McCain Attended Zero Afghanistan Hearings In Last Two Years

[babylonsister]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/17/mccain-attended-zero-afgh_n_113452.html


McCain Attended Zero Afghanistan Hearings In Last Two Years

Huffington Post | July 17, 2008 06:30 PM


ABC News reports that McCain has attended zero of his Senate committee's six hearings on Afghanistan in the last two years:

The McCain campaign criticism of Sen. Barack Obama's hearing record on Capitol Hill led us to put the shoe on the other foot.


It turns out that presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain, has attended even fewer Afghanistan-related Senate hearings over the past two years than Obama's one. Which is a nice way of saying, McCain, R-Ariz., the top Republican on the Senate Armed Service Committee, has attended zero of his committee's six hearings on Afghanistan over the last two years...

...The findings are surprising given the fact that the McCain campaign loudly criticized Obama this week for failing to schedule any hearings on Afghanistan in the last year and a half. Obama chairs the European Affairs Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which has oversight of military operations in Afghanistan.


The American public believes the war in Afghanistan is far more essential to the war on terror than the war in Iraq: 51% believe the U.S. must win the war in Afghanistan to succeed in the war on terror, whereas only 34% feel the same about the Iraq war.

[NatBurner]

1. typical. some "commander in chief"

way to go, mr ultimate warrior

[NattPang]

2. He reminds me and more of Bush everyday.

[Fleshdancer]

3. has anyone else noticed that the Huffington post is where all the McCain news is coming from lately?

Do any of the major news organizations report on this guy at all??

Back to topic: A loved one was sent to Afghanistan three times since that war started. The very least McBush could do is sit through one damn committee to know what the hell is going on over there.

[babylonsister]

4. Bloggers rock. m$m, not even not so much, never.

The times these people have to return to the war zone are nuts; I read a few months ago about a man who was on his 5th tour, had 5 kids, and he died. Who is winning this?

[Imagevision]

5. Obama will update McCain on Afganistan when he returns...