McCain casts doubt on Gen. Casey as U.S. Army head (to be the fall guy)

[rodeodance]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070121/ts_nm/usa_iraq_leadership_dc

McCain casts doubt on Gen. Casey as U.S. Army head

By Donna Smith 1 hour, 25 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record) on Sunday said he might vote against Gen. George W. Casey's nomination as Army chief of staff, saying he had "serious concerns" about the man who has overseen the
Iraq war since 2004.


"I have very serious concerns about General Casey's nomination," McCain said on NBC's "Meet the Press."

"I'm concerned about failed leadership, the message that sends to the rest of the military," he added.

McCain casts doubt on Gen. Casey as U.S. Army head - Yahoo! News
McCain, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee and 2008 presidential hopeful, is a major advocate of President George W. Bush's plan to send more U.S. troops to Iraq to try to quell the sectarian violence there, an idea that had been resisted by Casey.

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"General Casey will be held to account for the advice he's given in the past, for the strategy he proposed in the past. And we'll have to make a decision as a Congress what's the best thing for General Petraeus and this new strategy," Graham said on CNN

[rodeodance]

1. but says the WH supports him.

.The White House on Sunday praised Casey and said officials would work with senators to address their concerns.

"General Casey is an outstanding general who deserves the support of the Senate and a swift confirmation," said White House spokeswoman Nicole Guillemard.

[BayCityProgressive]

2. If a Dem

cast doubt on a general..you would hear the media screaming that we want to kill our troops and become part of Iraq.

[Kagemusha]

4. But McCain's a Serious Person so he gets to do this.

'Nuff said.

[LynnTheDem]

3. 72% of Americans OPPOSE you & the MFing bush's escalation, McCain.

So really, no one cares about your bullshit.

But hey, feel free to keep up the crap that'll drive that 72% opposition even higher!

[goforit]

11. It boggles my mind that MSM gives this deranged Bush advocate airtime.

[CoffeeCat]

5. So it's ok for Repubs to insult the military???

How can McCain be so unpatriotic and lacking in support of our military AND our troops!

Fer God's sake man...we're at war!!

Why does John McCain hate the military and our soldiers SO MUCH???

Does he not realize that he's emboldening the terrorists when he criticizes
our military during a time of war????

Why does John McCain love Al Queda so much?

:eyes:

[jody]

6. McCain says "I'm concerned about failed leadership"! Then why isn't he fighting *?

The only answer is McCain is a pure hypocrite. He has sold active duty military and veterans for the proverbial "30 pieces of silver" just like that other infamous Republican military hero Randy "Duke" Cunningham.

[hippiechick]

8. Yeah, that jumped out at me too ..

.... whatever happened to a President who says - and means - "the buck stops here" ?


:puke:

[alcibiades_mystery]

7. How low will McCain go?

I think people will have to start asking why McCain seems so willing to throw out an almost automatic nomination in order to bolster the Bush-made catastrophe. What kind of advice is he getting? What kind of incentive is there for him to be the front-end of this train wreck? I'm utterly mystified by his self-implosion.

Don't get me wrong. I never liked McCain, nor believed a word of the "Maverick" rhetoric, much less the laughable nonsense about the "straight-talk express." I'm a rhetoric guy of the old school. If somebody tells me that they're NOT using rhetoric ("straight-talk," "plain English," "no-spin zone"), I reach for my pocket, cuz I'm about to be robbed. But that non-rhetoric rhetoric stood McCain in good stead with plenty of people, and he is now in the process of dismantling any independent legitimacy he had once produced through it, as the recent polls out of New Hampshire demonstrate. I don't get it. I really don't. His support for this obviously disastrous war, his willingness to have the stupid idea of the troops surge associated with his name, his unfailing support of all things Bush: it's all so self-destructive as to be unexplainable, except as self-destruction.

[hippiechick]

9. ... the BFEE is a very good digger of dirt ...

... they must have had some really good shit on McCain that they used, both in the 2000 primary season, and ever since, to keep him in line and spouting the praises of Boy George.


:shrug:

[alcibiades_mystery]

10. Of I believed in such a thing as the BFEE, I would probably agree

I suspect it's something else.

[xxqqqzme]

12. has mccain been promised the veep

after darth cheney heads off to the golden fields of 'hunting'?