McCain says he 'knows how to win wars'

[sabra]

Source: AP

ALBUQUERQUE -- Republican John McCain said today that he knows "how to win wars" and the strategy of increasing troop levels in Iraq should also be applied to Afghanistan.

"Sen. Obama will tell you we can't win in Afghanistan without losing in Iraq. In fact, he has it exactly backwards," McCain told a town hall meeting. "It is precisely the success of the surge in Iraq that shows us the way to succeed in Afghanistan."

"I know how to win wars. And if I'm elected President, I will turn around the war in Afghanistan, just as we have turned around the war in Iraq, with a comprehensive strategy for victory," he said.

Moments earlier, his Democratic rival, Sen. Barack Obama said in a speech in Washington the U.S. must end the war in Iraq and that Afghanistan, by contrast, is "a war that we have to win."

Read more: http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20080715/NEWS02/318173395

[NC_Nurse]

1. Like when he won in Vietnam? WTF?

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Hitler said the equivalent. A rank corporal telling German generals,

veteran of the First World War, graduates of military colleges how to prosecute a war. And it really is easy to "win" a war if you're willing to destroy wholesale entire sovereignties.

[crikkett]

22. And he almost pulled it off, so... n/t

[NJmaverick]

23. Not quite, McCain did go to the Naval War College

His statement is more a boast that is not supported by facts, rather than an unqualified statement.

[Kelvin Mace]

32. Did he graduate at the bottom of that class

as well?

[NJmaverick]

33. Technically that was Naval Academy

After Vietnam he went to the Naval War Colloge for Graduate work. We don't know how he did there.

[Justitia]

34. Says who? He graduated from the US Naval Academy in Annapolis - that's it.

He certainly does not have a Masters Degree from the Naval War College in Newport.

After Vietnam, his Dad's buddy John Warner pulled strings (& rank) to allow him to attend school at the NATIONAL War College at Fort McNair, Washington DC - the school had already refused him, but Warner flexed muscle on behalf of his friend's son and got him in. He only stayed there a few months before moving on. He never earned a degree there either.

[RiverStone]

3. Stupid is as stupid does

What a ridiculous statement. Sadly, there are a number of village idiots that walk in lock-step with the pukes who will buy this video game talk; but they would never vote for Barack Obama anyway.

[bdamomma]

4. he is so full of it.

and 42% of Americans are for this guy???? what the hell is wrong with these people?

[Demeter]

5. They Aren't Wars, They Are Illegal Occupations

which cannot be won by definition by anybody except the natives. Except by genocide, of couse.

So that's two war crimes right there.


What we need is a leader who can correctly identitfy and ethically address the issues. Not McCain.

[MindPilot]

6. Yes, but can he start a jet engine? n/t

[mikeytherat]

24. I hear rumors he "wet-started" at least one.

mikey_the_rat

[Downtown Hound]

7. So sayeth the man who got shot down.

[fascisthunter]

8. take the macho BS to your shrink

[redqueen]

9. The man is plumb insane. (nt)

[tularetom]

10. Tell us about all the wars ya won asshole

Sounds like Nixon's secret plan to win the war in Vietnam.

[xxqqqzme]

11. and I'm supposed to believe someone

who graduated at the bottom of his naval academy class?

[OwnedByFerrets]

12. Show ONE example asshole...nt

[hatrack]

13. That's world-class stupid

nt

[paparush]

14. Momma always said war is like a box of chocolates...

[paparush]

15. McCain gives Bush** a seriouis backhand here with his "turn the war around" line..

Even Johnny Lockjaw knows Afghanistan is a giant clusterf*ck.

His belief in the "Surge" is pure Goering-esque propaganda.

[paparush]

16. McCain gives Bush** a solid backhand with the line "turn around the war in Afghanistan"

Even Johnny Lockjaw knows Afghanistan is a giant clusterf*ck.

His belief in the "Surge" is pure Goering-esque propaganda.

[endarkenment]

17. So is he like keeping it a secret from that idiot in the white house?

[balantz]

18. He may be right.

But it will take him 100 years! :nuke:

[Orsino]

19. When is he going to reveal the big secret?

'Cause, like, America could really have used that info, oh, sometime in the last forty years.

[flakey_foont]

20. just like the last one

send Sherman to destroy Atlanta? (oh and Peabody too)

[crikkett]

21. The last time we won a war was against Japan. He doesn't know. n/t

[Downtown Hound]

28. Hey, you forgot Grenada!

GRENADA! Whooo!

[0rganism]

31. and Panama! Woohoo!

:bounce:

[Beausoleil]

25. So is he saying

that we would have "won" the Vietnam war if he hadn't been locked up in Hanoi for five years? Damn the luck.

By extension he must be saying that we "lost" the war because he got himself captured.

[NewEnglandGirl]

26. What does he think this is,

a card game? I want someone who knows how to not CAUSE wars.

[earthlover]

27. McCain doesn't even know how not to get his plane crashed....

...let alone win a war!

[NoGOPZone]

29. Does this mean he's rejoining the Navy? nt

[Justitia]

30. He's SENILE and his wandering imagination is now making it's own history. -eom

[daleo]

35. If wars never end, then you never lose

And that's kind of like winning.

[truthisfreedom]

36. All he knows is how to crash millions of dollars worth of planes. 5 of them, right?

If you include the one he let get shot down.

[bamacrat]

37. You cant loose a war that never ends.

This is a deranged old coot, one who needs to go sit on his porch and watch the sun set, not one who needs to run a country that needs reform.