(CNN) McCain: Bush Not Straight Enough on Iraq

Oooooh, the article mentions Republican and Democratic senators attacking the president...
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/19/iraq.senators/index.html

Sickening, isn't it?

The bloodbath that will be brought on by the "bi partisan" support of the violent suppression of Iraq post election day will be a day remembered by the world when the united states completely lost it's fucking mind and went berserk.

we need to be more aggressive. No mention of bringing in the UN just more of the same. That means more of our soldiers are going to die. I wish they would wake up and realize that force is not working this situation. They need to do a total 180 when it comes to Iraq. We need to give these people something to live for, not something to die for.

not to mention something more for our troops to die for.

"McCain, who spent five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam after his Navy plane was shot down, hinted that Bush might be avoiding the specter of putting more American lives at risk.

"Airstrikes don't do it; artillery doesn't do it," he said. "Boots on the ground do it. That's one of the fundamentals of warfare."

"You've got to send our troops in there on the ground," he said. "And that, of course, means the most difficult kind of fighting.

"I think the president is being clear. I would like to see him more clear, because I believe the American people, the majority of them, know what's at stake and will support this effort."

McCain called for an increase in the Army of about 70,000 soldiers and for 20,000 to 25,000 more Marines."

Whats worse is that the Vietnamese don't go around throwing airplanes into buildings. This situation is so much worse than Vietnam.

McCain just absolutely makes me shake my head in disgust. My regard for him drops every time his name is mentioned, at this point. Because he's always doing something to prove what a pathetic patsy he is. That he'd be sticking up for these people AT ALL is beyond me. After what they did to him in South Carolina, and not just to him, either, but to his wife and adopted daughter...

JEEZ! I will NEVER understand him. I will NEVER understand the people of Arizona who repeatedly seem to think he's just a-ok. What the hell is with them?

...where we had absolutely no business being in the first place.

IMHO, they will NEVER accept us as friends after what we've done to them and their country. If some foreign country invaded the U. S. and did the same thing to us as we've done to the Iraqis, I'd feel exactly the same way.

a republican who's critical of bush.

it was pure corruption. The $18 Billion had lots of oversight and accountability strings attached, which the CPA didn't want to deal with. It was much easier to funnel the Iraqi oil money to any grubby hand (*cough* Halliburton) they desired.

been repsonsible for the thousands upon thousands of lost lives.

Not one mention of the slaughter and of Bush's incompetancy and lies for bringing us to that war and subsequent slaughter in the first place and his lies. Not one word.

McCain going around the country with Bush hugging him for the world to see?

Who have basically conceeded that the Iraq war is failing.

Sorry but I am so tired of him playing every side.

but it's all for naught when I see him continue to support * after what * said about his daughter back in '00. I know some people consider it part of politics, but attacking someone's child over an issue which they can't control seems barbaric. If someone was to say something like that about my kid, I would have a hard time not putting them in the hospital, yet McCain *campaigns* for him.

McCain's adopted daughter to be an absolute mortal sin. How DARE HE!!! And what the hell is McCain doing, kissing his butt in public? My dad never ONCE would have stood for that if someone had dragged me into an attempt to attack him. But McCain doesn't seem to mind. FEH on him.

Oh yes - and nothing from his wife on this, either...

Go Figure.

as far as i'm concerned, they're finished as serious public servants....
the politicians get most of blame for vietnam, but lookit these two!

If Bush is not straight, is he gay, bi, necro, or bestial?

His preference/predilection matters little to me, but I think that some of his fundie base may take an interest.

http://www.bushorchimp.com/

Sorry if you've seen it but it's always good to take another look for verification.

His answer to everything is escalation. Fuck that! Now is not the time to be sending more bullet catchers into that rat-hole. Declare victory and run like hell before it is too late. If its not already too late that is.

Don

After seeing him and Shrub leaning on each other like that,
it's hard for his words to motivate me ...

In the land of Busheney, if they say it, the media reportes it as fact and the American people eat it up. So there you have it.

We have won the war and the troops all get to come home by Christmas.

Just a matter of timing. I suppose if we can pull off some kind of election, that declaring victory and splitting before the roof caves in would work fairly well.

We're not going to "win" there in any other sense. Sooner we all face up to that, the better for everyone involved.


BTW, Welcome to DU!

...particularly since you have to be legally elected in this country to be one.

'Bush said in an interview Saturday that Iraq is "defying the dire predictions of a lot of people by moving toward democracy." (Full story)'

just when you think bush would eventually have to run out of stupidity, since he uses it constantly....

kerry needs to keep saying how this administration is living in a fantasy world.

is that he looks at Iraq and dreams about how nice it would be if he could shoot his 'enemies'. That is chimpy's wet dream democracy.

And they have the nerve to call John Kerry a "flipflopper"? Follow McCain's intellectual journeys and you'll end up in some dimension that quantum mechanics doesn't even know about yet.

Yes, I sincerely respect his military service and the hardships he went through. But his pronouncements have gotten so muddled that he badly, desperately, needs to be called out.

McCain, Lugar, and Hagel are vying to out-tough each other for the '08 nomination. Maybe the party even sanctioned it. That's why Biden did his little smile and head shake- he realized his Senate pal was running for office.

especially about McCain.

Bush is a chronic liar, he will NEVER be straight with Murikan's.

Go away McCain - you fucker, criticise Bush one day - hug him the next!

I smell a KKKarl Rove here. I don't know why, but that feeling of no vaseline just comes too frequently these days and with harder intensity.

I agree with the rest of you, what happened to the Bush/McCain Lovefest? Did someone forget the Vaseline or was this timed?

appears to solidly back bush but throws the dems a nugget every 2 weeks or so.

We all need to make sure we are never played by the McCain/GOP "Good cop/Bad cop" routine again...

As others at DU have suggested- McCain may be prempting the thunder of DEM criticisim and making it less effective. The memo being somthing like: "McCain admits Whitehouse mistakes, but still agrees Bush is the man..."