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Showing Original Post only (View all)The McCain BACK-PEDDLE on Benghazi BEGINS [View all]
JOHN McEGG-ON-FACE NEEDS TO PUBLICLY APOLOGIZE TO SUSAN RICE!!
The question we must ask ourselves is what next? Oh, but Sunday looms! We cant have Sunday shows with McCain carrying neo-con water for the hawks. Any bets on whether the media will ask Senator McCain upon what evidence he based his allegations that the administration lied to the public on purpose? A statement that was in line with the unclassified (important note there that the Senator may wish to ponder) assessment of the intelligence communities is not a lie. New information is not a lie or a cover up.
The cover up would be if we were not told about the new information.
The cover up would be if we were not told about the new information.
Asked about Senator Reids brutal letter to him in which Reid denied McCains calls to head a special committee to investigate Benghazi, McCain said at a press conference at the Halifax International Security Forum, Im concerned about four Americans who died. Their families need to know the circumstances, why it happened, how it happened, and where responsibility lies. Thats all. Thats all that were seeking. Were not seeing a confrontation with anyone. Were not trying to quote take on anyone.
McCain claims that he knew better than the entire intelligence community (also known in Republican circles as the administration now) and thus he is not taking back his criticism of Susan Rice. The Senator said, No, because I knew it was a terrorist attack from the beginning. People dont go to spontaneous demonstrations with mortars and RPGs. To date, no one has asked McCain how he can know with such certainty what happened in Benghazi when he was not there, and when he clearly did not read the intelligence reports sent to him that Rice based her comments on, or attend the briefing in which he could have more fully informed himself.
In McCain world, it was simple; he knew because there were mortars and RPGs there. And yet, it was not so simple. Shocking, I know. There were actually two attacks, and the intelligence community seems to think at this point that they may have been two separate attacks perhaps one spontaneous and one planned or some combo thereof. Furthermore, Petraeus suggested that Rices talking points were the unclassified version of what happened, something McCain should have grasped for obvious reasons since he claims to be an expert at national security. Perhaps he expected us to send a cable to the suspects on day one. But never mind McCains big talk on RPGs (you have to feel for the guy, clinging to his days as The Military Guy), what is really important here is that he now says he is not seeking a confrontation with anyone. From lies and calling for a Watergate-esque investigation to Were not trying to quote take on anyone, McCain is backpedaling. Not so fast, Senator.
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Yes, McCain owes Susan Rice an apology and so do many other GOPers and also FoxNews too. n/t
Tx4obama
Nov 2012
#1
Well it looks like John McCain is an expert mind-reader and should be sent to Libya to investigate.
Michigan Alum
Nov 2012
#8
McCain's real problem with Rice is she called him out for his flak jacketed Baghdad
BeyondGeography
Nov 2012
#11
I think Palin should pick McCain for her VP when she runs for Prez in '16
struggle4progress
Nov 2012
#13
I was updating my post when you responded and you may not have seen it. I agree
ChisolmTrailDem
Nov 2012
#17
Mcdumbass is only doing this because he will no longer be a "ranking member"
BumRushDaShow
Nov 2012
#20