McCain Goes to Kabul to Criticize the President on Afghanistan?

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KABUL — US Senator John McCain on Wednesday urged President Barack Obama to clarify plans for troop withdrawals from Afghanistan, saying setting a deadline was confusing and had boosted the Taliban.

"It was wrong to set the date of July" next year, McCain told a news conference at the US Embassy in the Afghan capital, Kabul. "It sent out the wrong message and it created a problem.

"We need to have the president of the United States state unequivocally that it will be solely condition-based and so, I worry a great about the effect, not only here but it encourages our enemies and it discourages our plans."


McCain, Lieberman and senators Lindsey Graham and Kirsten Gillibrand earlier met the top US commander in Afghanistan, General David Petraeus, and held talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

From Kabul, they fly to Pakistan, where they said they will raise concerns about insurgents operating "with impunity" against US and NATO forces from across the porous border with Afghanistan.

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[elleng]

1. traitorous

[sufrommich]

8. Yep. nt

[malaise]

2. That senile old fool is still traveling

Bet he and that neo-con Randy whatever are looking some consultancy money.

[jaxx]

3. Shame on John McCain.

What an utterly defeated man.

[DonCoquixote]

4. If Mc won

and Obama did this, the tea Party would be stringing O. up from a tree. Sorry to use a loaded image, but Afro-Americans know that is EXACTLY what the GOP would call for.

[Poll_Blind]

5. Oh please run in 2012 you insane douche bag. Maybe with Gayle "Obama's an ARAB" Quinnell as VP pick?

PB

[AC_Mem]

6. Um, John? You lost.

As much as you hate to admit it Mr. Flipflopper, you lost the election and you can't tell the President what to do.

RESPECT YOUR PRESIDENT.

[Parker CA]

7. What an unAmerican fuckwad. nt

[TwilightGardener]

9. Undermining the President and the mission from abroad. Class act.

[spartan61]

10. Can McCain go anywhere without

Lieberman and Graham? They are truly the Three Stooges.

[spanone]

11. who's the commander-in-chief here?

[madinmaryland]

12. Ironic that he has become a "Jane Fonda". What a douchebag.

John McFondacain.