McCain in Jan. 2002: ‘Next up, Baghdad!’
McCain in Jan. 2002: ‘Next up, Baghdad!’
The New York Times runs a lengthy article today on how the 9/11 attacks contributed to Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) foreign policy, particulary his aggression towards Iraq. “A terrorist resides in Baghdad,” he said in Feb. 2002, adding, “A day of reckoning is approaching”:
Within a month he made clear his priority. “Very obviously Iraq is the first country,” he declared on CNN. By Jan. 2, Mr. McCain was on the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt in the Arabian Sea, yelling to a crowd of sailors and airmen: “Next up, Baghdad!” […]
“These networks are well-embedded in some of these countries,” Mr. McCain said on Sept. 12, listing Iraq, Iran and Syria as potential targets of United States pressure.
In written answers to the Times, McCain blamed “Iraq’s opacity under Saddam” for any misleading remarks he made about the threat. Weeks after 9/11, McCain told Larry King that he would have named Donald Rumsfeld and Colin Powell to a McCain cabinet. “Oh, yes, and Cheney,” McCain added, saying he would have offered Dick Cheney the vice presidency.
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He’s just saying what will please his masters.
Does anyone really think that the morons in front of the cameras and microphones are really in charge?
Yes, it is important to talk about what these people stand for.
Someday, if we want to see real change, we will actually have to talk about the folks that are behind the intellectually-challenged figureheads that distract from a meaningful dialog.
August 16th, 2008 at 7:38 pm“A day of reckoning is approaching”
That’s right Little Johnny. It’s called Election Day . . . and I reckon you’re going to get royally trounced.
August 16th, 2008 at 7:40 pmJohnnie McSame wants to be president so much he can taste it.
That scares me, and I’m fearless.
August 16th, 2008 at 7:42 pmMcDepends wants to be just like Bush; President Shit-For-Brains.
August 16th, 2008 at 7:48 pmHad McCain been elected president in 2000 wed still be in the exact same mess
August 16th, 2008 at 7:55 pmI’m sure someone has all this recorded. It’s just another ad begging to be made. Play him saying all those things and then say “John McCain wants you to think that he is not another Bush… what do you think?
Quick and easy.
August 16th, 2008 at 7:58 pmThis Times piece is a fresh bold steamy piece of horse dung propaganda.
August 16th, 2008 at 8:14 pmUnbelievable that 7 years later the Times is still duping their readership with the 9-11 = Iraq bull sh-t.
Absolutely unbelievable. This piece reads like a Hollywood plot outline, or a bad formulaic action novel!
One can only hope the American public accept this the way they accepted the Giuliani = 9-11 hero garbage!
Notice the Times webpage doesn’t allow comments.
Don’t count McCain out. I don’t want him to be the next president of the US, and I sincerely hope he won’t be, but a relatively untried young black man will have problems with the US electorate. Rather the US electorate will have problems with him.
Keep you fingers crossed and hope not too much mud sticks.
August 16th, 2008 at 8:22 pmThe NYT, as the nation’s leading propaganda tool, has no choice but to continue to “catapult the propaganda” about 9/11.
IT WAS AN INSIDE JOB!
But don’t take my word for it - take a look at what Morgan Reynolds, on of the original bush “dream team” members has to say.
Or what Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, people that actually build buildings like these, have to say.
Americans deserve to know the truth about 9/11.
The same political/economic interests that enabled the attacks and exploited them to undermine the US Constitution while implementing the neocon agenda will do whatever it takes to promote the lies.
Sadam had no connection with 9/11, but it was not masterminded by a sick man on a dyalisis machine in caves either.
The folks that told us an AWOL alcoholic/cocaine addict was presidential material, “won” the 2000 & 2004 elections, and that Sadam had WMD cannot be trusted now.
August 16th, 2008 at 8:30 pmTrigger happy, unpredictable, demented, temper mental grampy would be worse than Bush.
August 16th, 2008 at 8:45 pmAt least Bush settles down with his booze and (prescription?)drugs.
McCain appears better at picking wives than cabinet members.
August 16th, 2008 at 9:05 pmAnother Joe Says
Americans deserve to know the truth about 9/11.
We also need to know the truth about
* stolen elections
* lies up to the invasion of Iraq
* PNAC
* our stolen treasury
* stolen pensions
* downfall of the housing market
* Cheney’s secret energy meetings
So much more… but as long as we make it Jan 20,2009 without Executive Directive 51 becoming reality…. well, that is all I can ask for right now.
August 16th, 2008 at 9:06 pmWill the “media” push this story about McAttack?
Oops. What was I thinking?
August 16th, 2008 at 9:20 pmDoc Rock Says:
McCain appears better at picking wives than cabinet members.
Not really - took him 2 times and he had an affair while his wife was recovering in the hospital.
If you were a dem that is no longer running for national office, that would be a BIG story in the MSM - worthy of hours and hours of coverage that push other important events out of the news.
If you are the presumed republican nominee for president, having an affair and then leaving your wife in her times of need would be covered up and never mentioned.
August 16th, 2008 at 9:43 pmhe’s a crippled minded, lying repug.
Yuck, did anyone catch the interview with Rev. Warren?
What a pity.
Lies galore.
Damn. I missed Sen. Obama’s part.
August 16th, 2008 at 9:54 pmWrong again, old John McGeorgiaSlaughteredOssetians. A terrorist resides in the White House. His name is George Bush.
August 16th, 2008 at 10:12 pm.
VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: VINCENT BUGLIOSI: The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder
What does it make those that sat idly by observing and doing noting to stop the continued murder of our troop? Has Johnny McTorture been in that cheering section?
And I’m curious what the Senator McSpeakNoEvil has to say about the U.S. Officials that ordered TORTURE?
But then again, neither McSenior nor Status quObama will ever face a question from the media like THIS.
How very CONtrived of the insiders… NO?
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August 16th, 2008 at 10:18 pmAnother Joe@14
You have that right!
I had to laugh at the talking heads making a big deal of Edwards affair. Is his in jeopardy? His political career is over and such nonsense. I thought what about the repugs nominee, mcchimpy?
The liberal media are biased.
August 16th, 2008 at 10:19 pmWeeks after 9/11, McCain told Larry King that he would have named Donald Rumsfeld and Colin Powell to a McCain cabinet. “Oh, yes, and Cheney,” McCain added, saying he would have offered Dick Cheney the vice presidency.
Rumsfeld? The guy that was shaking hands with that evil dictator Saddam? And Cheney? The guy that was busy making deals with Saddam through the ’90s?!?
My, oh, my, that McSame shore dooooo know how ‘ta pick ‘em….
Cheers,
August 16th, 2008 at 10:28 pmwhat?!?
no live-blogging of the saddleback church mcPOW/obama talk show?
rick warren asked some good questions, the same questions, basically, for each man… just prefaced, set up, to each according to the desired and expected answers…
you’re gonna hear it - mcWAR kicked butt in that element…
HOO-RAH. BUMPER STICKER POLICY!
i think it was obvious mcTALKINGPOINTS was “prepared”, coached right on through that “cone of silence” as to how to respond.
imagine that…
August 16th, 2008 at 10:43 pmyou’re gonna hear it - mcWAR kicked butt in that element…
HOO-RAH. BUMPER STICKER POLICY!
When asked about what SC justices would he eliminate, he named them. But when asked why he went on a tangent and never answered the question. Of course he picked the most liberal judges.
mcchimy was lying threw his dentures.
I have to see Sen. Obama’s side.
August 16th, 2008 at 11:16 pmOMFG OMFG OMFG…
Not only is this story outrageous, it is hilarious…
McPain’s tongue is very far down Geo. W.’s throat. Truly, the Eddie Haskell of Presidential politics, my friends.
ha ha
August 16th, 2008 at 11:26 pmBy any chance is McCain a Compassionate Conservative who’ll be a Uniter not a Divider?
August 17th, 2008 at 12:46 amThe real story here is not McCain’s belligerence and flip attitude toward war. The real story is his stupidity and incompetence. Any one paying attention at the time should have understood that Iraq was simply the wrong stinkin’ country:
http://www.asecondlookatthesaudis.com
August 17th, 2008 at 1:42 am#17 Max-1
Great video.. thank you..I bookmarked it as it is a ray of hope I can cling onto.
August 17th, 2008 at 2:56 am‘Next up, Baghdad!’ –> Iraq war’
‘Bomb, bomb , bomb Iran’ –> Iran war
He has promised more wars after all.
August 17th, 2008 at 5:03 amGame of Life,
The Saddleback Interviews will be rebroadcast on c-span several times today (Sunday).
As for Sen. McCain… Frank Rich thinks the Senator is getting a free ride from the media:
As this fairy tale has it, the hero who survived the Hanoi Hilton has stood up as rebelliously in Washington as he did to his Vietnamese captors. He strenuously opposed the execution of the Iraq war; he slammed the president’s response to Katrina; he fought the “agents of intolerance” of the religious right; he crusaded against the G.O.P. House leader Tom DeLay, the criminal lobbyist Jack Abramoff and their coterie of influence-peddlers.
With the exception of McCain’s imprisonment in Vietnam, every aspect of this profile in courage is inaccurate or defunct.
http://www.nytimes.com/ 2008/ 08/ 17/ opinion/ 17rich.html?hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1218971465-z/ HGubfXU8fT7k0Bp/ SkKg
I think that’s about to change. This salvo in the NY Times is a start.
August 17th, 2008 at 7:15 amNYT is confident that McLoser will beat back the terrible old ‘KREMLIN’ (Russia’s mythic refuge).
August 17th, 2008 at 8:10 am. . . but none of them bothered to invite McCain to join their “cabinet.” If McCain had any whiff of shame he would not only distance himself from these neocon, he would repudiate them in public every chance he gets. Instead, he is shamelessly kissing their loser behinds.
August 17th, 2008 at 8:20 am