McCain on the Iraq Invasion: "We were greeted as liberators...But that's a job for the historians."

[jefferson_dem]

The scumbag needs to get skewered for this one.

STEPHANOPOULOS: But there was a fundamental difference about the original decision to go to war. He said it would inflame the Muslim world, it would become a recruitment tool for al Qaeda.

You said, and you wrote, that it would lessen antipathy in the Muslim world, and that we'd be greeted as liberators.

Wasn't Senator Obama right about that?

MCCAIN: I don't believe so. We were greeted as liberators. We mishandled the war for nearly four years. We mishandled it in a way that was so harmful that I stood up against it. I said it wouldn't work. I said we had to have a new strategy, and I was criticized for being disloyal -- disloyal to Republicans.

STEPHANOPOULOS: You also said many times that the strategy was the right strategy.

MCCAIN: I said that Saddam Hussein caused a -- imposed a threat to the United States of America and our security. And the Oil for Food scandal, the $12 billion he was skimming, the fact that he had said that he had in operation and he wanted to have weapons of mass destruction, the fact that this society that he ruled in such a brutal fashion was really awful. And he did pose a long-term threat to the security of the United States of America.

But that's a job for the historians.

When the crucial time came as to whether we were going to leave Iraq and lose, or stay and do the very unpopular thing of 30,000 additional troops -- asking young Americans to make the sacrifice -- he was wrong, I was right. That was the crucial point...

STEPHANOPOULOS: And you don't...

MCCAIN: ... in the strategy.

STEPHANOPOULOS: ... accept that he was right and you were wrong...

MCCAIN: Of course not.

STEPHANOPOULOS: ... on the original decision.

MCCAIN: Of course not. Of course not.

http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/story?id=5457720&page=1

[liberal N proud]

1. Show me a picture of one flower that supposedly they would greet our troops with

Just one mr McGoo. One picture of one flower in Iraq following the invasion. I don't recall seeing any and I'm sure the M$M propaganda machine in the country would still be parading pictures like that in front of our faces if they existed.

Mr McGoo lives in his own little fantasy world and makes shit up as he goes along, that will be something that one day the historians will uncover. Trust me!

[tuvor]

16. Hard for the Iraqis to do that when your arrival is marked by showering "Shock & Awe" down on them.

[opihimoimoi]

2. Stunningly and Swimmingly in DENIAL....He has a DEFEAT WISH...its the only way to explain things

:toast:

[Wetzelbill]

3. I am always curious why people so devoid and ignorant of history, always refer to it

when lying about or dodging an issue. Hey Mr. Sunnis and Shia Have No History of Violence Against Each Other, I think you kind of lost your right to continually quote or mention history right around the millionth time you distorted it.

It's like Bush always tries to put on, "Well history says..." yeah I'd believe it if you actually showed that you know anything about it.

[Imagevision]

4. Liberators? - Cheney said the same thing, apparently McCain noticed too...

[Motown_Johnny]

5. Ummmmmm........

^We mishandled it in a way that was so harmful that I stood up against it.^



so... if it was mishandled in a way that was slightly less harmful he would not have stood up against it?

[donco6]

8. And he's only for a "little" torture.

Stuff that doesn't leave marks. You know.

[muntrv]

6. Obama campaign ad should say McSame is parroting Cheney.

[donco6]

7. I heard that this a.m. and almost choked on my coffee.

When did this happen? How did I miss it?

Then I figured he must be talking about that statue-toppling photo-op thingy.

[whistle]

9. History is written and preserved by the victors

[Muttocracy]

10. one of the MANY jaw-droppers in that interview. nt

[Posteritatis]

11. I really wish this administration would stop claiming my profession owes them anything

I don't get the relationship going on there. On the one hand, they tend to whine about historians being oh-so liberal and oh-so-maliciously "revisionist" (nevermind that I see more conservatives in history departments than I do in, say, economics departments); on the other, they expect we'll all come through to praise them as the best thing since Jesus twenty years from now. On the gripping hand, they've shown nothing but contempt for most history so far through the course of this whole farce masquerading as a presidency. I mean, what the hell, people?

[tekisui]

12. Wow. We went in because Saddam owed $12 billion, and wanted WMD's?

That sounds like an admission of a War Crime.

[Muttocracy]

13. and we're spending $10 billion a month to make up for it?!

[creeksneakers2]

14. The $12 billion is an exaggeration too.

The UN audit found less than $2 billion missing. Far more than that was stolen by the US caretaker government.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

15. By whom?

Oh, that's right, the looters.

[Union Thug]

17. Imposed a threat, eh? Explain how that works. n/t

[Monk06]

18. Something tells me the historians will not be quoting the wisdom of John Mc Cain. n/t

[GalleryGod]

19. Georgie-Porgy? Watch "Generation Kill" !

No "grunt" in his right mind would vote for this War @ 10,000 feet Asswipe!

[saltpoint]

20. I'm not a big George Steph fan but I'll admit he made pretty quick work

of McCain in this exchange.