Iraq violence contradicts McCain, and Kerry nailed it: he's desperate

[ProSense]

Baghdad’s relative calm ’shattered’ by violent attacks.

Yesterday, a “wave of attacks in Baghdad and areas north of the capital…shattered a relative lull in violence, killing 16 people and injuring 15.” The attacks came just one day after Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki declared that his government had “defeated” terrorism in Iraq. Today, a female suicide bomber “killed nine people and wounded 12 others in an attack on an Iraqi market.”

Troop deaths are down, but Iraq is still an extremely dangerous place. McCain can't talk about what's actually going on in Iraq so his only hope is to spin.

McCain Campaign Falsely Asserts That Obama "Changed His Mind" On Iraq

Video: Kerry on McCain's Iraq Position

[ProSense]

1. McBush:

However, McCain, a former fighter pilot and Vietnam prisoner of war, says Iraq, not Afghanistan, is the "central front" in the war on terrorism. He believes that NATO and Pakistan must do more in Afghanistan until the United States can draw down its commitment in Iraq - a position which tracks Bush administration strategy.

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How is it that the media isn't nailing McCain on this ludicrous assertion?

[kentuck]

2. That only proves that we cannot pull our troops out...

so long as there is this kind of violence. If we did as Obama wanted, this could all fall apart and turn into a civil war. :sarcasm:

[ProSense]

3. What sovereignty?

Iraqi Prime Minister Wants Timetable For Withdrawal Of US Forces, al-Qaeda To Win

By: Blue Texan Monday July 7, 2008 10:31 am

The Prime Minister of Iraq is waving the white flag of surrender.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki raised the prospect on Monday of setting a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops as part of negotiations over a new security agreement with Washington.

It was the first time the U.S.-backed Shi'ite-led government has floated the idea of a timetable for the removal of American forces from Iraq.

Just a reminder:

Republican Sen. John McCain will not put a timetable on withdrawing troops from Iraq because that would "send the wrong signal to our enemies," says the Arizona senator's senior foreign policy adviser.

I look forward to McSame denouncing al-Maliki's defeatism.

UPDATE

The Pentagon tells al-Maliki to go to hell. We gotcher sovereignty right here, pal.

[Island Blue]

4. K & R.

:hi:

[politicasista]

5. K&R

:kick:

[ray of light]

6. I am SO effing sick of the media lies! Cyberspace is FULL of those lies now too.

[blm]

9. Dems are better at blaming other Dems instead of joining together to fight the MEDIA

that has been working complicitly with BushInc for years.

[ProSense]

7. The forgotten

casualties

[ProSense]

8. McCain still not talking about Iraq, still spinning

McCain: Obama Has "Definitely" Changed His Position On Iraq

[sourmilk]

10. Stories we should make more use of:

McThuselah's judgement, security credentials:

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/01/mccain-iraq-stroll/

April 1, 2007:
"Sen. John McCain strolled briefly through an open-air market in Baghdad today in an effort to prove that Americans are “not getting the full picture” of what’s going on in Iraq.

NBC’s Nightly News provided further details about McCain’s one-hour guided tour. He was accompanied by “100 American soldiers, with three Blackhawk helicopters, and two Apache gunships overhead.” Still photographs provided by the military to NBC News seemed to show McCain wearing a bulletproof vest during his visit.

McCain recently claimed that there “are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk through those neighborhoods, today.” In a press conference after his Baghdad tour, McCain told a reporter that his visit to the market today was proof that you could indeed “walk freely” in some areas of Baghdad."


http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/opinion_columnists/article/0,2777,DRMN_23972_5474380,00.html
April 2, 2007:
"Here's another unpleasant fact: The day after McCain's photo op, 21 people from that same market were kidnapped, taken north of the city, and murdered.