Daily Kos: Did McCain Visit Waziristan? (McCain's Tuzla)

Cali_Democrat

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Mon Sep-29-08 04:26 AM
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Daily Kos: Did McCain Visit Waziristan? (McCain's Tuzla)

Edited on Mon Sep-29-08 04:49 AM by Cali_Democrat

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/29/01317/5166/321/613941

Did McCain Visit Waziristan? Lie About Country First?
by kravitz
Sun Sep 28, 2008 at 11:52:14 PM PDT

John McCain truly needs to explain to America about just why he is running for president, based on quotes from his book. Additionally, there also seems to be a valid question about whether John McCain was ever in Waziristan. Simply because he says it, without proof, some people will believe it, and reporters print it. Where is the documented proof of his trip to a terrorist stronghold?

December 27, 2007

"It may serve to enhance those credentials or make people understand that I've been to Waziristan, I know Musharraf, I can pick up the phone and call him. I knew Benazir Bhutto. I know the area. But I hate for anything like this to be the cause of any political gain for anybody," he said.

The First Presidential Debate at Ole Miss, Friday, September 26, 2008

I've been to Waziristan. I can see how tough that terrain is. It's ruled by a handful of tribes.

Waziristan is a deadly region within Pakistan at the Pakistan/Afghanistan border. Some controlling faction is not big on visitors, outsiders or journalists. Their issues have been going on literally for years.

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We've been sending drones to check the place out. Could he have flown over? That is not the same as walking the soil in the least.

If McCain had been there, it would seem we would have seen something describing such a treacherous trip.

Yet we haven't.

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Mon Sep-29-08 04:29 AM
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1. Well, he is probably lying...

they do it everyday.

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Cali_Democrat

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Mon Sep-29-08 04:53 AM
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2. Hopefully the media will call him on this tall tale

The Pakistani military has no control over Waziristan and McCain claims to have been there.

What a joke.

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Mon Sep-29-08 04:57 AM
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3. I like your sticker, Hits it right on the head.

I can not understand this hoping to re-turn to the age of the 'royals' in Europe and having second rate people from once great families running things. It is that elite thinking, that families were born to rule us common people, that makes a lot of problems. I will go for talent myself.

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