Surprise, Surprise, Surprise: "McCain doubts Bush lied on intelligence"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

McCain doubts Bush lied on intelligence

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said Sunday he supports President Bush and doesn't think he lied about Iraq intelligence.

But -- speaking on CBS' "Face the Nation" -- McCain called pre-war intelligence a "colossal" failure" and rejected the president's claim on Friday that criticism of the war is bad for the troops. McCain said criticism is "a very legitimate aspect of American life."

He called for more engagement in Iraq with more focus on economic and political stability instead of war as a way to stop the insurgents' momentum.

McCain said he wanted to meet with Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney to work out a compromise on their opposition to his proposed legislation to outlaw torture. McCain -- a prisoner of war in Vietnam -- said torture doesn't work. A candidate for president in 2000, McCain said he will wait until after the 2006 elections to decide whether he'll run for the White House in 2008.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20051113-17261400-bc-us-facethenation-mccain.xml

[Arkana]

1. Captain Mealymouth strikes again.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. Isn't there some sort of psych test that can be given to our

selected officials to definitively prove that they are a few cards short of a full deck?? I mean, shouldn't they have to prove their sanity?? I know, I know... we'd lose a lot of them if it were a requirement for holding office... but I think we might all be safer if this was the way it was.

[NanceGreggs]

3. And I think McCain LIED when he said that!

McCain knows, better than anyone, what the Bushites did to him -- and, more importantly -- his family.

But he shilled for Bush anyway in 2004 -- just another Judas Goat, leading the sheeple to the slaughterhouse.

[many a good man]

4. I'd hire McCain for doorknob polisher

but never for President of the United States.

[Martin Eden]

5. If Bush didn't lie ...

... it's because he believed what he said.

Personally, I find delusion much scarier than dishonesty in someone with their finger on the button.

[jimshoes]

6. Personally I think

he ordered his people to give him only intel that supported his predisposition to start a war with Iraq. That way he can lie with a straight face. The game was rigged from the outset.

[Disturbed]

7. John McCain, Hypocrite

John McCain, Hypocrite
by Doug Ireland

John McCain, the media's darling, has found a clever way around his own campaign finance reform law to take big corporate bucks in furtherance of his political ambitions while carrying water for the corporate mammoth providing the dough. But the national press is ignoring the story.


The Associated Press first ran the story of John McCain's odorous but lucrative Senatorial service to the communications giant Cablevision on the afternoon of March 7. But, while some local papers in McCain's home state (like the East Valley Tribune) have run the story, nothing has as yet made it into the print editions of the New York Times, the L.A. Times, the Washington Post, or any of the half-dozen other big city dailies I checked (although, if one searches the hundreds of AP stories available on the Post's website on its Politics page by clicking on "Latest Wire Reports," one can find it there--but how many readers would bother to do that?) One notable exception: the Kansas City Star.


Here's what the AP's investigation found:


McCain repeatedly intervened on behalf of a policy Cablevision favored -- one which "congressional and private studies conclude could make cable more expensive" -- while his chief political adviser, Rick Davis (who's masterminding McCain's probable '08 presidential rerun) solicited $200,000 in contributions from Cablevision to an institute that promotes McCain and pays Davis a $110,000 annual salary.


The Reform Institute was set up to promote McCain and his issues--especially campaign finance reform, embodied in the famous McCain-Feingold law. This Institute is "a tax-exempt group that touts McCain's views and has showcased him at events since his unsuccessful 2000 presidential campaign," and it "often uses the senator's name in press releases and fund-raising letters and includes him at press conferences," the AP says. And, of course, it provides a cushy sinecure with no heavy lifting for McCain's main man, Davis, as he prepares the pontificating Senator's next presidential run. Cablevision's contributions account for a whopping 15% of the Institute's budget.


http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0309-35.htm

[Vickers]

8. 'McCain called pre-war intelligence a "colossal" failure'

Yes, if we would've had an intelligent President, we wouldn't be in this fucking mess.

[Garbo 2004]

9. McCain's a master of having his cake and eating it too. He gets points

with some by criticizing the Bush Administration and yet at the same time supports the Administration on critical points. Thus he simultaneously plays the dual role of "maverick" and "good soldier."