After Four Years of Certainty, McCain ‘Not Positive We Can Win’ In Iraq

[babylonsister]

Time for Weathervane McCain to do some spinning?


http://thinkprogress.org/2007/08/08/mccain-not-sure/

After Four Years of Certainty, McCain ‘Not Positive We Can Win’ In Iraq


During debate in the Senate last month, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) attacked his colleagues who demanded a strategic redeployment out of Iraq by asking, “The terrorists are in this war to win it. The question is, are we?”

It appears McCain’s answer to his own question is no. At a fundraiser for his presidential campaign last night, he conceded, “I’m not positive we can win this fight”:

“I’m not positive we can win this fight,” he told about 150 people at a $50-a-person fundraiser in a Highland Township barn. “But I believe we’re winning. The Anbar province is dramatically better and Baghdad has some neighborhoods that are much more secure.”

McCain’s doubts come after four years of predicting easy victory in Iraq:

– “Because I know that as successful as I believe we will be, and I believe that the success will be fairly easy, we will still lose some American young men or women.” {CNN, 9/24/02}

– “But the point is that, one, we will win this conflict. We will win it easily.” {MSNBC, 1/22/03]}

– “It’s going to be long, tough, very difficult, but … we can win.” {PBS, 11/10/05}

– “I believe that we can succeed and I believe the consequences of failure are catastrophic.” {CBS, 4/8/07}

– “We’re going to win. We will. We will never surrender.” {AP, 4/18/07}

Previously, McCain has attacked senators who have expressed doubts about the mission in Iraq like those he voiced yesterday, accusing them of “embrac the policy of surrender” and “waving a white flag to al Qaeda.”

[Philosoraptor]

1. Oh a flip flopping cut & running unpatriotic traitorous supporter of the terrorists eh?

[BOSSHOG]

2. He is expected to concede that the earth revolves around the sun

in a future press conference.

[Hubert Flottz]

3. I guess carrying his own bags sweated whatever that was he's...

been snorting out of his system. I think it was crack and I think I know who's it was.

[zabet]

5. ....

:spray::spray::spray:

[dkofos]

4. You can only go down on *ush so many time before the public sees

you as irrelevant.

[beberocks]

6. John, take another walk around Baghdad before you jump to any conclusions

I think McCain is going senile. Whatever common sense he had
is gone. He's either in denial, or (IMO) losing it. (Of
course, hugging Bush could cause almost anybody to lose it!)

[TomInTib]

7. $50-a-person?

Goodness, Johnnie's knocking 'em out of the park.

[BrotherBuzz]

9. And in a barn, to boot!

[babylonsister]

11. :o) Yes, I caught that; high finance going on there. nt

[TwilightGardener]

8. "We're winning, but I'm not positive we can win." WTF? Can you

cover your ass and hedge your bets any more than that?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

10. Has he ever said what winning means?

Has any Republican?

[LeftishBrit]

12. Did the doctors remove him from Bush's rear end during the colonoscopy, then?

[Disturbed]

13. McLame is in melt down but he is too ego tripped out to

realize that. Maybe he is going for the sympathy vote? I loath this Asshole but even I am starting to feel a little sorry for him because it is sad to witness a fellow human implode.

[Hubert Flottz]

14. I think Jonny is headed for the big repiggy possum round-up in

de-skies...with the other woulda', coulda', shoulda', bushites and bushitters and busheyviks...



Happy trails Johnny me lad...

[MrSlayer]

15. Wow. One tick closer to reality.

By 2037 he might have the right of it.