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Old 07-14-2008, 10:30 PM
ajmccarrell ajmccarrell is offline
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Originally Posted by strandinthewind View Post
Um - did I refer to you in that post? I said "Maybe" you were one of the ones, which implied asking for clarification

As for McCain, I believe you are incorrect. McCain voted to authorize W to use force in Iraq? Then, when campaigning for W to get reelected, the "greatest critic" who claimed the war would "fail" stated praised W's leadership and stated:

“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]

“I think the initial phases of it were so spectacularly successful that it took us all by surprise.” [CBS, 10/31/04]

“I do think that progress is being made in a lot of Iraq. Overall, I think a year from now, we will have made a fair amount of progress if we stay the course. If I thought we weren’t making progress, I’d be despondent.” [The Hill, 12/8/05]
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McCain can't have it both ways

On edit - perhaps you were stating McCain would have marched on to Bagdad in the first Gulf War. If so, so would I. But, that hardly negates his cheerleading for W's invasion of Iraq in 2003, though he double talked being against it soon thereafter and then was for it as evidenced in the above quotes.
I think, as many of us did back between 2003 and 2005, that things would be much different. As early as 2005, McCain started criticising the way the war was being handled. You can be for the initial war, but against the way it was handled afterwards. I don't see the inconsistency, unless you are not allowing for things not turning outas originally thought. McCain pushed for the surge and it worked. He butted heads with Rumsfeld a lot and eventually won out.
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