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Originally Posted by troung
January 17, 2008
McCain has been more wrong than most
Posted January 17th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
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McCain on CNN on Sept. 24, 2002: “I believe that the success will be fairly easy.”
McCain on CNN on Sept. 29, 2002: “We’re not going to get into house-to-house fighting in Baghdad. We may have to take out buildings, but we’re not going to have a bloodletting of trading American bodies for Iraqi bodies.”
McCain on MSNBC on Jan. 22, 2003: “We will win this conflict. We will win it easily.”
McCain on NBC on March 20, 2003: “I believe, Katie, that the Iraqi people will greet us as liberators.” |
He was completely correct on all these accounts. The cost we paid was small compared major combat operations in past conflicts other than GWI. We did not get into house to house fighting in Baghdad, and the Iraqis did greet the US as liberators.
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McCain on ABC on Apr. 9, 2003: “It’s clear that the end is very much in sight.”
McCain on MSNBC on Apr. 23, 2003: “There’s not a history of clashes that are violent between Sunnis and Shias. So I think they can probably get along.”
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He was also right on both accounts. The end of the first phase was in sight. There was no history of violent conflict between the two before Saddam and violent conflict did not flare up until Al Qaeda strikes a year (iirc) later.
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McCain on ABC on Dec. 14, 2003: “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.”
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Now they are just taking him out of context. What was he referring to?
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McCain on ABC on Mar. 7, 2004: “I’m confident we’re on the right course.”
McCain to The Hill on Dec. 8, 2005: “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.”
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We were seeing progress in some parts. Unfortunately they were not at the centers of gravity. He was trying to shore up shaky support.
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And finally, McCain said all we had to do was give Bush’s so-called “surge” a chance, and we’d finally see political reconciliation in Iraq. Strike three.
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Political reconciliation has been taking place at the grassroots level and political accommodation is occurring, for now, between the different political parties outside of official channels. The problem is with the Iraqi government. However, it is by no mean the dominant political force in Iraq at the moment, so we can say that the degree of reconciliation is mixed, tenuous, and dynamic.
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McCain has been “less wrong than most”? If he’s been wrong every step of the way, how is it even possible to be more wrong than McCain?
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Unfortunately this kind of selective memory, distortions of the facts and plain stupidity has characterized liberal attitudes toward the war.
