Posted on 07/19/2014 10:25:52 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, made a surprising suggestion Thursday night: If he had been elected in 2000, there might not have been a war in Iraq.
The Vietnam veteran and former prisoner of war, who lost his race for the GOP nomination that year but went on to become his party’s nominee in 2008, made his comments in a far-reaching interview in CNN and National Journal’s “Politics On Tap” event, after this reporter asked him what would be different if he had won either in 2000 or 2008.
On 2008, McCain said “national security” would be different, and he delineated the many ways he would have done things differently from the victor, President Barack Obama. But when asked about 2000, McCain made the most surprising remarks. “You’ll find this surprising,” he said, “but I think I would’ve been more reluctant to commit American troops.”
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Neva happen, GI.
There was a REASON the primary voters did not flock to you in 2000, and it had nothing to do with warhawk or former prisoner status or anything like that. It went back to the “poor judgment” in the “Keating Five” case. While there was never a conviction of any of the Senators involved, still the tarnish was there, and being close personal friends with Charles Keating, who took down the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association of Irvine, California, proved to be an indelible blot.
McCain: Had I won in 2000, Iraq War might still have happened
These have exactly the same meaning...
I'm so tired of this soiled freak and his blow-hard 'old faithful' characteristics...
Tough, smart and a thoroughly decent man.
I wish I lived in a country that could elect such a man again.
had he won in 2000......America would now be speaking spanish almost exclusively!!
If Johnny had his way we’d all be speaking Arabic.
He is plum plain crazy. Nuff said.
How did CNN get an exclusive interview like McCain? (snark)
McCain is likely right. I would’ve preferred him to Obama, that is for sure.
FU McAmnesty, you worthless DemocRat.
Shame on him...
Too bad Bush didn’t ignore Clinton and the UN.
The winners from the US invasion of Iraq:
1) Iran. Saddam was their enemy. We toppled him and installed a shia gov’t led by longtime friends of Iran, and today Iraq is Iran’s closest ally.
2) China. The Iraq war cost the US more than $1 trillion. We didn’t have the money, with our debt already in the tens of trillions, so we borrowed from China - and printed dollars thru the federal reserve.
3) Islamic Christian-haters. With Saddam’s brutal, heavy hand removed, the Islamist he had repressed started running free across the country - with shias and sunnis killing each other, and jihadists from all factions ganging up against Iraqi’s Christians. Churches were destroyed and Christians were killed or driven out en masse.
By the way, I don’t remember John McCain opposing the invasion of Iraq, so I’m not sure what he’s saying now; doesn’t make sense - but that’s not unusual for him
“I would have preferred him to Obama”
But he’s talking about the difference between him and Bush - i.e., the 2000 election. He says he wouldn’t have done what Bush did, and invade Iraq.
Funny, why didn’t he say so at the time? I don’t remember him opposing Bush’’s invasion.
He voted for it twice.
We haven’t properly fought a war since WWII.
When you go to war you must be prepared to accept nothing but total victory. You don’t seek “hearts and minds.”
War is vicious, brutal and bloody business. You only go to war when you absolutely must. When you are forced to go to war you must execute war in such a way to secure complete victory as quickly as possible. Anything less increases suffering and is inhumane.
He sure wants to get troops involved now...all over the world! He wants troops in the Ukraine.
And we’d all be picking lettuce for $50 an hour.
Here’s a map of all the countries McCain wants to bomb:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/09/john-mccain-world-attack-map-syria
John McCain armed Kosovo Islamic terrorists
IMO - Had the Bush not taken out Iraq as he did, the Caliphate would now be fully established throughout the ME Saddam was a powerful enabler of the radical Islamic forces.
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