Posted on 07/22/2008 2:35:08 PM PDT by AmericanMade1776
McCain's New Line On Obama 22 Jul 2008 04:04 pm
When we adopted the surge, we were losing the war in Iraq, and I stood up and said I would rather lose a campaign than lose a war. Apparently Sen. Obama, who does not understand what's happening in Iraq or fails to acknowledge the success in Iraq, would rather lose a war than lose a campaign.
Folks on the press bus say that the italicized sentence is new to McCain's oeuvre. So far today, he's used it twice.
(Excerpt) Read more at marcambinder.theatlantic.com ...
man, I don’t know.. I really think he needs to take the gloves off.. just my opinion.
McCain is well on his way to accomplishing just that even with the "war" won by Bush and Petraeus, so I guess he has that going for him. Liberally Lame, like his campaign.
The only way that George W. Bush won the war was by finally taking McCain's advice in regards to the Surge.
Back in 2006, when BOTH George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld were against the Surge and when Petraus was not even in command yet, McCain had already been championing the Surge for quite a while.
If Bush had not accepted McCain long held position on the Surge by the end of 2006, the war might be lost by now and Petraus would have been either following Rumsfeld's failed policies or would have been canned for advocating McCain's policies.
Show me a link before the 2006 elections where George W. Bush championed the Surge.
Show me a link before the 2006 elections where General Petraeus publicly advocated the Surge.
Show me a link dating back to November 2006 that documents that ANYBODY in Congress or the White House was pushing for the Surge except for John McCain, Cheney and a few low level staffers.
Here is how things REALLY were back at the end of 2006:
Back in November of 2006, when John McCain was pushing for the Surge and when his position had the support of only 18% in public opinion polls, the Republican Congress was screaming like a stuck pig looking for political cover, Rumsfeld was rejecting the Surge and Bush was backing up Rumsfeld.
In fact, Rumsfeld had previously fired commanders such as General Shinseki for disagreeing with Rumsfeld's notion that the war could be won on the cheap because Rumsfeld said so.
As they say, "Victory has a thousand fathers" so, now that the Surge the McCain was pushing for back in 2006 is producing victory, the McCain haters forget the time when it was only McCain that was championing the Surge when George W. Bush was against it.
Back in November of 2006 and before that, McCain's Surge idea was as toxic as the Black Plague to military and political careers. Just ask General Shinseki.
McCain bump. Good line.
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