McCain: Delusional Or Desperate?
Sen. John McCain criticized reports out of Iraq he said focused unfairly on violence, saying Sunday that Americans were not getting a “full picture” of progress in the security crackdown in the capital.
An Iraqi military spokesman said, meanwhile, that militants fleeing the crackdown have made areas outside the capital “breeding grounds for violence,” spreading deadly bombings and sectarian attacks to areas once relatively untouched.
McCain, who is seeking the Republican presidential nomination, was combative during a press conference in the military’s media center in the heavily guarded Green Zone, and responded testily to a question about remarks he had made in the United States last week that it was safe to walk some Baghdad streets.
It’s like a sack of potatoes, John. If one sticks out on one side and you push it in there, another one sticks out on the other side. When the increased troops stop their sweeps in the big city, the bombers will be back.
As the casualties mount, your angry, crazed defense of wasting American lives, limbs, and lucre will leave an increasingly bad taste in the mouths of even your own primary voters. It would be sad watching you deflate your own hot air balloon with self-inflicted dishonesty, if it weren’t exactly what you deserve because of all the people you could help save by reversing course and denouncing this administration’s murderous madness. You should hope that there is no hell, John.
April 1st, 2007 at 12:00 pm
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