McCain: I Know How to Capture Bin Laden
By Jon Perr Saturday Jul 26, 2008 11:00am
As developments on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan continue to undermine his campaign, Republican John McCain tried to play the Bin Laden card on Friday. Repeating his claim "I know how to win wars," McCain told CNN's Wolf Blitzer that "I know how" to capture Osama Bin Laden. Apparently, the McCain strategy, as he never tires of telling voters, is to follow Bin Laden to "the gates of hell."
Appearing on the Situation Room, John McCain suggested that his record on Iraq and expertise on the geography of the Iraq-Pakistan border region would allow him to succeed where George W. Bush failed in capturing the Al Qaeda chieftain:
"I'm not going to telegraph a lot of the things that I'm going to do because then it might compromise our ability to do so. But, look, I know the area, I have been there, I know wars, I know how to win wars, and I know how to improve our capabilities so that we will capture Osama bin Laden -- or put it this way, bring him to justice…We will do it, I know how to do it."
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No doubt, McCain hasn't been shy when it comes to explaining how he'll bag Bin Laden.
Over the course of the campaign, Senator McCain has repeated his pledge to hunt down Osama Bin Laden and follow him "to the gates of hell." For example, in May 2007, McCain described himself as the dog that'll hunt:
"We will do whatever is necessary. We will track him down. We will capture him. We will bring him to justice, and I will follow him to the gates of Hell."
Then in October, McCain told workers at a small weapons factory in New Hampshire:
"I will follow Osama Bin Laden to the gates of hell and I will shoot him with your products."
And in January, McCain reassured suspicious South Carolina voters as well, just in case they had missed his earlier promises on the point:
"My friends, I want to stand before you now and tell you that if I have to follow him to the gates of hell I will get Osama Bin Laden and I will bring him to justice. I will get him!"
In New Jersey last month, McCain pledged, like President Bush before him, that he would get Bin Laden, dead or alive:
"I will look you in the eye and promise you that I will get Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice." McCain said in response to a direct question from one of the 2,000 people in attendance at the college's Pemberton campus gym.
McCain said the key to ending the long search for bin Laden was to increase the number of human spies abroad.
"We need better human intelligence. We need people who can swim in the water," McCain said.
(McCain, of course, was speaking metaphorically. Referring not to aquatically proficient spies who would make their way overland to Waziristan after first swimming across the Indian Ocean, McCain was instead describing agents capable of seamlessly mixing in among the peoples of Afghanistan and Pakistan.)
Meanwhile, rumors continue to swirl that McCain will tap Mitt Romney as his running mate. Their shared commitment to get Bin Laden may have something to do with Romney's appeal to Mr. StraightTalk. After all, in May, Romney also made a promise when it comes to Osama Bin Laden. "He's going to pay," he said, "and he will die."
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He "knows" the area? ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!
McCain is a freak!!!
Give him a spear, a compass and send him on his way.
Barbarian!
What a sad, sad little man! Hopelessly confused and addled by age and by the torture he suffered at the hands of his enemy, and that he so whole-heartedly approves of now.
This is what bush would have been like if he had been campaigning while in his 70's - hopelessly addled and confused, but i his case, by drugs and alcohol.
Sure you do Johnny. Just like the dimwit Preznit does.
Ehhh, You can fool me once, but ehhh, ummm , uhhh, you cain't fool me agin.
“McCain: I Know How to Capture Bin Laden” Huh??? The guy's a US Senator !!!! If he knows how to get Bin Laden, then why has he kept it a secret from our military, CIA, etc. Oh, I get it; he'll only tell us if we let him be president. Look out ... here comes the BS Express!!
WTF. If he knew so much why didn't he tell Bush or the military about it.
More bull from McCrazy.
What wars has he known how to win?
Craig, we think alike; I am just 1 step slower.
cheers mate.
Care to share that valuable information with the Pentagon so they can capture him?
Or are you just letting an accused murderer run around free for your political advantage?
Or are you just full of shit?
McCain - A Legend in His Own Mind...
Mabe he only has to find out where Bin Laden is buried. The Pakistanis say he was murdered.
Che's Lounge @ 10:
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Number 3, like all polititians.
Che's Lounge @ 10:
I'm going with the last one there.
Unless that photo op with the cheese gave him an idea for a big trap.
Are they *still* trying to use this old bogeyman? C'MON.
Old McCain (no pun avoidable): I would rather lose a campaign than lose a war.
New McCain: I would rather win a campaign than capture a mass murdering war criminal.
Another Load Of CRAP.
Clean up in isle three next to the depends.
I think it's pretty funny how he does this kind of flowing shit act and keeps a straight face.
He knows how to win wars? Really? When? Where? As you say, maybe on the Iraq-Pakistan border, which is to say, in his sick demented imagination.
I know this is "off limits", but the one time he was in the situation he managed to get shot down and then made anti-American films for the enemy, and he still thinks that was a war we should have won, if not for the liberals and the Summer of Love.
As for another part of McCain's weird rhetoric, I just noticed that the shoes I just bought were made in Vietnam, a place now clamoring for your tourist dollar, so maybe the fact that we lost that war is not the geopolitical disaster the wingnuts and McCain made it out to be. Imagine if we had gotten out in 1964.
Annie @ 14:
HAHA ... Cheese ... Trap ... very funny.
This is great news. After Obama is elected he should invite McCain to share this wonderful information! I am sure that President Obama would be happy to give credit for Bin Laden's capture to McCain. Oh happy day!
"I know wars, I know how to win wars, ...."
This man is so whacked out. Seriously, what does he know about war? About winning wars? He spent his time in a prison camp during his generation's war. His "war strategy" didn't do so well at winning that one.
We don't need to worry about "winning" the one we're in now - we need to end it. The community of the world already thought we were losers from the very beginning of this farce - that's why so many of the other nations chose not to participate with us in the invasion and occupation of Iraq.
And, John, just in case you didn't get the memo - Osama bin Laden is Dead! You'll have to find/invent another bogey man to chase around the world and justify your obsession with endless war.
Oh Please pick The Mittster.
Whadda gift.
JS
He knows how to do it but he hasn't shared his super secret plan with the president for the past five years? So we will only find out how to do it if we make him president? He has said Obama would rather win the race than win the war. Seems he's getting dangerously close to proving the same thing about himself. Seems he would rather win the race than have Osama caught right now.
If McCain can bag Bin Laden?? Hahahahahaha! All McCain can do is flip flop and run negative ads. Check out this new one running here in Colorado as reported by Mike Allen from Politico.
"In a sign of new aggressiveness, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) went up Saturday night with an ad called "Troops,” criticizing Obama for the cancelled visit. The 30-second ad ran during NBC's "Saturday Night Live" in Denver. Colorado is one of this election's most important swing states. On Sunday it began airing in the Washington, D.C., area and in Harrisburg, Pa., another key swing state.
An announcer says: "Barack Obama never held a single Senate hearing on Afghanistan. He hadn't been to Iraq in years. He voted against funding our troops. And now, he made time to go to the gym, but cancelled a visit with wounded troops. Seems the Pentagon wouldn't allow him to bring cameras. John McCain is always there for our troops. McCain. Country first."
Then McCain says: "I'm John McCain and I approve this message."
Poor McBush. Just one fuck-up after the other.
1) First he played the Surge Card. "The surge is working! The surge worked! The surge was a success!"...over and over and over. Even the dumbest of voters then questioned why we're still there if the surge was such a resounding sucess (which McBush wasted no time in reminding us he "invented").
2) Then he played the War Hero Card. Only he fucked up by saying "I know how to win wars". Even the dumbest of voters then questioned which war exactly he had knew how to or had experience in winning. Vietnam War Hero? Sure. But we lost that one. Even the dumbest red state redneck can concede that one.
3) Now he's playing the Bin Laden Ass Kicking Card, promising to capture the man who's eluded us for nearly 7 years now. But all he's doing is playing right into Obama's hands, since Obama is the one calling for a stronger presence in Afghanistan and NOT Iraq.
And even the dumbest of voters have to wonder: If McBush invented the surge that was such an amazing sucess; so amazing that talking heads and pundits the world over repeat it over and over and over....
...How come he hasn't yet invented a plan to capture Bin Laden? Any reason he's waited till now to brag about his ability to capture but has yet to "invent" a way to do it?
McBush in a lot of ways reminds me of the prick kid at the beach who wouldn't let anybody help him build his giant sandcastle. As the tide rolled and obliterated the sandy monstrosity with one felt SWOOSH...it was enjoyable not only to watch the little brat cry and moan, but also to watch him try to salvage what was left of destroyed castle and protect from another waterly onslaught.
And that's McBush. The Obama Tide is coming for him...and it's inching closer to him everyday, and it's gonna wash him away..whether the fuck he likes it or not.
"Straight Double Talk" from the "Straight-Jacket Express" This guy is an unprincipled gasbag! My friends - My ass!!
Ron.j @ 13:
Where's the press of this, so used to this straight talk "Clinging to their gums" the cat's got their tongue?
Of course he can , he'll just cross over the Iraq Pakistan border from his secret hiding place he has had all along . It can't fail . He doesn't know the meaning of the word fail , no I mean it he doesn't know the meaning .
Now, just how many wars has Mclame won?
Imagine how different our politics could be if Wolfie and his ilk would show the balls to call McBush and all his cohorts, neocon and allegedly liberal, on this sort of BS.
Wolfie: "So have you shared this information with the President and the CIA? If yes, then why don't they act on your information? Because they are incompetent? Because they think you are crazy? If no, are you more interested in retaining a political advantage than you are in acting to remove a threat to the country?"
I know how to give a woman multiple, consciousness-enlarging, spirit-elevating, toe-curling orgasms. For obvious reasons, I'm not going to share it with you fellers at the risk of compromising my ability to do so. Ladies who wish to know the secret that only I have should email a recent photograph.
Anyone else think this smells like the ghost of Nixon? He had a secrete plan to get us out of Vietnam ... now old 'wet start' McCain's got a plan to capture Bin Laden. Being of a more conspiracy frame of mind, I wouldn't be surprised if his secrete plan involves dragging Osama's lifeless corpse out of the deep freeze.
aquarius2 @ 24:
But the weird thing is, in that ad where it talks about Obama going to the gym and about the not visiting the troops in the hospital, it shows Obama playing basketball with the troops in Iraq.
It is so frightening that 40% of the voters are willing to vote for this total freak.
Then why, as a senator and a Republican, hasn't he told the Bush administration how to capture bin Laden? Surely it would be in his best interest to make his party look good.
AP - Desperate to fend off John McCain's endorsement of his timetable for withdrawal for Iraq, Barack Obama today endorsed John MCain's secret plan to capture Osama Bin Laden.
Part of the cynic in me wishes Obama would really announce this just to see what the befuddled boys and girls on the Barbecue wagon would do.
Hmm...maybe I SHOULD vote for McKeating. At least it would get him outta Arizona! ;P
aquarius2 @ 24:
The GOPers have the advantage that McCain won't remember whether he approved of the message or not.
Bahahhahahahah!!!
An old ex-POW who flew over primitive, defenseless Vietnam, and dropped bombs on women and children and got shot down by a peasant is an expert on war?
A guy who can't tell which middle-east country shares a border Pakistan is an expert on War?
and finally, a blood crazed @sshole whose amazing tact and recent strategy for the middle east boiled down to : Bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran... is an expert on war?
Wow! I feel so much safer!!
Let's go you old fart, show us what you got!!
And make sure to call your wife a c*nt trollop one more time for good measure!
hr @ 8:
Exactly!
Sounds like he has a secret plan to get us out of Viet Raq! hmmmm.....
He sounds like a bad used car salesman.
Love the horribly forced smile and cardboard cut-out body movements.
eric @ 29:
Picky, picky. He did not say he had won wars. Just know's how to.
Also knows how to get shot down both over Hanoi and on the deck of a carrier.
Used to know Green Bay Packer offensive line.
Maybe inside his tired mind, McCain thinks he can say these sorts of things because he really believes them. Maybe he thinks he has won wars and that his super secret plan would work to capture Bin Laden. Jesus, that's more frightening than thinking he's trying to bs us.
McCain knows how to get Osama but he won't talk. He should be elected to Gitmo.
What! You mean Bush did not tell McCain that bin laden is already dead?
Well MSM , don't bother asking McCain about that missing $30 billion in Iraq, obviously he is out of the loop on the Cheney obfuscation express.
Compare these two stories:
LA Times: U.S. war on terrorism loses ground in Pakistan
Reuters: US wants counterterror funds for Pakistan F-16s
Yup .. Republicans are *real* serious about that "war on terror" ..
So long as it means big profits for the Military Industrial Complex ..
Oh Grandpa, you silly old sot.
Nevada Blue @ 40:
My thought exactly.
Oh, the irony. The war McCain has experience in so he "knows how to win wars": he was captured and held prisoner for much of it. And his country lost. How does that qualify him to win wars?
Spit take! And I thought that "knows the area" was the punchline.
But, seriously, If McSpin knows how to get OBL, is he not committing treason by keeping his plan secret from the CIA, U.S. military and the Bush Administration?
And PLEEEEASE pick Mitt! We will see the Religious Right fracture at the seams if McSpin picks "one of them there Mormans(sic)". as his veep.
Shhh...be vewy vewy quiet...I'm hunting tewwowists...
Please, Senator McGrumpuscrankypants - enlighten us as to which wars you've already won as to substantiate your comment:
I know wars, I know how to win wars
A POW of the Vietnamese in a war we lost.
Yep, I trust this guy.
I think someone needs a running mate.
Mick @ 44:
Won't talk? WON'T TALK?"
After application of CIA enhanced iterrogation techniques by CNN torture experts, John McCain revealed his secret plan to capture Osama Bin Laden would require deploying the Pittsburgh Steeler defensive line to the Iraq-Pakistan border.
Why hasn't he told Bush?
Herr DannyBoy @ 38:
Fuckin A right, buddy!
My kids and I haven't slept this soundly in YEARS!
Who's ready for that 3 AM call?
Yeahh...you know it! JOHN WAYNE MCCAIN!
Maher said it best: When the call comes into the White House at 3 AM, McBush will be awake, because he'll be trying to piss.
McCain: First, we need lots of cheese....
Sen. Obama flew in last night after his busy week last week and right now he's at the Uninty Covention speaking live, via CNN. When does this guy rest?
McCain probably makes these claims about war and such around his campaign and no one quizzes him on it because they don't want to make him mad. The questioners at the debates better not play down to him. They need to treat both candidates equally.
Craig @ 6:
There you go -- one of a huge number of self-undercutting statements McCain has made. Hopefully, people can figure this out on their own, because the press sure isn't gonna help.
Shades of John Kerry's 'Secret plan to get us out of Iraq'.
The secret is still safe with him.
Wouldn't it have been patriotic of him to give his insights to the CIA, Army Intelligence, or his friend, the Prez? It could have saved a lot of lives and money.
He must be thinking of Dick Nixon's "secret plan" to end the war in Vietnam.
I would think that the first rule to winning a War is not to let yourself be captured!
pete @ 50:
I dunno about that one. Selecting Romney might give him Utah and might actually put him ahead in his own state. Just sayin'. The Mormons are all very excited here because their "prophesies" state that an LDS theocracy will be established when "the Constitution is hanging by a thread."
The book "One Nation under Gods" by Richard Abanes should prove to be an eye-opener for anybody who thinks that the LDS "church" is just another religion.
Marcus Aurelius @ 58:
And some fudge too. He's already revealed half his plan.
50 pete
Mormons, I used to be one.
In my mid to late teens, when they got to Kolob, I was like WTF?
And when I got within a couple of years to entering the mission field, I started checking my own belief, in the only church I knew, and realized I couldn't convince others if I couldn't convince myself. And I already had half-formed plans on entering the military.
While I was an enlistee in the Air Force I started drifting toward Witchery.
And everything's been hunky-dory since then
(Yeah...right.)
Marcus Aurelius @ 58:
Melted Velveeta will clog those caves on Bora Bora, then we launch the cheese puffs.
Larry Craig will guard the Fudge Haus, while Phil and Mrs. Phil (Lindsay) Graham sneak in under the wheels of the bus.
Nicky @ 55:
Sorry, but I think that you meant to say, "the Pakistan/Pennsylvania border....
Wolfie: "Well, we know since 9/11 that Pres.Bush has been doing the best he can..."
Is the guy with the beard the crazy one, or the one who says he knows how to "win wars"?
pissed off patricia @ 65:
Fondue WOOOooooooooooo Whooooooooooooooo!
Got Crackers?
what a desperate moron, pathetic. The republican party are so washed up.
maybe sarah palin will find bin laden sipping a mujito in florida with the bush family. oooh did i just say that. then she gonna bring him in with her hockey stick, oh gosh.
Layne @ 57:
Just imagine a candidate for president saying he will follow someone to the gates of hell. Isn't that proof enough that he's nuts? Who the fu*k talks like that?
odanny @ 69:
I caught that too.
Herr DannyBoy @ 38:
Not that much can be expected from CNN's food news editor (who has risen to his present position because he'll work for peanuts, and CNN is particularly cheap even amongst tv nets) - but I've yet to see anyone mention McCain's experience only includes crashing a few airplanes, getting shot down, and failing to escape after being taken prisoner. Which is, to be sure, that his history is that of a loser, not a winner, and there is nothing at all heroic about it. Nor does it include anything, at all, that would permit him to say, "I know how to win wars." We lost Viet Nam, and have lost every war since, other than those few where our 'opponent' did not fight back (ala the Persian Gulf war). As well, if McCain is so damned smart that he can capture Osama bin Laden, one wonders why he has not already helped Bush do that. The fact that he has not does not speak well about his patriotism.
Melted velveeta might be okay; just as long as we don't escalate to liederkranz or limburger...
Mick @ 68:
Or perhaps that porous border between Swiss Cheeserlandia and Shiaslovakia! Osammy never thought John would know to look there.
Oh unamerican princess
It was John Kerry with the secret plan to get us out of Iraq, but hopefully a new approach, more multilaterally less unilaterally.
Why do you hate America, princess?
mudshark @ 70:
Crackers? In the Whitehouse.
preznit mcChortle. Does he have to chortle with every response? Is he subliminally saying, "hey you dumb ass...this is what...", or is he so nervous that he knows his audience is going to go "you don't know what the f*ck your are talking about, you crazy old twisted coot"?
Honestly, this is a pathetic excuse for a candidate. Although it is imperative the Democratic ticket wins this time and demonstrates to the WORLD if this country is totally screwed or not, I wish....lightly in the back of my mind...that the neocon/fascist party could have come up with somebody...anybody...that might have had a little credibility with having most of his marbles, but is just the same selfish, greedy, chicken hawk piece of shit as the majority of the party. This bimbo is laughable.
mudshark @ 70:
That's it! That's it! McCain plans to fondue Osama. Well that secret cat in out of the bag. Someone call bush and clue him in. Got Sterno?
You don't know how to do shit, McInsane. Are you freaking kidding me? Is this guy for real?
Alright, so this moron wants us to believe that the only reason we haven't won the war in Afghanistan and captured bin Laden is because he wasn't the president already?
This is bull shit on an unprecedented scale! What nonsense. And all the while he's spouting this garbage, he has a ridiculous smile on his face. Like it's funny. The war is funny. Capturing a CIA operative, Osama bin Laden, is funny. It's all just a joke to him.
This is just more evidence that McInsane, the senile, needs to be headed for a retirement home, not the White House.
Mick @ 75:
Explodings puffs of Limbaugh cheese laden with crushed oxycotin will do the trick.
Cindy will continue the medication treatment while flying him off for rendition in the Miss Budweiser/Brussel.
Hulk @ 79:
It's beyond laughable. They should pass out shovels before making us watch this big, chocolate, disgusting smelling horse shit.
how does being a pow for 5 yrs teach you how to win wars?
McCain sees how people react to that big warm smile Sen. Obama flashes so he thinks if he smiles a lot people will react to him the same way.
Mclame also knows what the Iraqis want. Even though they have plainly said they want us out of their country, mclame has 'been there numerous times and he knows what they want' even if they don't know it. What a putz! Who's writing his stuff? Even Rove is smarter than that. Sounds like some grade schooler who has never been away from home. Does mclame have a grandkid about 8 years old who is writing his press releases?
Mclame and Romney should get on really well. Remember at the debates when Romney accused mclame of lying? (and he was) And mclame sat there with that s**t eating grin on his face. I'll never forget it. But maybe they will kiss and make up. Forgive and forget as it were. lol
Wolfie: "Sen. McCain, you've stated you will balance the budget after winning both wars, and do it all while cutting taxes and dribbling a basketball between your legs. Is it true that you challenged Senator Obama to a game of one on one?"
And how about the "enormity" of your crimes, McInsane? And of course you can't tell us really what you would do because you either have no plan or your plan is so evil, if we knew it we would gather weapons and ammo, go to your house and hang your old ass.
Sandi @ 34:
He'd rather win a campaign then prevent another terrorist attack on the homeland.