL supporting a bad decision no matter how you spin it. The only thing IMHO that us staying (longer than what is needed to get everybody out of there safely) will accomplish is more deaths of innocent Iraqis and more troop casualties if not the complete destruction of our military. The Iraqis want us out within a fairly short timetable, a majority of the public want some kind of timetable for withdrawal, McCain himself has even claimed that we have "succeeded" in Iraq, so why can't we at least start making some tentative plans for leaving? How do YOU define "victory", John? Inquiring minds, soldiers (and their families), and NYT editors want to know.
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[damntexdem]

6. So that's why Dubya has been adopting Obama's policies?

[PSPS]

7. Well, what else would he say?