Senator John McCain has been in full spin mode over his surge in Iraq and lying about Iran’s involvement in the U.S. occupation, and on Monday’s Countdown, Keith Olbermann talks with IAVA’s <corrected> Paul Rieckhoff about another whopper from the aging, war mongering GOP presidential candidate. During a campaign appearance in California, Senator McCain made a bold statement about the War on Terror that would have undoubtedly driven the wingnuts blind with anger and rage had it been uttered by a Democrat:
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“For the first time I’ve seen Osama bin Laden and General Petraeus in agreement. And that is, the central battleground and the battle against al Qaeda is in Iraq today, and that’s what bin Laden is saying and that’s what General Petraeus is saying — and that’s what I’m saying.”
Senator McCain certainly got one thing right; Osama bin Laden relishes the idea of the U.S. being bogged down in Iraq for the next hundred years and continuing to serve as a recruiting tool for al Qaeda. The Bush-McCain surge is barely holding on by a thread and even in areas that were not part of the surge, such as Basra in the southern part of the country, where the president is expected to ask Britain to lead a NEW surge of troops in to quell a Shiite civil war that is raging out of control. Dick Cheney was reported to have said: “So? They Volunteered.”
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Frist?
Look, he’s right. The only sensible course for the US is to do exactly what Osama bin Laden says we should do. I think I heard that on a tape or something.
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This proves it…
They’re ALL on the same side.
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Of course Bin Laden wants us in Iraq….they’ll never find him THERE.
i’d like to know what else mccain agree with bin laden on…
psst, mccain, you are embarrassing yourself (again)
StevePam @ 4:
Good point!
Wow….McCain you wiley bastard, using Bin Laden to justify 100 more years of illegal war-makins…shrewd…very shrewd…ok..maybe just stupid.
Ain’t no money in PEACE.
McCain should listen to that old saying that says quit while you’re ahead. Stop now and drop out before he says or does something that is going to make totally out of it.
I was reading a post at Jesus’ General and the General writes a post pretending to be McCain. At one place he mentions that McCain can’t use a computer. With that is a link and the link takes you to a video of McCain being interviewed. The interviewer asks McCain if he uses a pc or a Mac. McCain answers that he uses neither, his wife has to handle the computer operations in his house. So we could have a president who can’t use a computer. How sad and embarrassing would that be?
Didn’t bin Laden talk about defeating the US by crippling the country economically?
Isn’t McCain suggesting that you hand bin Laden exactly what he was hoping for?
Bushco has already given bin laden just about everything he demanded in his fatwa,, why not this?
Max-Hussein-1 @ 3:
Well it’s sure as hell getting pretty hard to argue otherwise.
They’re either on the same side, or the righties are ridiculously stupid. And much as I do believe some of them are stupid, I don’t believe they’re ALL *THAT* stupid.
If everyone finally agrees that the war against al Qaeda is now in Iraq, it can only mean one thing - invade Iran!!
Jeez, what happened to my words?
That originally read. Stop now and drop out before he says or does something that is going to make him appear to be totally out of it.
TeeVee will fix it.
when al qaeda attacked us on 9/11, i don’t they could even imagine it would turn out this good for them.
Spoon:
Here comes the man from the stars
We don’t know why, he goes so far
To keep on marching along,
beatin’ his drum.
Thugs and stick and bats and balls
for nuclear dicks with dialect drawls
they come from a parking lot town
where nothing lives in the sun
Don’t make me a target,
Don’t make me a target,
No, don’t make me a target.
When you reach back in his mind
feels like he’s breaking the law
There’s something back there he got
that nobody knows
He never claimed to say what he says
He smells like the inside of closets and stairs
The kind,
Where nobody goes
Don’t make me a target,
Don’t make me a target,
No, don’t make me a target.
*closets under stairs”
Today on the Huffington Post (I call it the Huff) they have an article that says “McCain On Iraq: “We’re Succeeding.
I Don’t Care What Anybody Says”"
Next to that article, on the right, says this “Critical Iraq Cease Fire Appears To Be Unraveling” with a photo of Al-Sadr, I think.
McClueless (is this #500?) and the Straight to Hell Express remind me a kid in middle school, holding his hands to his head, and screaming “No no I’m not listening!” If it’s soooo much of a success, then why is Al Sadr and his forces engaging in civil disobedience campaigns?
If they leave the cease-fire and 20 more soldiers get killed this month, will that be evidence enough? Or will those “independents” have to show more sense than McSenile.
Its time for Bin Laden to bring out another tape. I wonder how much we pay him to do these tapes?
Eric in Ottawa @ 10:
Lets examine this….Bin Laden has said we should do as he says or we will be attacked again….so we should be proud of the Bush McCain knowledgability in keeping us safe.
pissed off patricia @ 13:
Maybe you just had a “senior moment”. Kind of like those McLostIt has only a lot shorter.
The reason why Bin Laden (if he’s still alive) likes it is because we are draining our treasury at the rate of 12 billion a month. I honestly believe repugs like Bush and McSame have the same goal of draining our treasury for a different reason.
Repugs want to de-fund our gov’t to the point it becomes useless and then they can claim gov’t doesn’t work and use it as a reason to finish off what’s left of the New Deal.
Wow.
This old guy has lost it.
greg @ 20:
Maybe he can get a gig with FOX News. All the other terrorists work there.
I hope Gordon Brown tells Busholini to go Cheney himself!
Whats the Dem Platform?
Anything?
How come McCain takes on board some things Bin Laden says but ignores others ? like the reasons why he/al qaida attack the US.
I like it how the neo-cons pick and choose what to believe from Bin ladens mouth.
If we give him a beat down there it will weaken his message everywhere else..
Interesting now foreign countries are looking to outsource jobs to the U.S.
Whooooood a Tunk it!
L.A. Confidential @ 30:
American trade agreements have created a strange game of corporate musical chairs.
If you are able, tune into Air America, Thom Hartmann. New info on Cheney’s trip to the Middle east.
Recommended.
I think Sun Tzu said something about who you should allow to pick the battlefield, and if memory serves it very much was NOT your enemy.
L.A. Confidential @ 27:
Each candidate has their own ideas, but both are agreed on one thing; leaving Iraq.
So What, nany nany doo doo!
hillary isn’t going to leave iraq.
Bin Laden and the Al Queda jihadists beat the USSR in Afghanistan by forcing them into a long and expensive occupation. This was a substantial cause behind the fall of the USSR. Now they have us in a long and expensive occupation. If you don’t think they see parallels here and aren’t trying to beat us by dragging us into a fight we will not be able to afford for a generation then you are blind.
Bin Laden only killed 3000 americans.
BushCo has already killed 4000 in Iraq and squandered $2,000,000,000,000.
Doesn’t it sound like Bin Laden persuaded them to do a lot more damage than he ever could?
You can bet he’s wanting McCain to be the next president!
McSame/OBL ‘08! They’ll “root” out those evil doers…
AgentX @ 34:
Thats what they said when they took the Senate.
So like, what they waiting for. The earth to stop spinning?
ShouldBeWorking @ 33:
Other wisdom from Sun Tzu:
“When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men’s weapons will grow dull and their ardor will be damped. If you lay siege to a town, you will exhaust your strength.
“Again, if the campaign is protracted, the resources of the State will not be equal to the strain.
“Now, when your weapons are dulled, your ardor damped, your strength exhausted and your treasure spent, other chieftains will spring up to take advantage of your extremity. Then no man, however wise, will be able to avert the consequences that must ensue.”
“There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare.”
Michael @ 37:
They ain’t stupid, that’s for damn sure.
L.A. Confidential @ 40:
I love comments like that… it makes me wonder… why hasn’t victory came as quick?
It’s not like we can just pick up and leave… If we leave too quickly, the situation between the Shias and Sunnis would dissolve into a prolonged regional conflict that would draw in Syria, Lebanon, Iran and Sudia Arabia. That’ll be a bigger mess than we could contend with.
Michael @ 37:
And I thought it was Reagan that caused the fall of the USSR. (what a joke)
Yes, we are going broke. And these boneheads are going to vote for McCain if Hillary is not nominated. They would rather have 4 more years of war and 4000 more lives, and trillions of dollars waisted, and a majority right wing Supreme Court than vote for a black man because of snippets from his preacher. IDIOTS
YourMom @ 38:
mom?
anyhoo…
just a slight correction:
Bin Laden only killed 3000 americans.
BushCo has already killed 4000 american troops, 1,193,480 civilians and an unknown number of contractors/mercenaries in Iraq
liberalHUSSEINmoderation @ 42:
The great irony of it all: We helped and armed the Taliban (which later splintered off Al Qaeda) in Afghanistan.
the Three Stooges were smarter than these three. How can we have such morons in charge of our country? Why won’t congress do a damn thing to stop this slaughter?
You know, I think we have been had?
McCain will likely get a boost from Bin Laden’s endorsment…..Patreus I’d watch out….McCain may dump you and get Bin Laden to help us fight the real enemy….you know…..Al-Qaeda in Iran.
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Osama’s dead! I suppose then that Petreaus and McCain are using their spiritual guides to speak with him?
commie @ 36:
I didn’t know she was over there.
L.A. Confidential @ 49:
source?
Cheney: ‘So? They Volunteered….’
Exactly how politicians destroyed their national armys. All volunteer armies in 1914 fought in the first wave of European battles , drafted later the young and strong next came to be pulverized into the many battlefields. The armies were firstly professional soldiers, their deaths by 1918