U.S. presidential hopeful John McCain says he still would have toured Iraqi market without heavy sec

[floda]

Source: IHT

PHOENIX: Republican presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain said he would have taken his tour of an Iraqi market last week even if he had not been accompanied by heavily armed U.S. soldiers.

McCain hopeful said he would have walked through a central Baghdad market without the military protection, but the top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, had recommended the armed escort.

"I'm not notorious for being nervous about going anywhere," said McCain. "I'll gladly go almost anywhere in the world, under any circumstances, but I did respond and do what General Petraeus asked me to do."

McCain and other members of a congressional delegation toured the market last week, traveling in armored military vehicles and wearing body armor during their hourlong excursion.

Read more: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/10/america/NA-POL-US-McCain-Iraq.php

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WTF?

[no_hypocrisy]

1. OK, I'm skeptical. Prove it, John.

[acmavm]

29. My first thought too.

[Kikosexy2]

32. Sure..

whatever...but next time if you get shot at or blown up don't come bitching about it...

[Lasher]

70. Bring me back a rug, John.

I hear they're real cheap.

Oh, I get it. It's General Petraeus' fault you made a fool of yourself. Guess he picked the location too, just across the street from the green zone boundary.

[Joe Bacon]

63. Hey john! I got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell to you!

He is either just as stupid as Bush or every bit the liar Bush is.

[formercia]

2. I can hear Petraeus now

Are you out of your fucking mind!!?

[bklyncowgirl]

61. The last thing Petraus needs is to have a high profile US Senator get himself blown to smithereens.

Could it be that the general knows a bit more about what is happening on the ground than Senator McCain.

[babylonsister]

3. What a lyin' POS. nt

[Roland99]

4. So, uh, why doesn't he head back there now? Nice weekend coming up.

Go for it, McWhore!!

[Dhalgren]

5. Shit, John, just come to Birmingham and walk through Norwood

at one in the morning. What a fucking liar...

[Xipe Totec]

6. Petraeus recommended the armed escort,

because he has more sense than McCain.

[Donnachaidh]

7. then go ahead and GO BACK without the protection McCain

You lying fatmouth jerk.

Walk through that SAME area with NO sharpshooters, body armour and 100 soldiers. Do a solo stroll.

We'll send a few cameras to set up on the rooftops. And then we'll do a live feed.

[saigon68]

34. He'd last less than 15 minutes

[Frank Cannon]

8. Coulda, woulda, shoulda, Johnnie Boy.

Too fuckin' late. But thanks for keeping this in the newspapers, moron.

[Gman]

9. Memo to McCain: You're in a hole

Remember the first rule of holes: When you're in a hole, stop digging!

[Botany]

10. Go now John

And while you are there bring a translator and stop @
the homes of the 21 merchants who were taken away
and shot because you made them targets .... or go to
the funerals for the children who were killed in the
bomb blast to honor your market visit.

[City Lights]

11. How big of him to blame it on the general.

:eyes:

If you're such a brave man, John, why don't you go back without the entourage?

[Puglover]

12. John

You are so completely done. Over. Finished. Sad you don't see it.

[DrDan]

13. why

why would he?

what would that prove?

He is just trying to save face - his comment was so ridiculous.

He has sold out.

[TheCowsCameHome]

14. Go ahead. Next time maybe you can get 10 rugs for $5.

Phony.

[Lerkfish]

15. sooooo....then why didn't he?

since that was the alleged point of him being there?

[FreeStateDemocrat]

16. This proves one thing - he is far too crazy to hold any public office.

A threat to himself and society in general, institutionalize the old fart before he hurts himself or innocent bystanders.

[hedgehog]

45. Agreed!

[Demit]

17. Hahahahahaha! "Yeah? Well I WOULD'VE!" Right, John. O-o-o-kay.

[mike_c]

18. that's why he should be president...?

Because he hasn't got the sense to come in out of the rain of bullets?

[zbdent]

19. Please do, John. Although ...

maybe the sympathy factor for losing a "high-profile" Presidential hopeful might just give the Republicans the win in 2008 ... they desperately will need it.

Wanna take one for the team, John? Come on, be a good soldier ...

[antonialee839]

20. Okay there looney toons.

I'm sure the remaining un-executed market vendors would really appreciate seeing you again.

[Javaman]

21. Armed escort????

And armed escort is 5 or 6 people with guns.

100+ service men 3 black hawk helicopters and 2 Apache helicopters is a small army.

okay mr tough talking out your ass mclame, I take you up on your severe case of false bravado. go take a stroll down that same street without all that protection.

That would be the quickest way to eliminate you from the presidential race.

[colorado_ufo]

65. He's already eliminated himself.

McC simply keeps stating that *'s strategy for Iraq is the right one. Just keep on saying it - that way even a moran knows that having him in office simply guarantees another four years of the same war (at least until his keepers are ready to announce the next one).

[BigDDem]

22. Two words:

Bu bye.

[Ian David]

23. Good! Let him shut-up and go DO IT then!

[MGD]

24. That comment is gonna follow him around like bad smell on an old fish I think.

How fucking stupid does he think we are? His life expectancy in that Bagdhad market would be about ten minutes or less without an armed escort.

[KansDem]

25. BREAKING!!!: Sen. McCain travels back to Iraq with no troops, no armor, no protection

I just gotta...keep this...thing...in front...of me *whew*

[wicket]

26. Then he should go back and PROVE it.

:grr:

[AngryOldDem]

27. Oh, bullshit

Please give us more credit for intelligence than that, John.

But if you're really serious -- pay a return visit.

Just take ownership of your stupid comments and be done with it.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

28. It's a sad thing, watching a once-honorable man go insane.

There was a time, long since gone, when I would indeed have considered him a viable candidate.

Then he wigged out.

I wonder if even HE knows what happened to so completely change him.

[kskiska]

30. Would he have driven himself in from the airport, too?

…in an unarmored Toyota?

[tabasco]

31. He doesn't even have to pay for a plane ticket.

Transports going to Baghdad every day, Johnnie Boy.

[damntexdem]

33. Then his poor judgment clearly shows that he is unfit to be president -- or even senator.

And had he survived, he might have had something to shoot off his mouth about -- but he did it with heavy security and deserves all the criticism he has taken for his stupid claims.

[Forkboy]

35. More like US Presidential forgeddaboutit.

John,we hardly knew ye...thank Christ.

[HuffleClaw]

36. oh, so he's blaming the military now?

geeze, why doesn't he just offer to demonstrate how large his genitalia is on live tv?

[cliss]

37. Hm -

"I'm not notorious for being nervous about going anywhere," said McCain. "I'll gladly go almost anywhere in the world, under any circumstances, but I did respond and do what General Petraeus asked me to do."
= = = = = = = = =
OK, analyzing at his statement. When I first read it, I picked up on the peculiar wording. Notice, he starts out with a NEGATIVE, "I'm NOT notorious ...for being nervous".

Also, NOTORIOUS is such a weird word to be used when you're talking about being brave, tough guy, get out there, and so on. Notorious means you have a reputation, usually a bad one.

Verdict: these are Freudian slips. He's really saying 'no' about taking risks, and yes he's notorious, and he's definitely nervous about going anywhere in the world.

[Orsino]

38. Hey, rubes!

Got a great new line of bullshit that you're sure to love!

[AzDar]

39. Well, he did promise to OFF himself if the Dems won last November....

:rofl:

[yorkiemommie1]

40. then do it

and do it for several weeks in a row.

[BlueStater]

41. Shut up and let it go already, John

You're only digging yourself into a deeper hole.

[LynnTheDem]

42. So why didn't you, McCain? Then one less idiot rightwingnut

to stink up the world.

[Vinca]

43. Sometimes you just want to say . . . SHUT UP! nt

[Felix Mala]

44. Because he's C-r-A-Z-y John McCain!!! He'll do a-N-y-t-H-i-N-G to be president

... because he's C-R-a-z-Y!!!!

He'll dance on the wing of a fighter jet at 50,000 feet...

He'll swim across the Atlantic Ocean...

He'll dive into a volcano...

Anything to get your vote.

He's I-n-s-A-N-e!!!

[WeRQ4U]

46. Yeah, and I couldn't studied harder, got into Harvard Law, and been a chief justice too...

I just didn't.

[Zenlitened]

47. Well, then go ahead. Walk the walk -- literally -- if you feel that strongly about it.

But I fear the next thing we'll be reading about you, Mr. Senator, will be the schedule for viewing at the Rotunda. :(

[classysassy]

48. That goofy guy

more lies from a republican seeking the white house.

[daleo]

49. It's not too late

Show us your stuff, McCain.

[Hand]

50. Ahem... when you're in a hole, stop digging...

...asshat. On second thought, keep digging! Dig more! Dig deeper! :evilgrin:

ON EDIT: With apologies to Gman, who beat me to it! :hi:

[superconnected]

51. He can still do it! Take gw with ya.

[against all enemies]

52. Today would have been a good day to go John.

[yellowcanine]

53. Testicular growth inversely proportional to the distance from the danger.

Amazing how that works.

[Canuckistanian]

54. Senile Dementia is a terrible thing

Get this man some help.

Seriously.

[Laurab]

66. I agree - this is a sick man

I don't know if it's dementia or if he's just fucking nuts, but he's certainly not sane.

[mountainvue]

55. Oh bullshit. n/t

[mvd]

56. "had recommended?"

Give me a break. Sounds like he had the opportunity to do it and didn't.

[pinniped]

57. It's time to get this * ass kisser a plane ticket.

.

[Theduckno2]

58. Just what America needs in a President.

Someone who can make the right decisions..... in hindsight. :sarcasm:


What a doofus, blaming it on Gen. Petraeus, the guy who ordered all those troops into harms way for your photo-op.

I'm in agreement with some of my fellow posters, just keep digging John.

[w4rma]

59. Put up or shut up. (nt)

[bklyncowgirl]

60. No one's questioning your courage Senator--It's your judgment we have a problem with.

Senator, everybody agrees that you are a personally brave man--a guy who spent several years in the Hanoi Hilton as a guest of the Viet Cong has nothing to prove on that front.

It sounds to me now like you're now throwing General Petraeus under the bus for acting like a four star nervous nanny for making sure that your group had adequate protection.

Senator, is it possible that the general knows a little bit more about what the situation on the ground in Iraq is than you do?

What would the damage to the mission you so strongly support have been if you or one of your group had been killed while trying to cut a good deal on carpets?

It's your judgment Senator.

[trof]

62. Could someone just take his shovel away?

[sendero]

64. Woulda coulda shoulda....

.. man what a pissant McCain has become.

[Jack Rabbit]

67. If you believe this, such a deal I have for you

For Sale



The Golden Gate Bridge

A great investment!

Each southbound car pays you $5.

Buy now and (to show you what a nice guy I am) I'll throw in

Beachfront Property by the Sea of Tranquility

Contact: John McCain
Washington, DC

Photo: Winter Insurance (Austria)

[krispos42]

68. Nobody's stopping you, John n/t

[cliss]

69. Kicked -

just for the snide remarks
Luv 'em :smoke: