McCain to deliver Afghanistan speech later this week.

[ErinBerin84]

Heh, well, this should be sufficiently painful!

http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0708/McCain_to_deliver_Afghanistan_speech_later_this_week.html


McCain to deliver Afghanistan speech later this week

On a McCain campaign conference call dedicated to piling on Obama's Iraq op-ed and his position on the surge, Randy Scheunemann drops a hint that McCain will speak on Afghanistan later this week -- and Sen. Lindsey Graham follows up by saying it will be Thursday.

Graham, and campaign senior foreign policy adviser Kori Schake, honed in on a central disagreement that I looked at a couple weeks ago: Obama thinks that America should be focused on Islamic extremism in Afghanistan -- where Al Qaeda and the Taliban have been on the comeback -- instead of the "diversion" of Iraq.

Graham hoped that Obama's upcoming visit to Iraq -- where he'll meet with General David Petraeus -- would change his mind. “I hope he’ll be convinced that Iraq is a central battle in the war on terror,” he said.

Schake argued that Obama was over-focusing on Afghanistan, which could give short shrift to the upsurge in threats around the world and in Iraq -- a sort of reversal of the Obama argument that McCain and Bush "took their eye off the ball" when it came to Iraq and terrorism.

[TwilightGardener]

1. LOL! Let them worry about "overfocusing" on Afghanistan, and keep making

the claim that Iraq is the central front, etc. All while the Iraqis want a timetable for us to get out, and Georgie is going to pull troops out of Iraq and send them to...Afghanistan! They're getting slowly boxed in, their position on continuing the Iraq war forevah is becoming untenable in the face of current events.