This recently posted video of John McCain on the Letterman Show 18 October 2001, roughly a month after 9/11, suggests McCain knew about the Bush plan to take on Iraq. In addition to his cracks about killing Bin Laden by Halloween and intimidating "these people into going back to selling camels," he also floats the line that the anthrax used in the U.S. mail attacks "may have come from Iraq" and says the Bush administration was determined to hold the countries from which the terrorists came responsible. In retrospect, it's clear that McCain, our experience candidate, got pretty much everything wrong and was selling Bush's disastrous foreign policy, as he still is today. Bin Laden is not only alive but wandering about his Waziristan redoubt. We are losing more lives in Afghanistan than we are in Iraq. We never held Saudi Arabia responsible for anything. Watch the video below and see if you wish John McCain to guide the fate of the U.S. for the next four or eight years.
LETTERMAN: How are things going in Afghanistan now?
MCCAIN: I think we're doing fine .... I think we'll do fine. The second phase -- if I could just make one, very quickly -- the second phase is Iraq. There is some indication, and I don't have the conclusions, but some of this anthrax may -- and I emphasize may -- have come from Iraq.LETTERMAN: Oh is that right?
MCCAIN: If that should be the case, that's when some tough decisions are gonna have to be made.
Will McCain advocate bombing the US because the antrax came from a government facility? I'm sure he would never consider that Iran might not be responsible for anything untoward that happened in it's locallity, so he ought to hold America to the same standards.
... bomb, bomb, bomb ... bomb -- America?
Total Coalition casualties for Afghanistan is under a thousand, counts for Iraq is five times as high. Do you mean that this month the casualties are higher in Afghanistan or perhaps that the ratio is higher in Afghanistan? I’m just seeking clarification.
In other words - being a bully helps in getting what you want from the other kids - ruling by intimidation and fear.
Wow, these guys were just ITCHING to go in Iraq.
Was The Maverick Misled About Iraq?
This advances the questions one of our citizen journalists could ask McCain -- and I predict it would lead to a huge scoop.
Who are these people that are seriously considering to put this man in charge? Can we get them some treatments?
More War, Less jobs. and More of the Same.
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American Revolutionaries, where are you???????????????
And all the Fudge Haus, Sturgis, or cheese aisle moments in the world aren't going to change it.
Keep it up and soon you'll discover that McCain wasn't for Bush's war. It was the other way around. McCain was one of the original warmongers and Bush came on board after 9/11.
Look it up.
Prophetic words, nothing succeeded in catching OBL.
Thanks for nothing, Mr McCain.
McCain's other national security plan for dealing with terrorist and catching bin Laden.
"I know how to deal with terrorists who attacked us on 9/11- I'll catch bin Laden, I know how to catch bin Laden, I'll hunt him to the gates of hell."
No one ever calls McCain on this kind of mindless blather. McCain's buddies in the main stream media just stand by and say oh that's some tough talk, oh what a tough guy McCain and is; this type of rhetoric is pathetic and worthless as national security policy.
Reporters should be calling McCain out for explaing how he would catch bin Laden and ask McCain if he has shared his plan with our national security agencies and the CIA. If not isn't it quite unpatriotic to have a failed safe plan to catch bin Laden but not have it implemented.
McCain is addlepated.
The people who put Bush in the White House twice were wrong and their judgement should be questioned. Let's not let them make a third mistake at our expense.
Although some may not agree with Reverend Wright, especially the "God Damn America", his sermon had to do with our foreign policies.
Then you have McCain telling the world "the next phase is Iraq" and saying "the anthrax may have come from Iraq". Since 9/11 we have learned through several investigations that Iraq had absolutely NOTHING to do with 9/11 and the anthrax was sent from within the United States from one of the most secure facilities in our country. So who is the most dangerous? a preacher that speaks about our foreign policies that have often resulted in consequences, or a presidential candidate touting LIES that have resulted in over 4,000 American deaths in a war that was completely unnecessary, not to mention the countless deaths of Iraqis who we still do not have a confirmed number of exactly how many have died during the invasion and occupation. And did I mention "bomb, bomb, bomb, Iran"......
Enough said.
Anthrax Scare