LOL- McCain was FOR Iraq withdrawal before he was AGAINST it!

[npincus]

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

This would make a great Kerry ad parody for Dems! McCain in January 2005:





http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/28/mccain-strongly-rejected_n_99082.html

Three years before the Arizona Republican argued on the campaign trail that U.S. forces could be in Iraq for 100 years in the absence of violence, he decried the very concept of a long-term troop presence.

In fact, when asked specifically if he thought the U.S. military should set up shop in Iraq along the lines of what has been established in post-WWII Germany or Japan -- something McCain has repeatedly advocated during the campaign -- the senator offered nothing short of a categorical "no."

"I would hope that we could bring them all home," he said on MSNBC. "I would hope that we would probably leave some military advisers, as we have in other countries, to help them with their training and equipment and that kind of stuff."

Host Chris Matthews pressed McCain on the issue. "You've heard the ideological argument to keep U.S. forces in the Middle East. I've heard it from the hawks. They say, keep United States military presence in the Middle East, like we have with the 7th Fleet in Asia. We have the German...the South Korean component. Do you think we could get along without it?"

McCain held fast, rejecting the very policy he urges today. "I not only think we could get along without it, but I think one of our big problems has been the fact that many Iraqis resent American military presence," he responded. "And I don't pretend to know exactly Iraqi public opinion. But as soon as we can reduce our visibility as much as possible, the better I think it is going to be."

[lisa58]

1. This is going to be fun

[DrDan]

2. well - when he prefaced his comment with a

"But as soon as we can reduce our visibility as much as possible . . . " - he has his cover

[npincus]

3. his statements are enough- pulled out-of-context

and featured in ads played ad nauseum- they way THEY do to us- to inflict some damage.