John McCain says if he had been president there might not have been an Iraq War

[eridani]

I'll just bet!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/18/1314902/-John-McCain-says-if-he-had-been-president-there-might-not-have-been-an-Iraq-War

If presented with that same evidence today, I would vote the same way,” McCain said of his vote to deploy troops in the country. “I respected and trusted the Secretary of State, Colin Powell. But it’s obvious now, in retrospect, that Saddam Hussein – although he had used weapons of mass destruction – did not have the inventory that we seem to have evidence of. Which now looking back on it, with the benefit of hindsight, (the evidence) was very flimsy.”

It was flimsy with the benefit of sight-sight, too. There were plenty of voices perfectly able to point out the flimsiness of the evidence at the time, it's just that they were called pacifists and naive and unAmerican for pointing that out. Coming to this conclusion a decade later is being a bit slow on the draw, old sport.

If he had been president, McCain said, “I think I would have challenged the evidence with greater scrutiny. I think that with my background with the military and knowledge of national security with these issues that I hope that I would have been able to see through the evidence that was presented at the time.”

Horsecrap. You had the same background in the military and "knowledge" of national security when you were pushing for the war in the Senate, and you thought the evidence presented was just peachy. You were one of the 100 people in the country most able to challenge the evidence; you didn't.

This appears to be one of those things that ambitious and narcissistic people tell themselves to feel better. Oh, I'm much smarter than the last guy on the job, which was also me. Now let's send more and better arms to the rebels in Syria, who are really swell guys we can count on.

[Wolf Frankula]

1. John McCain Says

Shit doesn't stink. He's never seen a war he hasn't whooped for. And as for him being President, if getting shot down qualifies you to be President, Snoopy would be the most qualified president ever.

Give it up Prince John.

Wolf

[RoverSuswade]

2. Bullshit

Sarah Palin would have dug up his old gun from Vietnam and shoved it up while screaming "DRAFT EVERY 18YEAROLD AND SEND THEIR ASSES TO IRAN - NOW!"

[no_hypocrisy]

3. McCain would have been blowing the bugle for battle the first chance he'd have.

Which country is irrelevant.

[TheKentuckian]

4. Well, our capacity for yet another front on John McInsane's War on Anything

may have not been logistically plausible with our hands full with Canada and Mexico over here and troops in Spain, all over South America, the Eastern Block, Iran, and Belgium (because they surely would do something to raise his ire, if just being too quiet). Iraq would have had to wait and then would have been pushed back for the big war with Russia.

He just might not have been able to squeeze Iraq in with just two terms.

[deminks]

5. "Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb ba bomb, bomb Iraaan..."

Just like Dubya, bomb first and ask questions later.

[hobbit709]

6. He evidently learned nothing from his stay in Hanoi.

[Robbins]

7. Total Bullcrap

Mccain would have gone even quicker than Bush.

This is just BS.It's just crazy MSM keeps putting him on all the cable and sunday shows.

He is just so bitter that the black guy beat his racist ass.

[bermudat]

8. That's a damn lie.