McCain, trying to score a few desperate points against Obama, gets the Iraq time line drastically wrong. CBS does its part to cover up fr McCain.
McCain gets it wrong about Iraq timeline
- Post author:Erich Vieth
- Post published:July 22, 2008
- Post category:History / Iraq / Politics / War
- Post comments:4 Comments
Erich Vieth
Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.
McCain is a proven fraud. He doesn't know enough to be an authority on the Middle East and he showing more of his ignorance every week:
The major Sunni sheik who John McCain said was protected by the surge and subsequently helped lead the Anbar Awakening, was actually assassinated by an al-Qaeda led group in midst of the surge.
On Tuesday evening, McCain falsely claimed that the downturn in violence in Iraq's Anbar province was a result of the surge, when in fact the surge began months afterward. Moreover, he said, if it weren't for the work of U.S. forces, the major Sunni figure leading that awakening wouldn't have had the protection he needed.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/23/anbar-sh…
McCain seems to like asserting causal connections when none exist, whenever it is politically expedient to do so. One of the examples I saw recently was his assertion that this week's dip in oil prices was caused by Bush's lifting of the presidential ban on off-shore drilling. The fact is that Bush's lifting of the presidential ban had no impact on off-shore drilling, and no impact on global oil prices, because the presidential ban did not affect the restrictions that Congress and the various states continue to have on off-shore drilling. The presidential ban was merely symbolic, so Bush's lifting of it had no impact on the real world. McCain is simply a liar.
McCain has indicated that Iraq was "first major conflict after 9/11."
What about Afghanistan? Slipped his mind? Cenk Uygur noticed the problem and posted on it at Huffpo.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/another-…
The media just won't let go of it's mantra that McCain is strong on foreign policy even though he has proven himself to be week on foreign history, foreign geography, and foreign culture.
How can you be strong on anything foreign if you are ignorant about everything foreign. I'd love to have McCain try to stand up and talk without his notes for 10 minutes about Iraq culture, history, language and geography. His recent series of gaffes prove that he is weak in foreign affairs. The corporate media need to stop giving him a free ride on this issue.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtliscvsT5c&featur…