McCain: The Surge "Began the Anbar Awakening"

[wiferachel]

ITS OK obama i AGREE WITH MCAIN TO

The ironic thing is that most of obamas followers are more experienced to be president than he is. Sara Palin is more experienced than Bill Clinton was. Bill was governor but a small state and small population and no foreign policy experience or military experience.

message from california

[DivineMoments]

McCain Will Win!

[cancerusnugget]

@DivineMoments you lose. =D

[thepunisher1783]

this country is on a downward spiral. we have so many liars like obama and people below me. anybody who knows history knows that war comes before peace. btw the surge is working and people just dont want to accept the truth. 1. oil in iraq 2. terrorist in iraq 3. strategic position in the middle east. that makes since to stay there. and also dont even say shit like we pay insurgents. your a dumass if you think the government could get away with something like that.

[dragenzX]

fact: the surge played a small part in the reasons for lower levels of violence. Iraq Gov. grew a pair... we were just their along for the ride

fact: there are over a dozen different energy sources more viable then oil.

fact: Rome fell victim to her own power because the politicians thought they could control the middle east. She never recovered and died as the only other super power to arise besides the U.S.You do not beat assassins with an army, you beat them with better assassins.

[choppedandchanneled]

there is nobody to vote for once again! More of the same old shit. I do respect McCains service in the military and what he went thru though. I think the republican party is letting him dangle in the wind. They had no respect for him before, remember?

[marniespeaks]

Google - US bribe insurgents to fight Al-Qaeda

AMERICAN forces are paying Sunni insurgents hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash to switch sides and help them to defeat Al-Qaeda in Iraq.

That's how the so called "surge' won

Bush has reduced the Military to cops and security guards.

Hey America tired of the lies yet?

[gkhongo]

hey marnies, do you want the US military to be there forever? the iraqis have to eventually take control of the situation. what is wrong with you? by the way, 11 years passed between Lexington/Concord and the adoption of the US Consitution. Today, in much more difficult times, its been half that time so far. I think we're doing one helluva job, esp. since Rumsfeld botched the crap for the first few years.

[marniespeaks]

Did you listen to What McCain said?

At worse is he is lying, at best he is telling half-truths.

Didn't you bother to watch the video before your comment?

[gkhongo]

haha! if he IS lying, he learned it from mr. "i change my position every second and sometimes hold both positions" obama, and i responded to your comment. your comment had NOTHING to do with what mccain said, it just said google some crap... looks like my well-informed vote will be cancelled once again...

[marniespeaks]

why vote for either crook? unless you're a crook.

and what I said if you read the article, which is very informative and revealing in it's title - US bribe insurgents to fight Al-Qaeda

AMERICAN forces are paying Sunni insurgents hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash to switch sides and help them to defeat Al-Qaeda in Iraq.

but you're as clueless as McCain when it comes to who or what is fighting in this illegal war.

[navigatro]

Someone please give mccain a bed. What is so stratigic or so big a deal about "THE SURGE". Small kids know that the more troops you put on the ground, the greater your presence in iraq and possibly more effec you have. So, it is not about the stupid surge, but about what you sacrifice by doing it - thousands of US lives!! Was the surge a success??? - Stop pushing obama to answer stupid, childish questions please!!!!

[JRV95]

Guys, if you want to do something about it, dont bitch on youtube and vote...

[YouBob12]

OMG He is talking in circles, right before they cut him off he was going to being his loop.

I rather hear my crazy grandpa talk to me about politics sense it's very entertaining to hear a old man swear about nothing, in nonsense vs to listen to a lair who can't even talk cleary ,

[surfer161]

Amen, brother

[knowledgemonger]

This is supposed to be his strongest area and yet he puts a border between Iraq and Pakistan and gets the time line all messed up.

According to the latest survey about half of the voters support this loon.

[mrbronze013]

He also thinks that Iran trains Al Queda, that czeckoslovakia is a country, and that Putin is president of germany.

And McCain is supposed to be the big foreign policy expert. He can't even explain the the rationale behind keeping troops in Iraq indefinately after Maliki clearly stated that he wanted a US timeline for withdrawal.

If the America people vote this clown in, they are going to get what they deserve which is four more years of Bush.

[CapeCodFarmer]

He has the "astounding" quality of making something false he is not informed about out of nothing much like our current president. I don't see why conservatives or anyone for that matter endorses this man, he has proven that he cannot handle the responsibility of president because of his inability to give a valid=fact or position on his standpoint. His party's blacklisting of Obama and his supporters as terrorist lovers is a B.S act that only shows how low they have to go to earn support.

[cartoonglutton]

My God...McCain is almost as eloquent, inept, and ill-informed as Bush!!!

Vote Chuck Baldwin in '08!!!

[berlicho09]

MACCAIN STINK I DON'T WANT TO FEEL THAT SHIT

who's going to vote for that shit MACCAIN is shit he has to admit it and also his supporters

[JRV95]

Ummm, shut the fuck up and stop cussing cause its getting annoying.

[getplaning]

The other reason to build the perception that the election will be "too close to call" is so the population will more readily accept another stolen election.

[dragenzX]

THIS IS ALMOST AS FUNNY as McCain Suggesting that a President with lower approval ratings than Nixxon our President Bush. Actually has the power to simpley state his point of view to congress about offshore drilling. Asking them to lift the ban...and Have the global economy's world market show a decrease in the price of a barrel of oil by 10%. There is no drilling going on, someones Idea can not just magicaly make the oil companies lower the price. People are Using Less Because We Are Broke!!!!!

[Rnogawa]

Sunni Awakening??? This is the strategy of arming sunni militias with US tax dollars right? Strange bedfellows in war. NOT! We put Sunni insurgents and Shiite militias on the payroll and the violence reduced. That is the real reason things have calmed down. 20,000 extra troops while helpful, did not make that much difference in a place the size of California.

[akash8m]

He doesn't know Economy, Internet, Geography, and now History. LOL

[asdffd]

Has CBS issued a statement as to why they falsified their newscast in order to protect McCain?

[dogstar7]

Now our "brave men and women" are in Iraq to guard Sheiks??? Mission Creep doesn't even come close to describing it...more like Mission Wander-All-Over-The-Map.

McCain and the Rabid War-Loving Right is disparately trying to paint Obama as a traitor to the troops who betrayed their "sacrifices"

...while back at home, McCain votes against (or ducks) every VA Funding and GI Bill he comes across!!!

[cjbrix]

How can CBS and the press justify whitewashing this interview? Isn't a candidate's ignorance/deception (only McCain knows which) of such a fundamental aspect of the war timeline newsworthy?

McCain really needs to answer for this demonstrated ignorance. (though we all know he won't) But corporate media also deserves a severe reprimand for a coverup that borders on journalistic fraud. How could CBS possibly explain editting out his response as anything other than grotesque partisan bias?

[chaostherie]

WHY DON'T DEBATES, NEWS SHOWS, INTERVIEWS, AND TV SHOWS EVER USE VIDEO TO QUESTION THERE GUESTS!!!!

WE HAVE ALL THESE GREAT YOUTUBE VIDEOS SHOWING THE DISCREPANCIES OF ONE PERSON SAYING TWO THREE OR FOUR DIFFERENT THINGS AND THEY NEVER CALL THEM ON IT..... OR THEY DO BUT WITH OUT VIDEO AND THEN YOU GET A "I DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU GOT THAT QUOTE FROM"

I'm sick of it.... We need debates with video available on the spot!!!!!

[dafttool]

I think that was one reason Tim Russet was so good at doing interviews on Meet The Press. He would ask questions using transcripts & video clips to challenge his guests to defend their positions. All of the time smiling, he would press them to make statements on the record.

[dafttool]

The "Anbar Awakening" started before the surge was even being talked about. McCain is rewriting history to suit his talking points, ...either that or senility is setting in. :-/ And let's remember that the actual Anbar Awakening truly began with the US bribing local leaders with giant mounds of cash.