Veterans Respond to McCain's "Obama Wants to Lose" Remark
This type of insulting nonsense will not go unnoticed or unchallenged by the Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who've fought in both McCain's war in Iraq, and in the other war in Afghanistan.
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This is not controversial history. It is history that anyone trying out for president must understand when there are 150,000 U.S. troops stationed in Iraq. It is an essential element to the story of the past two years.
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Here's Your Maverick
John McCain sure is a maverick, I'll give him that. In just a week, he's managed to alienate the Iraqi Prime Minister, the Iraqi people, the American people, and the veterans community.
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An American In Paris
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Example of being honourable.
There is someone that lives in your town that you think has lots of weapons in his basement.
You decide to protect the rest of the town by going in and killing him, raping his wife and then moving into his house.
Yeah, real honorable.
Care to advance that into a high-school level?
Doubt that he can.
I went to his site, checked out the photos. There is nothing news worthy in them. Just blood and guts published by a guy with an ax to grind.
But why ban it? Is there not an "ax to grind" in banning it?
It's telling that you consider the deaths of Americans not newsworthy.
Why should Americans not be shown the sacrifices made by our soldiers?
Such photos have been published in this country since the Civil War, when Matthew Brady and Alexander Gardiner showed the brutality of battle in photographs.
You're afraid of the blowback---just like your Fearful Leader.
Thank goodness Senator McPoop is leading the way ...
BLITZEN: So why do you think he said that 16 months is basically a pretty good timetable?
MCPOOP: He said it's a pretty good timetable based on conditions on the ground. I think it's a pretty good timetable, as we should -- or horizons for withdrawal. But they have to be based on conditions on the ground.
The horizon timetable of Sen. McPoop shows what leadership is about. Soon we won't have to worry about bags and boxes. What a maverick.
This administration Every Step Of The Way in Every Aspect has tried to Cover Up THE TRUTH.
Why should the soldiers death be any different?