This is like an instant replay from our March 24th post. “McCain’s Iraq victory speech interrupted by reports of violence in Iraq“
MSNBC cuts away as McCain is delivering his usual pro-war Iraq speech and as he talks about leadership—MSNBC breaks into a news report that says at least 4 mortars were shot into Baghdad’s green zone.
McCAIN: Faced with the prospect of defeat, we had two fundamental choices. We could retreat from Iraq and accept the horrible consequences of our defeat. Or we could change strategies and try to turn things around. It was, I believe, a critical moment in our nation’s history, and a time of testing for our nation’s political leadership.
In the year that has passed, our nation showed its strength –
MSNBC: And speaking of Iraq, we do have breaking news out of Iraq, where at least four mortars have been fired into the heavily-fortified Green Zone today. It’s unclear at this time if there are casualties or any major damage. Now the news comes just a day after five U.S. soldiers were killed in Iraq. Two, again, inside that Green Zone…read on
You see a pattern here, don’t you? I wonder if the insurgents will ultimately stage a huge assault on the green zone as the Maliki/Sadr situation worsens.
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Oh that pesky truth! How dare it keep showing its head when Grampa talks!
Oh the irony . . .
Dye his hair blond, grow a goatee and call him Custer.
I don’t know if there is a pattern, but the irony of this event was pretty bizarre. Here’s John, the surge is working, McCain talking about the conditions in Iraq and his speech is interrupted with news that seems to prove, at least for now, that the surge is not working so very well.
McCain would interpret it this way:
My friends obviously this is no coincidence. These extremists watch our election very closely and they want a democrat elected and the US to surrender. We will never surrender on my watch and thats why extremists time their attacks in Iraq with my speeches, to make me look bad.
pissed off patricia @ 4:
Which in Bizarro world (nee, Neo-con land) means that we should continue the SURRRRRRRGE, since obviously they’re not playing fair over there.
Yeah, but the Republican message has already been tailored to cover this. McCain announced last month that the insurgents would probably try to escalate violence to get the Democrats elected. So, he’s (cleverly) covered both ways.
If violence goes down, he can say “I was right. The surge worked.”
If violence goes up, he can say “I was right. The insurgents are escalating violence to get the Democrats elected.”
Nice two step. I wish we could think of things like that sometimes.
they are that sophisticated to pull off their version of tet thru these mortar attacks. othing like having a representative say things are well in Iraq, during a mortar strike.
The surge is working: support the troops.
Is it summer rerun time already?
I guess John McCain will let General Petraeus explain all this to us. I would not want to be in Petraeus’ shoes tomorrow. How the hell do you say things are better just when they aren’t?
Only Bush is more fucked wrong than this psychotic geezer. Give Johnny a chance, he’ll make us miss Dubyah.
7 Pericles Says: Yeah, but the Republican message has already been tailored to cover this. McCain announced last month that the insurgents would probably try to escalate violence to get the Democrats elected. So, he’s (cleverly) covered both ways.
If violence goes down, he can say “I was right. The surge worked.”
If violence goes up, he can say “I was right. The insurgents are escalating violence to get the Democrats elected.”
Nice two step. I wish we could think of things like that sometimes.
Not two-step it’s…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mNDHTfdn1A
{{{5 galmud Says}}}: McCain would interpret it this way:
My friends obviously this is no coincidence. These extremists watch our election very closely…
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Like most of us, they too have probably stopped watching. They are confused about why American news is all about Barack Obama bowling, and “angry black preachers”, or the Clinton’s tax returns. They wonder if Americans know there is a war in Iraq (and Afghanistan). They too, have concluded: No, they don’t.
Heck of a surge!
*omg…. gimmee a new flack jacket, I peed all over this one!*
100 more years!
*but I’ve only got this weekend to shop in this market with my battallion of soldier protectors*
USA!
*what lost billions of dollars?*
USA!
*what no-bid contracts?*
USA!
*Habaeus Whatsisis?*
USA!
*what rape rooms?*
Left&Left @ 12:
He may well be worse than bush, but I gotta tell ya, I will never miss bush. In the future, assuming there is one, any time I will think of bush I will become angrier and angrier.
That’s so surreal it practically seems staged. If I was writing a screenplay on the Iraq war and I thought of a scene where the president was talking about how the war is being won, only to be interrupted by news of the enemy’s attack on our stronghold, I’d probably ditch the idea as too obvious and ironic.
well how could i vote for anyone else? he will obviously be such a good leader what with his war knowledge and how he can lead us to victory in iraq, and then iran and who knows where else.
great ad placement too! no intelligence with bill stein. celebrate ignorance!! woohoo!!
i want to go far away, but they will affect me there too.
JR @ 2:
Yes, isn’t it sooo very Ironic?
Just as he talks the damned TRUTH has to rear it’s ugly head.
If it wasn’t for the fact that our young men are getting killed and maimed it could almost be a tragic comedy, but there is nothing funny about missing limbs and young men dieing.
Maybe McCain should meet with these veterans…
Veterans marched towards White House to demand the arrest of George Bush and Dick Cheney.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEFvWj15las
A foreign news reporter covered it…
but not a single mention of this event went out via main stream media.
every time this dumb old man visits iraq and talks about how great things are, all hell breaks loose. suggestion: lock this dumb motherfucker in a rubber room and duct tape his fucking mouth.
{{{11 pissed off patricia Says}}}: I guess John McCain will let General Petraeus explain all this to us… How the hell do you say things are better just when they aren’t?
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Um… you bin watchin’ the news?? It rolls of their tongues like butta.
More of Grandpa McSame.
This is off-topic, but I have to say it:
Roooock… Chaaaaaalk…
Jaaaaaay Haaaaaawk…
Kaaaaaaaaaaay
Yoooooooooooou.
Go Kansas!
Maybe the evil-doers get cable.
good luck k.u. i’ll be watching.
Whats the problem with all you people. The war is over and we won!! Didn’t you get the press release? Also, iraq is going to be paying us back for the 1000 billion$ we spent on fixing their country and making them all happy.
It’s all good.
Oops. You gotta tell them lies faster McStraightTalker. You’re not keeping up.
Great, he’s Bagdad Bob! Wasn’t that the name we gave the Iraq defense minister who was saying no bombs here then had to run from the studio? I want to see those videos again, and morph them into Lieberman, McC and GW saying “surge working” with video of Green Zone mortar fire in the background!
But all is well…the Starbucks in the Green Zone is still open!!
Their in the last throes, again.
Just a fashion note here. John McCain should not wear a baseball cap, ever! Some guys can wear them and some can’t…..he can’t. He looks like an old grandpa who let the grandkids dress him or something. Baseball caps with long sleeved shirts are a fashion felony.
I was having flashbacks of Baghdad Bob with that clip, actually…
Yeah you’re right. It’s just that no matter how bad things get, the Bush crew comes up with something worse. McCain, who increasingly appears to be at least as dangerous and stupid, is just another Republican relay runner(walker) in their race to send us all to Hell.
You see a pattern here, don’t you? I wonder if the insurgents will ultimately stage a huge assault on the green zone as the Maliki/Sadr situation worsens.”
There not insurgents. We are now fighting the people we went to free from Saddam Hussein.
Sadr’s people are the ones who suffered the most under Saddam.
We are now helping Maliki who has closer ties to Iran than Sadr does.
At the same time we are arming and training the Shite’s.
The same people we were supposed to remove from power.
This is complete madness.
Maliki has to attack because he’s going to lose the upcoming elections.
Can’t wait to hear the GOP explain how Iraq will be led by President Sadr right before the Nov. Election here.
Once elected he’s going to kick us out.
Get your popcorn ready.
Bringing Democracy and Big Macs to the world is hard work.
Sorry, #33 was a reply to POP@16.
True democracy cannot be achieved until the Iraqi people have the freedom to choose McDonalds OR Burger King.
He is saying that all hell might or will break loose if we leave. Maybe that is being reinforced by the news break-ins. It shows what is happening with us there so perhaps the theory is that if we leave it will get worse. On the other hand, if all hell is going to break out if we are there or if we are gone, why wait around for it to happen.
I heard on tv that people support McCain because they don’t want to “lose” this war, they want to “win”. Are the American people that self centered? They would rather claim a “win” and let the dying continue forever? How many deaths constitute a win?
McCain: We can retreat in defeat of stay the course with somebody else’s children, not mine.
Left&Left @ 33:
Who would have ever guessed they could find a hand basket big enough to fit us all in?
Ruthless People @ 39:
One of his kids is in this war and another may be about to go.
I see helicopters evacuating the last Americans out of the Green Zone off the roof of one of Saddam’s palaces.
The Dems needs to start talking about this Mad Max Inflation running rampant.
Mad Max Oil and Gas Companys
Mad Max Food Inflation
And despite a very large inventory of vacant properties throughout the US, rents continue to climb.
McCain will find a way to spin this into a victory and the MSM will go along with it no matter the facts. Greenspan just came out in support of McCain today. This coming for a supposed economic czar supporting someone who has not the smallest clue how to deal with the economy. And do watch the spin from the MSM, especially Andrea Mitchell, since she is married to Greenspan. The Villagers and the GOP all party hearty together and they are not about to turn on their own.
McCain’s speeches are enabling the terrorists.
i see a pattern ! the iraqi insurgents get msnbc, too ^^ so why not time their attacks for the targeted recipients …
We need to STOP talking and start DEMANDING.
Later
24 anncoulterisevil.com Says: Maybe the evil-doers get cable.
To watch FAUX News?
Think it is a way for MSNBC to get ratings? They have everything to gain by doing the right thing and reporting facts. Money. They are number 3 out of 3, and they have found that they make big bread with Keith, and now probably with Dan. Got rid of the idiot boy, replaced him with another idiot. But look at the guests. They are the same tired crew for many shows. Their celebrity joe was put in the morning. Is that because his audience can’t stay up late?
it’s about money folks. this is a big corporation that makes a lot of war toys for their real living. they don’t give a shit about crushing dumb john as long as they know he can’t win anyway. Do you think they expect an election in November or are just hedging their bet? Perhaps they believe they will get the good interviews if they treat what they see as the democratic scum, “nice”, just in case?
MSM is going to give McCain more coverage to support his views as the election comes closer. The democratic candidates are going to be framed as surrender candidates. Yes, I do see a pattern and it is the fascists controlling the MSM.
Ron @ 50:
McCain has already said, regarding the Democratic candidate, I will never surrender. They will.
McCain: Don’t believe your lying eyes, listen to me.
All the repuke horses and all the repuke men couldn’t put Iraq back together again.
They are also lying about Iran. North Korea has nukes but no oil. Iran doesn’t have a nuke but has lots of oil. Get the picture yet dummys?
Bottom Line: Republicans are liars and cannot be trusted.
This whole “I don’t want to lose” attitude…puleeease….that’s the SPIN. Do you think that right wing radio callers are random? Do you think they are not plants? Do you think the interviewees on the MSM are not plants?
Good lord, NOTHING has been learned over the last 8 years…NOTHING…about how Rovian politics works.
No wonder they make saps of us. We do it to ourselves.
“I do not believe that anyone should make promises as a candidate for president that they cannot keep if elec