John McCain, a Foreign Policy Expert? Really?
Posted by Matt Ortega on April 3, 2008 at 02:21 PM
John McCain likes to style himself as a foreign policy expert on the campaign trail but this is a self-professed and unabashed supporter of George W. Bush's failed policies that is offering three words to the American people: Four. More. Years.
Take, for instance, John McCain's persistent gaffe: claiming that al-Qaeda in Iraq, a Sunni organization, is receiving training from the Shia-majority Iran. John McCain still can't get his story straight.
In January, John McCain claimed that Basra was "not a problem." Last week, Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia militia leader that John McCain can't figure out, launched a full-scale assault on Iraqi national forces in Basra and left the Arizona senator "surprised."
An "expert" who claimed the war would be "easy" and that the U.S. would not be caught in "house-to-house fighting" in Baghdad in late 2002 as he helped sell the war to the American public.
With the war dragging on into its sixth year, John McCain continues the dog-and-pony show that he was out in front all along the way.
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McCain said the overall mission of U.S. national defense and security must examined.
"To defend ourselves," he said, in a reference to the threat from Islamic extremists, "we must do everything better and smarter than we did before."
"We must rethink, renew and rebuild the structure and mission of our military; the capabilities of our intelligence and law enforcement agencies; the purposes of our alliances, the reach and scope of our diplomacy," he said.
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The deal is, if we dont have an economy, we cant defend ourselves. How do you defend yourself when you've shot yourself in the stomach and you've broken one of your arms? It doesnt help to have a gun.
Posted by Free on April 3, 2008 at 06:52 PM
The day McCain becomes President. He will bring change. He will dramatically bring one HUGE change. This change will be the only change that we will all see: REPLACING BUSH'S NAME WITH HIS.
Other than that, there's no other change, but the change of a name tag. So go ahead and vote for McCain if you like losing your jobs, high gas prices and spinning our wheels in the oil.
Posted by Free on April 3, 2008 at 06:56 PM
A Republican is a republican. We have had 7 years of Republicanomic. It's time for change.
Posted by Free on April 3, 2008 at 07:07 PM
The war? It's pretty sad. We fought with blood and our bank accounts for seven years, only to have the oil fields owned by Iran and Al Sadr whatever.
We have two options:
1) Pull out of Iraq and leave and support strikes to just stall Al Qaeda
2) Fight a full war and CRUSH the Mahdi army, eliminating the base (they dont love you today, they're not going to love you tomorrow) so might as well own Iraq. They'll kill you today, they'll kill you tomorrow. It doesnt matter. THe sooner you crush the base, the better off we'll all be.
There's not point of staying in Iraq if you DONT get rid of the resistance.
Stay and crush the enemy but if you're not going to do that, leave!!!!!!
Posted by Free on April 3, 2008 at 07:15 PM
If McCain doesn't know Iran is predominately Shiite and Al Queada is Sunni, I doubt he understands anything about NATO or the European Union.
Posted by Free on April 3, 2008 at 07:15 PM
The only problem is that al Sadr has more support than we do. If you kill him, he becomes a maryt. In the eyes of the Iraqis he will then gaim support from even his enemies as long as we stay there.
I don't understand their culture or religion. It's the same mistake Bush made and McCain is making.
Posted by SandyH on April 3, 2008 at 07:50 PM
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