McCain Reacts to Obama's Iraq Address

[DJsharp707]

im 15 and i know more than fucking obama about war i studied napoleonic tatics when i was 13 wow dude really? omg WHAT ever happened to the military genius was the leader of a nation since protecting ur country was first u have political advisors for economy and other such things, err i wish mcain won and the sad thing is guys you know obama is going to be pres for another 3 more years XI

[MrFoshobro]

Great leaders admit their mistakes, apologize, and move the heck on! Barry's big head would never allow that ... at least I have yet to witness such act from him .. hence he is not a leader ... end of story ... shut your lips!

[randy081392]

Terrorism cannot be defeated using military forces....

[lenboy2]

i cant believe you still think that this war was a good idea.

where is the W.M.D's we went in to find and destroy?

[MrFoshobro]

@lenboy2 If you were president and terrorists just killed close 3,000 people how would you react and what would you do?

[lenboy2]

@MrFoshobro I would go to war with the person and group that was the cause of the attack which is osama bin laden and al qaeda, thats what the war in afghanistan was for, but because president bush and his administration got distracted and started the senseless war in iraq to remove saddam hussein from power by claming they had Weapon of mass destruction (witch were never found by the way) we still havnt brought osama bin laden and al qaeda to justice yet for thair crimes after 9 years.

[MrFoshobro]

@lenboy2 I agree with you on going after the person and/or group who was directly responsible ... it was an ADHD moment for BUSH .. however you can't say that IRAQ is not a better place without Saddam and that it didn't rattle al Queade groups within that country

[lenboy2]

@MrFoshobro the war in iraq acomplished nothing and if you think it did please send me a list of things that the usa got from that war and ill send you a list of things that they lost starting with the global financial meltdown and the longest recession since the great depression

[MrFoshobro]

@lenboy2 and let me guess your small pea sized brain believes the longest recession since the great depression has absolutely nothing to do the policies Obama's has put in place ... let's just throw one out there .... not extending our current tax cuts for all. Your agrument is extremely weak. Don't try and fool yourselve into believing the recession is not a result of policies this adminstration is putting in place ... they have been in office for 2 years .. or do you need to be reminded

[13lackLight]

I'm not sure what real victory is, but it seems to me that if the U.S. wants to reduce insurgency levels to almost zero, they would either need to send TONNES of troops in, which would really anger the Iraqis, or just stay there for the next decade at least.

Is it possible that the lack of U.S. presence will also help lower the justification for the insurgency?

[joshpapendorf]

McCain is a douche. Obama shouldn't of fired McChrystal. You think Eisenhower liked Patton? No, but did he fire him, no, of course Patton is not comparable to McChrystal but whatever. This put's our troops in harms way even more due to the bulletin and lack of military support. The contractor's will be there in increasing numbers. This whole war goes against The Art Of War in almost every way. We need Ron Paul!

[TAMARLANE]

Obama has not done anything right yet. His popularity with the people reflects his ineptitude. We should impeach him now, before he does even more damage.

[SaintHop]

wtf do yall want frm obama, i mean got damn they act like they want him to suck bush's dick or something

[bumper302]

I would love to punch this faggot sean hannity square in the mouth

[SaintHop]

@bumper302 me too

[TAMARLANE]

@bumper302 I understand he is expert at systema. You better sneak up from behind.Probably be more your style.

[HolyCity2012]

The surge didn't work, it was the bribes to the sunnis that shifted their insurgency.

[klimaxxx06]

Obama is accomplishing his campaign promises left and right, he is a very successful President so far in accomplishing his agenda.....agree with it or not

[TheDubDoubt]

@Lighthouse724 no, have you? he hasn't successfully done anything. he picks the new flavor of the month, talks about it a little then moves on

[reasonable71]

Thank you President Bush.

Starting a war on a lie, 4,427 US soldiers dead, 31,000 wounded, destabilized the middle east, and the right wing is pissed because Obama didn't pat Bush on the back.

Get Bent!

[HolyCity2012]

WATCH THIS OR STFU

/watch?v=FDCboLKk-p4

[lmn8bush]

Hey john , can we still win in Vietnam ?

[wiseowl520]

What an idiot McCain is.We are so fortunate he is not in charge.I thought Obamah was more than generous in his remarks on the idiot Bush!

[fusionfission]

Can't beleive these people want to claim this disaster as victory and give Bush credit for the greatest disaster ever US has made after Vietnam. Only reason the president and the govt. did not declare this as a "great disaster" was because of consideration for the troops. 4500 brave Americans dead and these old hags are continuing with the monkey dance. Pathetic republicans.

[swampfaye]

@fusionfission if it IS a disaster, why not give Bush the credit for it? Instead Biden and Obama are taking credit for SUCCESS in Iraq. You can't have it both ways.

[HolyCity2012]

@swampfaye You obviously don't know what you are talking about because nowhere in the presidents address to the nation did he take credit for anything to do with the fiasco called O.I.F. You sir are a liar or an idiot.

[MrJason37659]

obama looks like a circus clown in the oval office! notice the brown curtains behind him?

[coletrainwvu]

swear allegience to your republican overlord,.. democracy is over, welceome to the replubic!!

[hardware12345]

fuck mCcain

[j03y2fly]

i told you we should've elected mccain...I told you

[Wildkkat1]

@Lighthouse724 You're welcome Private Dumb-ass!

[PennyDropper]

Buuuullllll ShHHHHIITiititit!

[TheDubDoubt]

Obama is a cowardly bitch who doesn't follow through on anything. What happened to holding those responsible for the oil spill, protecting our borders, and our new healthcare system????

[pittbullbill]

lack of genrocity lol thanks for leaving me with this fucked up mess is what he should of said.

[AllMyHerosRDead]

Fox News' favorite liberal R.I.N.O. and his number one fan Sean Hannity.

[MEGAFishPrime180]

penis

[888archangel]

Read the information I have posted, this analysis is absurd making it about being "disrespectful" or claiming Bushes "plan" worked. Read about these things, they are well cited, you will find nothing here but bias and trivial disputes about character because the recognition of reality would compromise their business.

[silvereagle2061]

I'm no fan of this President but this is one reason I don't really like Hannity either. If Obama didn't mention Bush in a positive light, Hannity would have said Obama didn't say one nice thing about Bush. Now Obama says something nice about Bush and Hannity says "Is that all?" Give me a break. I'm tired of the Puppets of the Republicans and the Dems.

[888archangel]

Former President George W. Bush consistently referred to the Iraq war as "the central front in the War on Terror", and argued that if the US pulled out of Iraq, "terrorists will follow us here." While other proponents of

[888archangel]

the war have regularly echoed this assertion, as the conflict has dragged on, members of the US Congress, the US public, and even US troops have begun to question the connection between Iraq and the fight against anti-US terrorism. In particular, a consensus has developed among intelligence

[888archangel]

experts that the Iraq war has increased terrorism. Counterterrorism expert Rohan Gunaratna frequently refers to the invasion of Iraq as a "fatal mistake." London's conservative International Institute for Strategic Studies concluded in 2004 that the occupation of Iraq had become "a potent global recruitment pretext" for jihadists and that the invasion

[888archangel]

"galvanised" al-Qaeda and "perversely inspired insurgent violence" there.[350] The US National Intelligence Council concluded in a January 2005 report that the war in Iraq had become a breeding ground for a new generation of terrorists; David B. Low, the national intelligence officer for transnational threats, indicated that the report concluded that the

[888archangel]

war in Iraq provided terrorists with "a training ground, a recruitment ground, the opportunity for enhancing technical skills... Under the best scenario, over time, the likelihood that some of the jihadists who are not killed there will, in a sense, go home, wherever home is, and will therefore disperse to various other countries." The Council's chairman Robert L. Hutchings said, "At the moment, Iraq is a magnet for international terrorist activity."

[888archangel]

And the 2006 National Intelligence Estimate, which outlined the considered judgment of all 16 US intelligence agencies, held that "The Iraq conflict has become the 'cause celebre' for jihadists, breeding a deep resentment of US involvement in the Muslim world and cultivating supporters for the global jihadist movement

[smowkdaddy]

Remember Mcrystal and when he said 40000

troops The surge was reduced to 30000! Obummer then fires Mcrystal and rehires a general he also fired! While Bush stayed the course! Obama destroyed it! PERIOD!

[888archangel]

On May 1, 2005 the "Downing Street memo" was published in The Sunday Times. It contained an overview of a secret July 23, 2002 meeting among British government, Ministry of Defence, and British intelligence figures

[888archangel]

who discussed the build-up to the Iraq war — including direct references to classified U.S. policy of the time. The memo stated, "Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."

[888archangel]

The CIA had contacted Iraq's foreign minister, Naji Sabri, who was being paid by the French as an agent. Sabri informed them that Saddam had hidden poison gas among Sunni tribesmen, had ambitions for a nuclear program but

that it was not active, and that no biological weapons were being produced or stockpiled, although research was underway. According to Sidney Blumenthal, George Tenet briefed Bush on September 18, 2002 that Sabri had

[888archangel]

informed them that Iraq did not have WMD. Bush dismissed this top-secret intelligence from Hussein's inner circle which was approved by two senior CIA officers. The information was never shared with Congress or even CIA agents examining whether Saddam had such weapons.

Tenet (left, in pink tie) in the Oval Office with President George W. Bush.

In September 2002, the Bush administration, the CIA and the DIA said attempts by Iraq to acquire high-strength aluminum tubes that were

[888archangel]

prohibited under the UN monitoring program and which they said pointed to a clandestine effort to make centrifuges to enrich uranium for nuclear

bombs.This analysis was opposed by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) and INR, which was significant because of DOE's expertise in such gas centrifuges and nuclear weapons programs. The DOE and INR argued that

[888archangel]

the Iraqi tubes were poorly suited for centrifuges, though it was technically possible with additional modification. A report by the Institute for Science and International Security in 2002 reported that it was highly unlikely that the tubes could be used to enrich uranium.An effort by the DOE to correct this detail in comments prepared for

[888archangel]

United States Secretary of State Colin Powell's UN appearance was rebuffed by the administration and Powell, in his address to the UN Security Council just before the war, referenced the aluminum tubes, stating that while experts disagreed on whether or not the tubes were destined for a centrifuge program, the specifications of the tubes were unusually tight.

[888archangel]

Powell later admitted he had presented what turned out to be an inaccurate case to the UN on Iraqi weapons, and the intelligence he was relying on was, in some cases, "deliberately misleading."Shortly after the United States presidential election, 2008, and the election of rival Democratic party nominee Barack Obama, president Bush admitted that "[my] biggest regret of all the presidency has to have been the intelligence failure in Iraq".

[piketyl000]

THANK GOD john McCain is not the President

[Wildkkat1]

@zany3030 Not a chance in hell for 2 terms by Odumb-ass!

[MrFreedomdemocracy]

If we were in the hands ov McCain we would be still in Iraq spending trillions of dollars. This guy never cared abut the American people and as he said when he campained as president .... "I don't understand economy"

[1MattDamon]

Why is everybody surprised with this jackass of a president?

[1MattDamon]

@1MattDamon What did BinLaden say, I can defeat the Americans on my own turf, thank you Mr No leader Obama.

[NMCreator]

reminds me of a reptile

[95tahoe1]

i know it was a long time ago , but does anyone remember Bush changing the reasons we went into Iraq? first WMD, then stablize the region, then it was to promote democercy, then it was saddam was a bad guy, then it was to stop Al-qaeda The war started in 2003 and the surge did not start until 2007. And what he said during the 4 years was to 'stay the course'. Does anyone remember that?

[daveh69]

@95tahoe1 Does anyone remember how congress voted for it, does anyone remember how both clintons supported ousting of saddam? does anyone remember how the dems ran tail when the political part was getting hotter they ran and bush stayed the course adjusting as needed.Nope, because all you did was watch cnn and the other bush haters, all we saw was death toll and where are they now, they are so in the hip pocket of the dems it isn't even funny and Saddam himself even thoght he had wpd's.

[95tahoe1]

@daveh69 YOU know you gloss over the glearing errors of Bush. Did you only watch Fox? From " MISSION ACCOMPLISHED to we will be hailed as Liberators" I'm not a hater I was in italy when 2003 war started. But you wont see the errors. You believed everything you heard. You did not question a thing. I listened to both sides and looked at whats was real and not what was said. something did not match But that ok for you. You only listen to one source. and they made up your mind. So sad!!!

[daveh69]

@95tahoe1 NO, however, there are errors in every war and it depends on the people who run it to change and modify as needed. But when you have the likes of obama, reid, palosi and many others saying the troops raided and murdered and the war was loss. Yea, I will point out the accomplishments of the Bush admin. Also, if it wasn't for bush, we wouldn't be pulling out of iraq in a timely manner.

[LogicLyfe]

LOL, won the war in Iraq?

There was never any war, in Iraq. The occupation in Iraq was just about greed. Sure, Hussein was a dictator, but he was not our problem. It was not our job to remove him from power.

I could understand why we're in Afghanistan, but i don't think we should be there either. This is a battle you won't win. For every ten insurgents you kill, a hundred more will pop up. Get the F out of Afghanistan, and send our troops to the borders. That's the real battle.

[daveh69]

@LogicLyfe So lets see, ooops facts don't back up your bs at all

[itachi000797]

Thank god the combat troops were taken out. Now we can go to where the terrorists are.

[daveh69]

@torzidotwisted yea sure, it was based on the time line bush set not obama dips shit

[paxetlux1]

Charles Krauthammer is always spot on when it comes to Obama. CK knows the politician better than Obama knows himself. I agree completely with John McCain too.

[coumadin75]

I am not a republican but i agree with McCain 100% here. Obama is a coward

[diasflac69]

@coumadin75

Obama is a fucking dumbass nigger ass puto shit eating ass fuckah.

[HolyCity2012]

@coumadin75 If you are such a tuff guy then why don't you enlist?

Or are you a coward?

[reasonable71]

@coumadin75

Obama increase 65,000 troops to Afghanistan, took a stand and ended the quagmire in Iraq, and even gave the order to take out some pirates. Doesn't sound cowardly to me.

You might not be a Republican but you sure sound like one.

You right wingers hate muslims but are more than happy continuing an endless war defending a muslim country. Ironic or just idiotic?

[bumper302]

@reasonable71 Your comment was a breath of fresh air in a room full of smoke

[shadowwbn]

@coumadin75 If you agree 100% with McCain then your an idiot. The first part about gratitude! WMD'S WAS A FUKING LIE WE SHOULD NOT HAVE INVADED THEM PERIOD! That being said, the rest about the surge is correct Bush may have f'd up the start of the war, but he did play a significant role in correcting his huge FUK'UP by having the balls to ignore everyone & allow our troops to finish the mission & return home with some dignity. BTW Hannity, all missions were NOT accomplished, no WMD's were found!

[AminWRX]

What I would give to put a ball gag in both McCain and Sean. Thank you for ruining our country you republican scum.

[Wildkkat1]

Even mentioning a withdrawl date is assinine. The enemy will just hide, build there strength and wait till we leave! Obama is one stupid idiot! 

[enuvune]

america can't stay there forever.

[Wildkkat1]

@enuvune How long did it take you to figure that out? Duh! You don't tell anyone your plans, even your own people! The Taliban will avoid any contact with US forces, till next year, then take-over the Govt. after we've pulled out and start beheading all the Afghans that cooperated with the US! Obama is stupid!

[enuvune]

that had absolutely nothing to do with my comment.

[HolyCity2012]

@Wildkkat1 "the enemy" Laugh Out Loud! Why don't you buy yourself a plane ticket and go fight "the enemy" yourself.

You stupid idiot.

[Wildkkat1]

@HolyCity2012 The enemy is muslim stinking terrorist, you liberal commie-fag! We've been at war with stinking shit-bags for ten years, you pea-brain-idiot!

[Wildkkat1]

@HolyCity2012 I did 4 in the Corps by the way, coward!

[Wildkkat1]

@HolyCity2012 You're the one with the fag mouth, go blow the taliban with keith and chris, and show maddow how to be a woman! LOL!

[shadowwbn]

@Wildkkat1 Your forgetting the other piece of the pie. If the enemy hide, and 'build their strength until we leave." You forgot to mention that while the enemy is 'hiding' this allows time for the regime to train more soldiers, lay down more govt. sovereignty, and allow a time of decreased violence, which will instill more confidence in the people, that things are getting better, and to participate more in the rebuilding of their govt. Of course its the middle east so I doubt this would happen

[Wildkkat1]

@shadowwbn The only problem with that is the taliban and al-queda know they can't take on the US military toe to toe, that is why they us roadside bombs, and hit and run tactics. If they drag out the war long enough they know the American public will start screaming for an end to the war, and we will leave. The same tactic worked on the Russians and on us in Vietnam.

[shadowwbn]

@Wildkkat1 You left one thing out, they are also preying on the fact that the longer it drags out, then the people will grow tired of the violence, and seeing that we cant get rid of the insurgents then they will join them to get rid of us so the violence stops. I dont like the situation, its pretty bad. We would have been able to accomplish more if we were able to focus all of our efforts into Afghanistan instead of the Iraq BS, but Afghan. didnt have enough Oil for Bush.

[Wildkkat1]

@shadowwbn Afghanistan was where al-queda was based, and they move through out the MEast. remember 9/11 that is what started the whole thing. Pakistan has 60 - 100 nuclear weapon, and that is the main reason we don't want terrorist getting to them, and we can stop them if our military is close. Obama is not doing anything to stop Iran from getting nukes, and that is a big mistake.

[shadowwbn]

@Wildkkat1 Alqaeda was formed and given financial support in the millions by the CIA around 1988 when Russia began withdrawing troops from afghanistan. The CIA wanted some control in this area, but they tried making demands to directly make them do or play in a manner that benefited the CIA they got the finger. Then CIA continued to harrass them until they declared jihad and everything else we all know. This was exactly what JFK was trying to stop until CIA killed him off.

[adamitshelanu]

I contend that Obamie will be remembered in the way Lyndon B. Johnson is.

[pfizzbones]

I don't agree with almost everything with John McCain, except war and national security. And he's got it right here.