McCain Calling for 40,000 More Troops

[Stephanie]

Quoting generals who say we need 80,000 more. McCain "Every war there are terrible mistakes made. But we can fix them."

How can he live with himself after what he's done?

McCain's on MTP.

[Florida_Geek]

1. Get McCain that is the same number Kerry wanted

Why didn't you speak up THEN.

[JI7]

2. That's what Kerry had been saying throughout the campaign

McCain running for 2008 on Kerry's platform.

[LittleClarkie]

9. If that's what he's doing then it's weird

Even so I'll wait and see what he does. His Bush campaigning was bizaare. But he might be helping to push is friend's agenda, because he know Kerry was right and can now say so.

I can't completely flush McCain as long as I know that a guy I admire has him for a friend.

[still_one]

16. i can

anyone who supports *, when in 2000 * trashes his wife and kid, is not a stable person

After the inane budget vote by MOST of the democrats yesterday, which included anti-abortion language, screw most of the democrats

I am glad that kerry and edwards voted against it, but when dashille, feinstein, shummer, and quite a few others vote for it, the democratic party is no longer viable

we either need to start a new party, or throw the BUMS OUT!!!

they don't represent me

[fujiyama]

23. My guess

is there has been something of a falling out between their friendship over the last few months.

Apparently McCain tried calling Kerry after the election but Kerry never returned his calls. I don't Kerry really likes him much very more. The active campaigning for Bush must have really disgusted him.

McCain is a sad, pathetic figure.

[Leilani]

28. McCain was in New Hampshire the other night

& gave an interview...

said he & Kerry have talked a couple of times since the election..

& he gave Kerry advice on how to use his loss to achieve goals...

said they're still good friends...

[metisnation]

18. Beautiful Support McCain

Divide the GOP electorate. Hardcore pubbies dislike him...I always tell my hardcore GOP friends that I voted for McCain in the 2000 primary just to watch them squirm. I voted for Gore after finding out he wouldn't win. This is the philosphical point that I changed parties.

:dem:

[JI7]

19. i voted for him in the primary because i hated bush so much

i didn't feel strongly about gore or bradley to support one or the other. i would have been equally happy with whoever had won the nomination and had planned to support and vote for whoever won in november. so i voted in the republican primary against bush. i even registered republican just to do that.

[A Brand New World]

35. That's so funny because I did the same thing! I didn't realize at the time

though that in Ohio by doing that I was changing to Repub. Then I started getting all of these phone calls and literature. I was horrified to hear then that I was registered as a Repub. Could not wait til the next primary so that I could get that horrible title away from my name. But I hated * so much at the first sight that I did this so I could vote against him. Still despise him.

[Leilani]

30. Kerry called for 40,000 more troops for the military

because it was so stretched & overworked.

But not to send the 40,000 to Iraq.

McCain on the other hand, has been calling for more troops since the beginning, along with Joe Biden & some others.

We never had enough troops in Iraq.

The entire war is a disgrace. For political reasons they didn't send enough troops.

Bush & Rumsfeld KNOW there aren't enough troops there.

I think we should just pull out...it will never be stable over there.

[havocmom]

3. Stephanie, remember the Keating 5 & how McCain got off?

Think maybe he had some help? Think maybe a marker was called in?

[Stephanie]

4. He sure looked like a hostage in those pix

Remember that picture on the plane where Bush has him pinned under his left arm in the doorway? He absolutely humiliated himself by kissing the hand that attacked his wife and child. You must be right - what other explanation is there?

[havocmom]

14. 'Hostage' that was EXACTLY what I thought when I saw those campaign

'buddy pictures.

Let's look into the "Way-Back Machine" to the S&L disaster of the 80s...
oh, yeah, Neil Bush was there...

edit: typo

[Stephanie]

5. Now McCain's saying the CIA tried to influence the election for Kerry

by leaking info, and the CIA should not be involved.

[JI7]

8. not ok for CIA to help Kerry but it's ok for Bin Laden to help Bush

[LittleClarkie]

11. Interesting that presenting the TRUTH means you're campaigning

for Kerry.

Sorry about that truth, everyone. We'll just get rid of all those "liberal democrats" in the CIA and you'll never have do deal with the truth again.

Eh, deary me. I think I'll have to start calling McCain Sybil. I think the dude's confused.

[MSgt213]

6. We can fix them. What a fucking moronic statement. Every war mistakes

are made, but you don't fix mistakes of life and death. After some one is dead there is no fixing it. You avoid war if at all possible you don't fight at all. Every war has it's challenges, but fighting a inferior weaker enemy posses even greater challenges then fighting someone your equal or stronger. Fighting someone weaker can mean you lose even when you win and the weaker can win even though they lose.

[booksenkatz]

21. Hey McCain! Fix these mistakes, motherfucker!

WARNING: GRAPHIC PHOTOS OF YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK!
http://fallujapictures.blogspot.com/

:grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr:

[Jo March]

7. McJudas is speaking up without the King's permission?

Amazing.

I have no respect for that man. I hope that he can live with the fact that he sold his soul to the devil.

[Stephanie]

10. Who says it's without permission? Everyone knows they're going to need a

draft. Maybe they sent McCain out first to broach the subject.

[still_one]

12. screw mccain

he screwed people by taking bribes from keating during the S&L crisis

and now he screwed American soldiers by supporting *

like powell they are lost causes

[Donna Zen]

13. Are we sure McCain should run on the Dems ticket?

Just a reality check.

McCain is a sellout! That's all...just a sellout. He learned nothing from Vietnam, and he doesn't support the troops. If he actually supported anything; stood for anything; he would have actively campaigned against this murdering thugs in the White House.

McCain supported this illegal invasion from the outset; still does. Lies? He could give a moral-shit. CIA supported Kerry? Is that McCain's idea of a bad joke. Where's the 911 report McCain?

OMG_McCain does not speak for me; and I will never vote for that piece of bush-toilet-paper.

[Stephanie]

15. Hi Donna!!

How are you! :hi:

Might be coming to visit you soon. On my way to escaping to Canada. :)

[AzDar]

17. John McCain is a whore...bought and paid for. He disgusts me. n/t

[The Backlash Cometh]

20. He is turning out to be slimey, isn't he?

[Ms_Mary]

24. He keeps supporting Bush even though he doesn't support any

of the same things. It's a real shame. McCain could have been decent. He's a strong environmental proponent and he's whoring himself out to a man who doesn't believe global warming exists. He leveled a lot of quiet criticism at Bush during the election, but still lent him public support. It disappoints me.

[Edgewater_Joe]

22. Where Does He Intend To Get Them?

Can we outsource it?

[Hans Delbrook]

34. Draft Young Republicans /nt

[seaglass]

25. The straight talker is a hypocrite. I am so glad that Kerry

didn't return his post-election phone call.

[LittleClarkie]

27. Was that on MTP just now, or is it in an article somewhere

I'd like to read more about it if there is a source.

Oh my, that would be telling if Kerry is disgusted with him. In some ways I thought of them as the dog and the coyote in the WB cartoon, adversaries until the noon lunch whistle, then sitting down together for lunch, then punching back in and being adversaries again. But I could see where McCain went too far this campaign season. It was just weird, really.

[seaglass]

36. No, I read it in the last week or so, I'm sorry I can't remember

the source.

It was only a one sentence comment in a longer article and I can't even remember if it was McCain who said it (I think so).

[Stephanie]

38. Oh, I didn't know that. Is that true?

That makes me happy. McCain's an embarrassment.

[zulchzulu]

26. Whatever last drips of integrity are gone with McCain't

He is an unswerving apparachik of the Bush Regime. He tries to play it both ways, but in the end, he is nothing more than a lost soldier in the fog of Bush's war on the truth.

I hope he runs again in 2008 so that the Repuglicans can chop him down again with their lies. Run John, run.

Watch the neocon theocratic thugs come after you and destroy you once and for all. You fell on the sword many times for them and they will repay you with a sword plunged deeply and twisted into your back.

Hopefully, McCain's last words will be how he was lied to by those that said they were his friends.

[sonicx]

29. but but...bush said troop levels were fine!!...

"if my generals ask for em, i'll send em!!"

:eyes:

[Leilani]

31. They lie

& our troops die...

[matcom]

32. he is wrong

we need 200,000 more troops - IN SOMALIA :eyes:

fuck it. send 'em all. why stop now?

let's dump the whole load.

Fuck you McCain! DO IT ASSHOLE! put your fucking money where your mouth is dick.

DO IT!

[matcom]

33. kick for the McCain lovers here

c'mon!!! THIS IS A GREAT IDEA RIGHT?? RIGHT???????

[against all enemies]

37. McCain sold his soul to the Rove devil, go to hell John.