TYT: John McCain's Enormous Hypocrisy on the War

[ihavenobias]

John McCain's Enormous Hypocrisy on the War
By Cenk Uygur

http://news.aol.com/newsbloggers/category/young-turks/

If you think John McCain is a straight shooter on the war, wait till you get a load of the video we found from his speeches on the Senate floor. He now claims that withdrawal is unacceptable and that we must stay in Iraq until it is a viable nation that can police itself. He now says he doesn't care if we stay in Iraq a hundred years.

As you will see below this is exactly the opposite of what he argued in Somalia and Haiti when we had a Democratic president. He demanded withdrawal not in an orderly fashion from those countries, but immediately -- damn the consequences. If you don't believe me, watch for yourself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfsMzFiZOtQ&eurl

These politicians drive me crazy. They're all flip-floppers. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/republicans-vote-to-cut-o_b_72853.html Their position on any given issue is directly related to who the president is. If he's in your party, you support him no matter how wrong he is and what kind of a disastrous war he's gotten us into. If he's in the opposite party, you demand withdrawal as soon as possible. How do they get up there and make speeches that are diametrically opposed to what they said before and do it with a straight face?

Now John McCain isn't the only one guilty of this but unlike most other politicians he gets a free-ride in the press. They portray him as a maverick and a straight talker when he is nothing of the sort. Look at the video above, if he was a Democrat he would be called the biggest flip-flopper of all time.

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[CherylK]

1. Very interesting! n/t

[navarth]

2. McCain's a flip flopper??? Naaaaaahhhhh

He was totally consistent with his positions on the religious nuts, the 'agents of intolerance', wasn't he?

He was totally consistent with his position on election reform, wasn't he??

Flip flopper? naaaahhhh

[ihavenobias]

5. You forgot that only *Democrats* can be flip-floppers. Repubs that do that are "mavericks" n/t

[navarth]

6. More proof of the Evil Liberal Media.

Curse those evil doers. Didya see Olbermann tonight? I can't believe this clown conflating Obama and Tiger Woods. What a wierd mother fucker.

[OhioChick]

3. Thanks for posting...

It's about time we started going after McCain. I haven't watched too much of he MSM lately, but when I have, they seem to be giving him a free ride. He needs to be called on all of this.

K&R
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