On Meet the Press: McCain & Biden say "get other countries to help in Iraq

[glarius]

What seems to be forgotten is.....The other countries were against this war from the beginning. Why would they want to send troops there now to be killed? They seem to think all they have to do is ask and the world will come charging to the rescue!

[Jacobin]

1. Oh. Theymean the ones we just finished kicking in the nuts?

Are they gonna change the menu in the congressional restaurant to delete "freedom fries?"

Is Dumbfeld gonna go apologize to the Germans and beg them to send troops?

Yeah, right.

This fuck up is Smirk's Waterloo and he is going DOWN

[Cha]

14. ANd biden and mccain helped and it's on their fu8ked up heads,

too!

[Racenut20]

2. Going to have to share the spoils

[glarius]

3. I love the way McCain pointed out how desperate the situation is in Iraq

and how the administration had made all the wrong decisions about the number of troops to send etc...but being the loyal Republican ended up by saying "the American people will support Bush because he has been such a MORAL leader!"...What a joke!

[revcarol]

5. It's SO MORAL to waste young lives in an aggressive INVASION

and OCCUPATION on the basis of lies to the world.

GROW UP, MCCAIN. WE SEE HIM FOR THE IMMORAL SLIME HE IS.

[Cha]

15. Cause he hasn't had a blow job in the WHiteHouse? There

are other ways he can be an immoral shithead.

[prolesunited]

4. I think the UN and other countries

have signaled that they would be willing to help. Unlike the Bushistas, they are not petty thugs who do things just to harm their "enemies." They would be willing to see beyond our rhetoric to do what would be for the greater good.

The sticking point is that the US does not want to share any power or decision-making authority. They want others to come in and blindly support us.

Here's what Annan said last week:
"It is not excluded that the Council may decide to transform the operation into a UN-mandated, multinational force operating on the ground with other governments coming in," he said.

"It would imply not just burden-sharing but also sharing decisions and responsibility with the others. If that doesn't happen, I think it is going to be very difficult to get a second resolution that will satisfy everybody."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3174325.stm

[glarius]

6. Yes..I heard Annan say that....but does that necessarily mean that

many countries would want to send their troops there WHEN THEY WERE AGAINST THIS WAR?...That's what I wonder...The leaders of these countries remember how their citizens demonstrated by the millions against the war.

[revcarol]

7. Depends how financially strapped the individual country is...

what was it, $500,000 per Pole, I fergit?

We CAN buy mercenaries, with our tax money.

[mrbill]

8. Where did McCain come from all of a sudden????

is he kissing the evil empire's ass?

[glarius]

9. He and Biden just got back from "fact finding" in Iraq

They both were very definite about how desperate things are in Iraq but McCain was still gung ho for Bush.

[oneighty]

11. Somebody

in the Bush* outfit must "Got" the goods on poor old McCain.

The way he was trashed by the Bush* people in South Carolina

should have turned him to the other party.

I think. 180

[pansypoo53219]

13. sorry, McCain's

blood is entirely Republican and he refuses to see his party has been hijacked and he can't change it. He will support the Simian cause he's on his TEAM.

and i hope the UN stays out as this is the mess that Bush made and HE has to fix it THIS TIME.

[magnolia]

10. Great show...

...I loved the way Biden was just so perplexed about Bush not wanting other countries to join...he kept saying "why"..."I just don't get it". Personally...I think he knows EXACTLY why, but is trying to get the American people to start asking "why".

Even though other countries were against pre-emptive war, the rest of the free world is a lot smarter and more compassionate than what we have running our country. Now that we have made a complete mess of the situation, I'm sure they would definitely find it in their hearts to come in and help clean it up. It's not about helping us, it's about helping the Iraqi people.

[jamesinca]

12. Myers said in the first segment

He does not feel that catching Hussein will end the violence against U.S. troops. He is also sying that we have more troops to send even though we are stretched thin now. It just gets better with time.

[Kahuna]

16. The UN would do it if the they could took control of the mission.....

Of course that would take control of Iraq's oil out of the control of the U.S., so that is simply not an option.

Anybody with a brain knows what's going on there.

[Junkdrawer]

17. Biden: "they treat Iraq as if it were some kind of prize...

they don't wish to share". It was lost in the middle of the "let's fix Iraq with more troops" nonsense, but I thought it might be the beginning of a split in the hawk community.