The AIPAC policy conference began today, and John McCain planned to waste little time sowing fear about his presumptive Democratic opponent for the presidency, Barack
Obama. From NYT’s The Caucus:
he charged that Mr. Obama’s calls for diplomacy with Iran were misguided and insufficient, and that his proposal to begin withdrawing United States troops from Iraq would lead to chaos in the region and endanger Israel. In remarks that Senator McCain planned to deliver in a cavernous room here at the Washington convention center, he dwelled on the threat that a nuclear-armed Iran would pose –and criticized the positions of Mr. Obama, his likely Democratic rival. “The Iranians have spent years working toward a nuclear program,’’ Mr. McCain was to say, according to excerpts from the speech provided by his campaign. “And the idea that they now seek nuclear weapons because we refuse to engage in presidential-level talks is a serious misreading of history,’’ he added, noting that previous overtures by the Clinton administration had failed. “Even so, we hear talk of a meeting with the Iranian leadership offered up as if it were some sudden inspiration, a bold new idea that somehow nobody has ever thought of before,’’he said in the advance text of his speech, which was provided by his campaign.“Yet it’s hard to see what such a summit with President Ahmadinejad would actually gain, except an earful of anti-Semitic rants, and a worldwide audience for a man who denies one Holocaust and talks before frenzied crowds about starting another. Such a spectacle would harm Iranian moderates and dissidents, as the radicals and hardliners strengthen their position and suddenly acquire the appearance of respectability.”Updated: Footage above of McCain’s speech via Jerusalem Online Posted by Brad A. Greenberg in 57 Comments — Leave your comment
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Your information will not be shared or sold without your consent. Get all the details.Imagine...a man running for the highest office in a country that has signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty discussing a threat to a country that refuses to sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty as if our interests are the same (hint: they are not). We shed blood & liquidity for Israel - she never, ever returns the favor. Heck we even shed our blood at the HANDS of Israel ala the U.S.S. Liberty. We should be embracing the co-signers of the NPT, not those who refuse the treaty.What a messed up man and country...I say this as he panders to AIPAC and other Jewish groups that have been found to have spied on us. This is just too surreal to me. Comment by sharpinchitown on 6/02/08 at 3:22 pm McCain is a confounder. Obama will protect , Israelis from Israelis who want to maximize hatered. It is no fun living surrounded by revenge seeking people and relying on the USA to dole them out. A diamond cuts diamond===good begets good. Pacifiers win. Only idiots keep fighting.OBAMA 08. Comment by reeder on 6/02/08 at 3:39 pm of course john would say that - he has been an opportunist all along. i hope to one day never hear his name again. Comment by scobra on 6/02/08 at 3:56 pm
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