McCain: ‘I Was The Greatest Critic’ Of The Iraq War Over The Last Four Years

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/08/18/mccain-greatest-critic/

Yesterday on CNN, host Kiran Chetry suggested to Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) that he’s been unfairly “painted as being a huge supporter of the president’s Iraq strategy. Is that an accurate portrayal?” she asked.

McCain responded that “life isn’t fair” because, in reality, he’s been “the greatest critic of the initial four years” of war:

It’s entertaining, in that I was the greatest critic of the initial four years, three and a half years. I came back from my first trip to Iraq and said, This is going to fail. We’ve got to change the strategy to the one we’re using now. But life isn’t fair.

Watch it:

The “greatest critic” who claimed the war would “fail”? Nobody heard that from McCain when he was busy campaigning for Bush’s reelection in 2004 and praising the President’s leadership. Here’s a sampling of what the “greatest critic” of the war was telling us in the months and years after the invasion:

“But I believe, Katie, that the Iraqi people will greet us as liberators.” {NBC, 3/20/03}

“It’s clear that the end is very much in sight.” {ABC, 4/9/03}

“There’s not a history of clashes that are violent between Sunnis and Shiahs. So I think they can probably get along.” {MSNBC, 4/23/03}

“This is a mission accomplished. They know how much influence Saddam Hussein had on the Iraqi people, how much more difficult it made to get their cooperation.” {This Week, ABC, 12/14/03}

“I’m confident we’re on the right course.” {ABC News, 3/7/04}

Stick a blunt fork in him.

I mean, I once considered him on a level with Colin Powell (pre-UN). Now he's become such a sell-out.

is as batshit crazy as he is.

I heard that for four years McCain has leveled unwithering
criticism on the Bush Administration for not making the
camouflage uniforms of US troops in Iraq a shade darker.
Great, unrelenting, merciless criticism.

He thinks it is the right was, done wrong. Should have MORE troops.

He is funny that way.

Don

You really need to get out more.

Sincerely,
gratuitous

will give him that--I remember it. But criticizing HOW to conduct the war does not make one a "war critic"--armchair warriors do it everyday--that's a STRATEGY/TACTICS critic. A CRITIC of the war would be defined as a person who argued that the war isn't worth fighting or should end. So now he's trying to appeal to both the neocon warmongers AND the Dem antiwar crowd. Good luck with that, Walnuts!

:wtf::wow:

and wants to be the big president of all of us so he can continue in the fascist vein of the bushits.

Didn't he say he went to Iraq and everything was all rosy peach keen?

For awhile I was thinking he was just really out of touch.Now I think he's just really insane.Seriously.

Three sentences...three edits for spelling. :freak:

:eyes:

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liar in chief, isn't he?