McCain acknowledged in this "60 Minutes" interview that he had been accompanied by heavy security during his tripBig deal! He'd be covered by heavy security if he were at the Republican National Convention too.
The ONLY time that this RINO opens his pie-hole is when he has to change feet.
Phuque him.
So sue him for being an optomist. It could be worse or course. He is a high ranking senator so of course he will be guarded heavily. Maybe he is is trying to sell the new Iraq to people.
This is the continuous spinning / lying BS coming out the agenda driven MSM. McCain is not faltering in his nod for the GOP nomination because of his support for the WOT/Iraq (In fact Giuliani is an even bigger supporter!...yet this isn't mentioned)....McCain is faltering because of his non-conservative actions over the last several years OUTSIDE of the WOT/IRaq...
So what did he mis-speak about? I didn’t get it.
McCain acknowledged in this "60 Minutes" interview that he had been accompanied by heavy security during his tripBig deal! He'd be covered by heavy security if he were at the Republican National Convention too.
I will never be a McPain supporter but me thinks this is more FUD from 60 Minuets...
Hey Senator!! Shut up!!!
Now I know why I stopped watching "60 Minutes" back when Ronald Reagan was President.
'...I can understand why (the Army) would provide me with that security, but I can tell you that if it had been two months ago and I'd asked to do it, they would have said, 'Under no circumstances whatsoever,"' he said. "I view that as a sign of progress." McCain also acknowledged many Americans do not agree with his position on the war. "I believe we can succeed and I believe that the consequences of failure are catastrophic," he said.
The MSM, and especially Reuters, wants this war lost and lost now! Everyone, including the jihadists are playing a public relations game with sound bites taking the place of bullets.
McCain believes things are better and only indicates he mispoke as to the degree.
Misspoke is a sign of weakness. We do not need a weak Republican president.
That was a pretty quick flip flop. Must have gotting some polling numbers from the Blue States.
It’s 60 minutes. I’d trust McCain over it.
Someone at Reuters should ask a Kurdish politician how safe it was to walk around Baghdad in the '90s.Just a few excerpts from the 1997 report of Amnesty International, an avowed Bush hating organization. The same can be found concerning other years. Particularly their report claiming the sanctions were killing hundreds of thousands of people.
It sure is a shame that President Bush and the United State went into Iraq in 2003 and screwed up this utopia.
At least 100 members of opposition groups were extra judicially executed and hundreds arrested when government forces entered Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq. Hundreds of people were executed during the year. Hundreds of suspected government opponents, including possible prisoners of conscience, were reportedly detained without charge or trial. Tens of thousands arrested in previous years remained held. Trial and pre-trial procedures for political detainees fell short of international standards. Torture and ill-treatment of detainees and prisoners remained widespread. The fate of thousands of people who had "disappeared" in previous years remained unknown. Human rights abuses continued in areas of Iraqi Kurdistan. They included arbitrary arrests, incommunicado detention of suspected political opponents and executions.
During these clashes human rights abuses were committed by all sides and an estimated 70,000 people fled to neighboring Iran.
In January, the government announced that the judicial punishments of amputation and branding (see Amnesty International Report 1995) had ceased and would be abolished by law. In March, President Saddam Hussein reportedly ordered an end to the practice of ear amputation for army desertion and the release of hundreds of army deserters and draft evaders. In August, the Revolutionary Command Council (rcc), Iraq's highest executive body, reportedly issued Decree 81, abolishing the judicial punishments of ear amputation and branding for army desertion.
In March, the U.N. Commission on Human Rights adopted a resolution condemning "the massive and extremely grave violations of human rights for which the Government of Iraq is fully responsible" and extended for a further year the mandate of the un Special Rapporteur on Iraq.
Hundreds of people were executed during the year. At least 96 members of the opposition Iraqi National Congress (inc) and four members of the Iraqi National Turkmen Party were executed by government forces following their capture in Qoshtapa, near Arbil, in August. Among the victims were Lieutenant Ra'ad 'Umar al-Khalidi and Fahd Muhammad Sultan. Hundreds of suspected government opponents, including possible prisoners of conscience, were also arrested in Arbil. They included members of the inc and the Iraqi Communist Party, suspected members of Turkman and Islamist parties and other non-Kurdish political opponents. They were said to be detained in government-controlled areas but their fate and whereabouts remained unknown. At least 12 Iraqi army officers were reportedly executed for objecting to orders to intervene in the take-over of Arbil. They included Brigadier General Adham al-'Alwani, Major Jihad 'Abd al-'Aziz al-'Alwani and Major Faisal 'Abd al-Hamid al-'Issawi.
Several political prisoners were said to have been executed, among them Duraid Samir Jihad al-Khayali and Jihad Samir Jihad al-Khayali, executed in May in connection with anti-government demonstrations in al-Ramadi province in 1995 (see Amnesty International Report 1996). They were reportedly subjected to torture prior to execution.
More than 120 army officers believed to be connected to the opposition Iraqi National Accord, were executed following an alleged coup attempt against President Saddam Hussain in June. Among those executed were several high-ranking officers, including Major-General 'Abd Mutlaq al-Jibburi, Major Fawzi Karim al-Hamdani and Colonel Riyadh Talib Jassem. Up to 300 had been arrested but the fate and whereabouts of those detained remained unknown.
In February, Lieutenant-General Hussain Kamel al-Majid and his brother, Lieutenant-Colonel Saddam Kamel, both sons-in-law of President Saddam Hussein, who had fled to Jordan in August 1995 (see Amnesty International Report 1996), were killed within days of having returned to Iraq after reportedly being pardoned. Their father, a brother and three other relatives were also killed. The government announced that the killings constituted an act of revenge by other members of the al-Majid family, but it was widely believed that the killings had been carried out with the acquiescence of the President. There was no investigation into the killings and no one was brought to justice.
Hundreds of suspected government opponents, including possible prisoners of conscience, were arrested during the year and remained held without charge or trial. Relatives of detainees were arrested on the basis of family links. In some cases relatives of suspected political opponents who fled abroad were said to be under house arrest. About 2,000 people arrested in 1995 following demonstrations in al-Ramadi province (see Amnesty International Report 1996) continued to be held without charge or trial, as were tens of thousands more arrested in previous years. Following an assassination attempt in December on 'Uday Saddam Hussain, the President's eldest son, hundreds of arrests were reportedly carried out in Baghdad and other cities. The fate and whereabouts of those arrested remained unknown.
Physical and psychological torture and ill-treatment of detainees and prisoners remained widespread. Methods of torture reported included beatings, electric shocks to the tongue and genitals, suspension from a rotating fan, burning the skin using heated metal implements or sulphuric acid, and rape. Some prisoners were said to have been flogged before their release.
As I said before; It sure is a shame that President Bush and the United State went into Iraq in 2003 and screwed up this utopia.
BRIAN MONTOPOLI: It seems that some reporters, including yourself and CNN’s Michael Ware, have really taken umbrage at John McCain’s recent comments, essentially saying that there are a lot of neighborhoods where you can walk around relatively safely. Is it fair to say that that really sort of bothered reporters?
ALLEN PIZZEY: Yes. It’s disgraceful for a man seeking highest office, I think, to talk utter rubbish. And that is utter rubbish. It’s electoral propaganda. It is simply not true. No one in his right mind who has been to Baghdad believes that story. Now, McCain and some other senators were there on Sunday, and they claimed, “Oh, we walked around for a whole hour…and we drove in from the airport. Gosh, aren’t we great, we drove in from the airport.” Excuse me, Mr. McCain, you drove in in a large convoy of heavily armed vehicles. The last one had a sign on it saying “Keep back 100 yards. Deadly force authorized.” Every single car that they approached or passed pulled over and stopped, because that’s the way it is. When one of those security details goes by, every ordinary person gets the hell out of the way, in case they get shot. If he did walk around that market, and I didn’t see him do it, and he didn’t announce he was going to do it, you can bet your life there were an awful lot of soldiers deployed to make sure that nobody came near that place. He’s talking rubbish. And he should not get away with it.
CBS’s Pizzey Calls McCain’s Bright Take on Iraq ‘Disgraceful,’ Dismisses Bias Charges
http://newsbusters.org/node/11848
Seems the Senator may not have the gumption to stand up and fight these guys.
And more time closer to home at the dog track in Arizona.