McCain says Obama should visit Iraq

[Roon]

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Republican John McCain on Monday sharply criticized Democratic rival Barack Obama for not having been to Iraq since 2006, and said they should visit the war zone together.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080527/D90TL9T01.html

[still_one]

1. I have a better idea, lets bring our soldiers back, and have the politicians

that sent them to fight and die in a war based on a lie, take their place

[Cha]

18. There ya go.. There wouldn't be deaths and a War On Iraq

Zone if Obama had his way.

Your answer is good and Obama should tell him something in kind.

[anonymous171]

2. Does he get a 100 troop escort (complete with 4 black hawk helicopters) to escort him as well.

[atufal1c]

11. Didn't McCain say he was walking around Iraq in some cutoff shorts and a pair of flip flops?

He said that he didn't even need security, right?

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[KSinTX]

27. Stop it!!

Thank god it's after midnight or you'd have been the third keyboard of the day :spray:

[DJ13]

4. Nothing says assassination like going into a war zone

Hey John, you first.

And this time dont wear a flak jacket, or have two blocks cleared around you so you could take a fake photo shoot shopping trip for the cameras.

[truedelphi]

5. You summed it up nicely using just nine words.

[ladjf]

6. McCain should mind his own business.

[BlooInBloo]

7. That sure sounds like a set-up.

[whatchamacallit]

8. McCain should visit the gerontologist

Old fool.

[panader0]

9. I'll bet he'd be welcomed. Iraqi people know about this presidential race

I can foresee crowds bigger than Portland.......

[goclark]

10. The soldiers would love Obama ~ but he should not go with McCain.

[atufal1c]

12. On the heels of Hillary's comments, this is just hysterical! NT.

I think McCain is just making a little jokey joke.

[jillan]

13. And he should. If he wants to be our commander in chief, he needs to see for his own eyes

what the hell is going on there.

[DearAbby]

17. How about ENDING THE WAR

And bringing those troops home...does he need to go over there to do that?

[jillan]

19. Hell yes - he needs to go there first hand and talk to the people over there

to figure out a plan.

Or he could just wait for Petreaus and Crocker to come back and tell us more bs :crazy:

[Hippo_Tron]

22. He went in 2006

[hulka38]

14. Barack, this is how we fucked up this country and ruined our military.

Take notes.

[grantcart]

15. I have a better idea - let them both visit Iran together

[ruby slippers]

16. Has McCain visited Walter Reed yet?

[Swamp Rat]

20. President Barack Obama should visit Iraq.

He can lead the troops home.

[ecstatic]

21. Fuck that! McCain and Hillary voted for Dubya's war and they should go

I wouldn't go if I were him.

[arewenotdemo]

23. Fuck you, Grampa. It's YOUR war. Take sweet Lindsey and Liebermann with you.

Oh. I forgot to include the Goddess of Peace, as well.

[AZ Criminal JD]

24. All three of them have been there many times

Obama is a sissy who has never even been on a military base to date.

[cali]

neither of my Senators has been or will go to Iraq

they both say it's a completely phony ass political trip.

[KSinTX]

28. You mean like this?

CAMP ARIFJAN, Kuwait (Jan. 7, 2006) - Senator Barack Obama listens to a soldier voice his concerns Jan. 7 during a dinner at Camp Arifjan's Zone 6 dining facility. Flanking the senator are Chief Warrant Officer 3 Bruce Mavis of Pleasant Plains, Ill., Lt. Col. Richard Zierath, originally of South Beloit, Ill., but now from Madison, Wis., and Spc. Debralee Crankshaw of Belleville, Ill.

[AZ Criminal JD]

31. Kuwait? LOL

[KSinTX]

34. *never even been on a military base to date* ROFL

Did I miss the "except Kuwait" part of your assertion?

[AZ Criminal JD]

37. I was talking about military bases in the U.S.

Kuwait is the safest country in the Middle East.

[KSinTX]

42. Oh, sorry. The land mines around Ft. Bragg are staggering. Got it

[AZ Criminal JD]

43. Ft. Bragg? Where the hell is that reference coming from?

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

25. Obama should point out...

...that the last time McCain visited Iraq he got a bunch of fucking children killed with his goddamn photo op.

[Alexander]

26. The two of them in kevlar will make McCain look really bad.

I hope Obama accepts his offer.

[BlueStater]

29. Good idea!

He could also make an ass out of himself by wearing a bulletproof vest while trying to convince the American people that walking through Iraq is like walking through your own neighborhood.

[Leopolds Ghost]

30. Your sig pic is eerily appropriate.

[Ganja Ninja]

32. Are we having a primary in Iraq?

Did Iraq become an American state recently? Why should anyone go to Iraq if they don't want to?

If you love Iraq so much Senator McCain why don't you move there?

[AZ Criminal JD]

39. Iraq has 140,000 American voters.

That's a lot more than most of the western state caucuses that Obama was in love with.

[weezy2736]

44. It's worth 0 electoral votes.

Unless it gets statehood in 3 months...

[AtomicKitten]

33. McCain is clearly running on empty.

[JimGinPA]

35. McCain Should Visit A Proctologist...

And have Lieberman's nose removed.

[wowimthere]

36. And I say don't go anywhere with a warmongering Neo-Con even if he

says, "My Friends".

[Elspeth]

38. Actually, this isn't a bad idea.

Going to Iraq now and taking real stock of it can only prove McCain wrong.

[AllentownJake]

40. I think McCain should go to the airforce base in Jersey

where we bring home the dead in cargo crates instead of flag draped coffins so nobody knows that there are bodies coming home.

[EmilyAnne]

41. So he can lie about how safe it is while being escorted by a personal military and shrouded in full

body armor?