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Today's McCain Myth: John McCain understands the situation in Iraq. http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS144857+20-Mar-2008+PRN20080320WASHINGTON, March 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following was issued today by the Democratic National Committee: John McCain often boasts on the campaign trail that "I know the situation in Iraq." Yet again and again, McCain has gotten it wrong on Iraq, just like the Bush Administration.
Just this week, McCain made a series of major misstatements about Iraq that revealed how little he understands of the situation on the ground. At a press
conference on Tuesday, McCain said that it's "common knowledge...that al-Qaeda is going back into Iran and receiving training and are coming back into Iraq
from Iran," even though Iran is not helping al-Qaeda terrorists. Then today, the so-called foreign policy expert issued a similar statement linking al-Qaeda and Iran, which his campaign advisers have falsely insisted is accurate.
It's not surprising, then, that in 1991 when discussing Iraq on CNN's Larry King Live McCain said "I'm not sure that if we did go in on the ground we could tell a Shiite from a Sunni, even from a Kurd." King Live, 4/23/1991]
After five years of war, how can the American people trust another president who can get the facts so wrong?
McCain Gets Iraq Facts Wrong. "Sen. John McCain, traveling in the Middle East to promote his foreign policy expertise, misidentified in remarks Tuesday which broad category of Iraqi extremists are allegedly receiving support from Iran. He said several times that Iran, a predominately Shiite country, was supplying the mostly Sunni militant group, al-Qaeda. In fact, officials have said they believe Iran is helping Shiite extremists in Iraq....Pressed to elaborate, McCain said it was 'common knowledge and has been reported in the media that al-Qaeda is going back into Iran and receiving training and are coming back into Iraq from Iran, that's well known. And it's unfortunate...The mistake threatened to undermine McCain's argument that his decades of foreign policy experience make him the natural choice to lead a country at war with terrorists." here]
1991: McCain Says We Can't "Tell a Shiite From a Sunni." During an interview on CNN's Larry King Live, McCain said ""I'm not sure that if we did go in on the ground we could tell a Shiite from a Sunni, even from a Kurd." Larry King Live, 4/23/1991]
After casting himself as a "Maverick" in 2000, the new John McCain is walking in lockstep with President Bush, pandering to the right wing of the Republican Party, and embracing the ideology he once denounced. On the campaign trail McCain has callously abandoned many of his previously held positions, even contradicted himself, in a blatant attempt to remake himself into a candidate
Republicans can accept in 2008. So just who is the real John McCain? The Democratic National Committee will present a daily fact aimed at exposing the man behind the myth.
Paid for and authorized by the Democratic National Committee, www.democrats.org.
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Re: Majority of veterans support McCain, don't like Obama
Posted: Jul 28, 2008 7:02 PM (6 of 26)
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Evidently only because they have not "educated" themselves enough to know the REAL John McCain!
If all the military veterans in this country were REALLy aware of McCains voting record on veterans, they'd clearly have difficulty supporting him.
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http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2008/04/06/20080406maverick0406.html
y Dan Nowicki - Apr. 6, 2008 12:00 AM
The Arizona Republic
John McCain has been called a "maverick" Republican for so long that most Americans started taking his independence for granted a long time ago.
His public persona as a straight-talking, pork-busting, politically centrist war hero - firmly established during his upstart 2000 presidential run against GOP front-runner George W. Bush - is one of the greatest assets for this year's presumptive Republican nominee.
But a look back at McCain's 25-year political career in Arizona and on the national stage reveals a unique figure far more complicated than either his campaign's marketing machine or hostile Democratic Party operatives will admit. http://www.fcx.com/careers/current.htm
He has demonstrated a repeated willingness to buck fellow Republicans and stray from GOP orthodoxy since he first ran for Congress in 1982.
He also has a record of heartily supporting Bush on some of his most controversial priorities, including the Iraq war and comprehensive immigration reform.
In 2007, as he ramped up for his second White House run, McCain voted with Bush 95 percent of the time, according to Congressional Quarterly, which tallied votes McCain was present for on issues in which the administration took a position.
There is political value in maverickism. Presidential candidates rarely present themselves as strict party people as they court middle-of-the-road voters during the general-election season. And the notion of rugged individualism is still ingrained in the American psyche.
Still, a maverick is sometimes hard to define and, in politics, the free spirits are often the most inconsistent.
Over the years, McCain has given the opposition ammunition: The Democratic National Committee issues regular "McCain Myth Buster" news releases accusing McCain of "walking in lockstep with President Bush, pandering to the right wing of the Republican Party, and embracing the ideology he once denounced."
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http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS185334+06-May-2008+PRN20080506
McCain Praised Alito And Roberts As Two Of The Greatest Justices In Court's
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It's about judgment, my friends....
"And I believe that the success will be fairly easy" and "There's no doubt in my mind that... we will be welcomed as liberators."(John McCain 3/24/03)
"I think we could go in with much smaller numbers than we had to do in the past... I don't believe it's going to be nearly the size and scope that it was in 1991." (John McCain 9/15/02)
"There's not a history of clashes that are violent between Sunnis and Shias. So I think they can probably get along." (John McCain 4/23/03)
"Look, we're going to send young men and women in harm's way and that's always a great danger, but I cannot believe that there is an Iraqi soldier who is going to be willing to die for Saddam Hussein, particularly since he will know that our objective is to remove Saddam Hussein from power." (John McCain 9/15/02)
"But the fact is, I think we could go in with much smaller numbers than we had to do in the past. But any military man worth his salt is going to have to prepare for any contingency, but I don't believe it's going to be nearly the size and scope that it was in 1991." (John McCain 09/15/02)
"He's a patriot who has the best interests of his country at heart."(John McCain on Ahmed Chalabi, 2002)
"Absolutely. Absolutely." (John McCain, asked by Chris Matthews, "you believe that the people of Iraq or at least a large number of them will treat us as liberators?" 03/12/03)
I think the victory will be rapid, within about three weeks. (John McCain, MSNBC, 1/28/03)
It's clear that the end is very much in sight. ... It won't be long. It, it'll be a fairly short period of time. (John McCain, ABC, 4/9/03)
We're either going to lose this thing or win this thing within the next several months. (Meet The Press, 11/12/06)
"Well, then why was there a banner that said mission accomplished on the aircraft carrier?"
"My friends, the war will be over soon, the war for all intents and purposes although the insurgency will go on for years and years and years." (John McCain, 02/25/08)
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