FLASHBACK: McCain: I would have started Iraq war regardless of WMD

[Segami]

Way back in January 2008, John McCain confirmed in an interview with Tim Russert that if he were President, he would have still gone to war with Iraq regardless if WMD existed in Iraq or not. This is an angry small man who feels a compulsive need to strike out and start a war with another country just to project his military toughness for future historians. Sounds like a political Napoleon-complex, you know, the small penis, big car types.


" When Russert asked him if, like Bush, McCain would have supported the Iraq war even if no weapons of mass destruction were believed present in Iraq, McCain seemed to dismiss the question as irrelevant.

"If frogs had wings ... we can talk about lots of hypotheticals," he said. "The point is if we had done it right, you and I wouldn't even be discussing it now."

This video is from NBC's Meet the Press, broadcast January 6, 2008


Excerpts from transcript:


MR. RUSSERT: Looking back at the beginning of the war back in March of 2003 --

SEN. McCAIN: Yes.

MR. RUSSERT: If you had known then, if the intelligence came out and said, "We know that Saddam Hussein does not have biological or chemical or a nuclear program," would you still have voted to authorize the war?

SEN. McCAIN: Well, obviously, given information that we have changes your decision-making process. But Saddam Hussein was still a threat. The sanctions were breaking down. There was a multibillion dollar Oil for Food scandal in the United Nations. Every day, American airplanes were being shot at. Saddam Hussein had used and required weapons of mass destruction in the past, and there was no doubt there was going to be in the future. The problem in Iraq, my friend, was not whether we went in or not, it's the way it was mishandled after the initial invasion.

MR. RUSSERT: But, Senator, it's an important question -- President Bush has said, "Even if I knew he did not have biological, chemical, or a nuclear program, I still would go into Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein." Would you have?

SEN. McCAIN: Yes, but the point is, that if we had done it right, it's been well chronicled in many books, you and I wouldn't even be discussing that now-- the mishandling after the war


http://rawstory.com/news/2007/McCain_I_would_have_started_Iraq_0106.html

[and-justice-for-all]

1. But there is NO legitiment reason for invading/occupying Iraq..

They still would have to LIE in order to do so. Warnogering pigs.

[Segami]

2. I'm waiting to see him ' flip-flop' on this position taken or try to ' spin his response '

as ' misspoken ' and NOT what he intended on saying. The first debate with Obama will be a telling sizing encounter and I believe we'll see the REAL McCain dancing on a trampoline with his responses.

[Thrill]

3. Enough of the 'My Friends' shit

[Segami]

4. LOL....Bang on!.....you hit that one out of the park

[JPZenger]

5. k and r nt

[Coexist]

6. knr

[KSinTX]

7. The truth is the word and it never ceases

to shock and awe me. In all of the primary mess, it seems I missed this gem. What a travesty.

I guess it's well worth the 4,083 lives so long as it's well chronicled in many books. Just another romp in Wonderland.