McCain: Osama bin Laden and I agree on Iraq

[tekisui]

Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) told supporters at a town hall meeting that he, top US commander in Iraq Gen. David Petraeus, and terror mastermind Osama bin Laden all agree about the Iraq war.

"As you probably know, an audiotape ... was released where bin Laden said, and I have to quote bin Laden: 'The nearest field of jihad today to support our people in Palestine ... is the Iraqi field.' He urged Palestinians and people of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Saudi Arabia to 'help in support of their mujahideen brothers in Iraq which is the greatest opportunity and the biggest task.'"

McCain followed that with, "For the first time, I have seen Osama bin Laden and Gen. Petraeus in agreement, and that is, the central battleground in the battle against al-Qaeda is in Iraq today! That's what bin Laden is saying, and that's what Gen. Petraeus is saying, and that's what I'm saying, my friends."

The Arizona senator took a swipe at his fall election rivals using a condescending political slur often employed by President George W. Bush: "My Democrat opponents, who want to pull out of Iraq, refuse to understand what's being said and what's happening, and that is, the central battleground is Iraq in this struggle against radical Islamic extremism. And my friends, we're succeeding."

link w/video: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/McCain_uses_Bin_Laden_quote_as_0324.html

[rocktivity]

1. Go, Johnny, go, go! Keep on doddering!

And you thought that Hillary was making campaign commercials for YOU!

:headbang:
rocknation

[MadMaddie]

2. The difference is that if a Democratic candidate would have

made the same statement they would have been in the media 24/7.

McCain gets a free pass....again.

[PaDem]

3. The Obama campaign can make hay with this...........

and I hope they do. Obama can say that he didn't support this war, which resulted in the opening of this problem in Iraq.

[frogcycle]

5. really? he can say THAT?

I did not KNOW that!

[theoldman]

4. And after Iraq it will be somewhere else.

It will be where ever we go because they will be everywhere.