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 McCain Resorts to Scare Tactics and SmearsPosted on Apr 11, 2007John McCain characterized antiwar Democrats as shortsighted political opportunists Wednesday during a speech at the Virginia Military Institute in which he repeatedly invoked the specter of “another 9/11.” With unimpressive fundraising and disappointing polling, the senator has made Iraq his signature issue in an effort to appeal to Republican primary voters.
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By cann4ing, April 12, 2007 at 8:20 am Link to this comment
Re comment #63464 by Jeff Badura. Fortunately for the rest of us, ignorant neocons are a minute minority of America’s electorate.
Report thisBy Jeff Badura, April 11, 2007 at 9:16 pm Link to this comment
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For my part, I would rather lose a campaign than a war. -John McCain 4/11/07 !!
Question- would a modern Dem ever say such ??? has a Dem ever said such, in the last 40 yrs ??
Ladies and Gentleman, the 44th President of these United States of America, his Honor John McCain !!
Illgramsaticus Knee O’Kaun
Report thisBy vet240, April 11, 2007 at 7:41 pm Link to this comment
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First we covertly funded, armed and trained The Bin Ladens and the Afghanis to fight the Communist threats.
Then America demanded larger amounts of Heroin which drove the Afghanis to produce more and more.
The Taliban with their backs to the wall saw the Western threat and moved to remove all vestiges of Western influence from their country. Of course they went too far. Their support of Bin Laden proved to be their undoing. We attack Afghanistan install a “Democracy” and what is the result? The Poppy crops are thriving bigger than ever and Afghanistan is back in the dark ages of War Lords and outlaws.
Iraq, having suffered the remorseless wrath of the Western nations lead by America is now faced with utter chaos. Many of them would welcome Hussein back, even though they would still be suffering from the deprivation of those sanctions which only harm the commoners in any country.
Our invasion has proven to be the biggest foreign policy disaster in our history. It has made us appear arrogant, stupid and self-serving to the world. But the greatest disaster is the fact that in invading Iraq we have shown the rest of the world how to resist a major power.
Now McCain like bu$h, has the gall to state that after getting us into this absolute mess we must stay the course and try to save our credibility. Then he does what the bu$h people has done, he falls back on his assumption that we can be controlled through fear.
I saw one of his campaign people on TV this evening who referred to McCains combat experience as grounds for accepting his point of view. McCain was a fighter pilot, not a war tactician or a statesman.
Sorry McCain we’re not buying it. You, like many of your ilk would do or say anything for the power, wouldn’t you.
Report thisBy jeffrey, April 11, 2007 at 7:09 pm Link to this comment
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oh and by the way I would register onto truthdig But I’m not so sure Bush’s gestapo wouldn’t some how find out who I am ,I’ve said enough already
Report thisBy jeffrey, April 11, 2007 at 7:03 pm Link to this comment
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he’s obviously over his head ,,the Question is why does he want to be president? does he think he can make things better? I believe this man is only more of the same,,of what we have right now! and thats not good
Report thisBy Quy Tran, April 11, 2007 at 6:12 pm Link to this comment
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John McCain tries to be War President the Second but he’s only War President I’s boots. Sorry for the history of his family !
Report thisBy cann4ing, April 11, 2007 at 5:37 pm Link to this comment
In his zeal to become “War President II,” McCain resorts to the tactics of fear, labeling the Iraqi resistance as terrorists, and stating, “We Americans are their primary enemy, and we Americans are their ultimate target.”
Hello! We invaded their country, stole their oil, forced Iraqis to vote for a constitution most had never seen—a document, which was revised at the 11th hour by the U.S. Ambassador and a handful of Iraqi puppets so as to lock in the Bremer edicts that privatized Iraq’s economy, placing it in the hands of multi-national corporations who, having no obligation to hire Iraqis, flew in cheap labor from South Asia, leaving up to 70% of the Iraqi population unemployed!
McCain bemoans that Americans are their “primary enemy” and their “ultimate target.” Who else would you expect them to target, Mr. McCain? We are illegally occupying their country. We have destroyed their homes, killed, captured or tortured members of their families, and stolen their dignity as a sovereign people!
McCain is doing what all imperialist do, labeling anyone who resists the imperial adventure as a “terrorist.” No doubt in our own Revolution, the British perceived the Minute Men who had picked off their troops from hidden places as “terrorists.” The Nazis labeled the French Resistance as “terrorists,” a resistance that was answered by brutal repression—the same tactic the Bush regime visited upon Iraq as it turned Falluja into a 21st Century Guernica.
Imagine, if you can, a coalition of nations powerful enough that it invades ours, does all these things we have done in Iraq, but claims it was doing so only to “liberate us” and to rid the world of a dangerous menace, George W. Bush. How many of you would actually cooperate with the occupying powers in the name of creating a “stable government?” How many would see such cooperation as an act of treason? How many would take up arms to resist the occupation? How many who resisted such an occupation would regard themselves as a terrorist?
In the end, the question of who is or is not a terrorist is simply a question of one’s point of view.
Report thisBy Steve Hammons, April 11, 2007 at 5:21 pm Link to this comment
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As the Baker-Hamilton commission indicated, diplomacy and other “soft power” methods should be employed in Iraq ... not more and more “hard power” troops, bullets and bombs.
Not only does McCain seem to be living in the past, still haunted by US “defeat” in Vietnam, he does not seem to be open to new perspectives about resolving these very difficult challenges such as we face in Iraq.
And he won’t admit that Vietnam and Iraq were both tragic misadventures created by corrupt politicians and war profiteers.
McCain brings a Vietnam-era mentality to the situation when what we need is futuristic thinking and state-of-the art soft power methods.
If he wants to consult our history for tactics and resources, the story of the WWII US Army Military Intelligence Service (MIS) in the Pacific is worth looking at.
For more on this, see:
“Unconventional Human Intelligence Support: Navy SEALs report”
PopulistAmerica.com
January 7, 2007
http://www.populistamerica.com/unconventional_human_intelligence_support
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“Eastwood, Spielberg: One More Iwo Jima Film”
PopulistAmerica.com
April 4, 2007
http://www.populistamerica.com/eastwood_spielberg_one_more_iwo_jima_film
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