How come no one in the media ever reminds McCain of his 2010 Tweet where he declared withdrawal of Troops in Iraq was a "Victory" whenever McCain starts foaming at the mouth complaining that President Obama brought the "last US troops" home from Iraq?
I think John McCain is a liar. I've heard some people say he's just insane, but I think he both a liar and insane.
In 2010 John McCain was psyched that the "Last US Troops Leave Iraq" and he gave Bush credit for enabling the "Last US Troops Leave Iraq."
2014 McCain "anyone who declared the withdrawal from Iraq a success should be canned"
Earlier this year, John McCain blathered "
anyone who declares the withdrawl from Iraq a success should be canned."
The press quoted McCain's insane rant without saying that in 2010 John McCain tweeted and declared the withdrawal from Iraq was a "victory."
(sigh)
On Wednesday, John McCain was one rabid beast blasting President Obama for allowing the "Last US Troops Leave Iraq." McCain was on CNN and could barely control his anger.
MCCAIN: 'You [Jay Carney], in your role as a spokesperson, bragged about the fact that the last American combat troop had left Iraq. If we had left a residual force the situation would not be what it is today.'
Ummm ... John McCain, in his role as US Senator,
"bragged about the fact that the last American combat troop had left Iraq" and gave President Bush the credit.
Does the media have a some bizarre inability to retain factual information?
Just yesterday, CNN's White House Correspondent, Michelle Kosinski actually had to ask Josh Ernest "who was right" between Jay Carney and John McCain regaring the CNN interview.
KOSINKI: And maybe you heard on CNN last night your former boss get into it with Senator McCain. And even today on the Senate floor, we heard him saying that it was the Iraqis who wanted a residual force to stay there. If you heard the back-and-forth, who’s right in this?
"
who's right in this" What? Is she so inept at her job that she could not go through CNN historical footage and answer her own question and see McCain was, and still is, lying through his teeth?
Reporters fail every single time they forget factual history and fail every time they don't remind John McCain of his 2010 Tweet.
To answer Kosini's question, in the CNN interview John McCain lied, he told lots of lies.
In the interview with CNN, McCain's first lied about what Jay Carney had just said. Jay Carney made a statement of which John McCain lied and put completely different words in Jay Carney's mouth. That's what I call, reinventing real-time history.
SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN: Well, I think it was a very weak argument. By the way, I'm astounded that Mr. Carney should say that – that the Free Syrian army is now stronger. In fact, they’ve been badly, badly damaged.
JAY CARNEY: Well, that’s not what I said, Senator. If I could – if I could, sir, what I said is that we know a great deal more now about the opposition.
Here is what Jay Carney actually said, that McCain had lied about.
JAY CARNEY: And I think we as the United States through the last several years of being very careful about engaging with rebel groups and knowing exactly who they were and what their goals and beliefs are, and then providing assistance to them are in a better position now to assist them than we were in the past.
But, in McCain's world who needs facts? In response to Carney re-stating what he actually said, McCain told two lies back-to-back and said that no one ever suspected ISIS or al-Qaeda was merging with the Free Syrian Army and that President Obama did not want to arm the Free Syrian Rebels.
MCCAIN: Oh, come on, Jay, we knew all about them then. You just didn't choose to know. [becoming rabid] I was there in Syria. We knew them. Come on, you guys are the ones – it’s your boss was the one when the entire national security team wanted to arm and train them that he turned them down, Mr. Carney after a --
Facts on McCain's claim "we knew all about them."
In April 2013 there were reports that the Free Syrian Rebels were joining two "terrorist" groups, ISIS (al-Qaeda in Iraq) and Jabhat al-Nusra (which is also al-Qaeda)
The leader of the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, released a recorded audio message on the Internet, in which he announced that Jabhat al-Nusra was an extension of al-Qaeda in Iraq in Syria.. Al-Baghdadi said that Abu Mohammed al-Joulani, the leader of Jabhat al-Nusra, had been dispatched by the group along with a group of men to Syria to meet with pre-existing cells in the count.
As for McCain's other lie that President Obama "
turned down" arming the Free Syrian Rebels.
June 2012
New York Times reports CIA is vetting Syrian rebels before sending them arms
A small number of C.I.A. officers are operating secretly in southern Turkey, helping allies decide which Syrian opposition fighters across the border will receive arms to fight the Syrian government, according to American officials and Arab intelligence officers.
The C.I.A. officers have been in southern Turkey for several weeks, in part to help keep weapons out of the hands of fighters allied with Al Qaeda or other terrorist groups, one senior American official said.
In March 2013:
The New York Times
reported that President Obama starting arming Syrian rebels in early 2012.
With help from the C.I.A., Arab governments and Turkey have sharply increased their military aid to Syria’s opposition fighters in recent months, expanding a secret airlift of arms and equipment for the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, according to air traffic data, interviews with officials in several countries and the accounts of rebel commanders.
The airlift, which began on a small scale in early 2012 and continued intermittently through last fall, expanded into a steady and much heavier flow late last year, the data shows.
In July 2013:
USAToday
reported that a deal was done for U.S to ship arms to Free Syrian Rebels.
A deal reached in Congress to allow the United States to ship arms to Syrian rebels could spur more support from other nations, blunting the military gains of dictator Bashar Assad and preventing him from crushing the rebel movement.
Syrian rebels say the decision by U.S. lawmakers to go along with President Obama's plan announced weeks ago to arm their factions will give them an edge.
July 2013:
Washington Post
report Congressional panels approve arms aid to Syrian opposition
The agreement allows money already in the CIA’s budget to be reprogrammed for the Syria operation, a covert action that President Obama approved early last month. The infrastructure for the program, which also includes training, logistics and intelligence assistance — most of it based in Jordan — is already in place and the arms would begin to flow within the next several weeks.
McCain continued to lie his ass off and reinvent history
MCCAIN: Facts are stubborn things, Mr. Carney and that is, the entire national security team, including the Secretary of State, said we want to arm and train and equip these people and he [President Obama] made the unilateral decision to turn them down and the fact that they didn't lead a residual force in Iraq, overruling all of his military advisers, is the reason why we're facing ISIS today. So the facts are stubborn things in history and people ought to know them and now the President is saying, basically, that we are going to take certain actions, which I would favor, but to say that America is safer, and that the situation is very much like Yemen and Somalia shows me that the President really doesn't have a grasp for how serious the threat of ISIS is.
McCain must have been in a coma in most of 2013 when news reports were showing that the USA was sending arms to Free Syrian Rebels.
McCain's next lies included his warped, fictional imagination that Iraqi Government wanted the United States to leave a residual force in Iraq after 2011 and it was President Obama who did not want to. In this next transcript cut/paste, McCain's lies are so vast that I decided to underline McCain's lies.
CARNEY: Well, again, Senator, we're going to have to agree to disagree and I think on the question of the residual force, there was another player in that which was the Iraqi government. A.B., It was the fulfillment of the previous administration's withdrawal plan C, and it was also the fulfillment of the President's promise to withdraw from Iraq and not maintain a true presence, in perpetuity, which, I think, is pretty consistent with what the American people wanted and believed was the right approach.
MCCAIN: You know, Mr. Carney, you are again saying facts that are patently false. Fact is, because Lindsey Graham and I and Joe Lieberman, were in Baghdad. They [Iraq] wanted a residual force. The President has never made a statement during that or after that he wanted a residual force left behind. The Iraqis were ready to go. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee that the number cascaded down to 3,500. That was not sufficient to do anything but to defend themselves and you, in your role as a spokesperson, bragged about the fact that the last American combat troop had left Iraq. If we had left a residual force, the situation would not be what it is today and there would be a lot more –
Wow ... all those lies McCain spewed. I guess McCain, Graham and Lieberman were in bed in October 2011 when Iraqi PM Maliki said "no" to residual forces and "no" to immunity for US soldiers who would be part of the residual forces.
October 2011 news conference
Maliki: "The discussions over the number of trainers and the place of training stopped. Now that the issue of immunity was decided and that no immunity to be given, the withdrawal has started."
Here are the facts around the part of McCain's comment where McCain lied and falsely claimed President Obama did not ever want to leave a residual force of
more than 3,500 behind.
The LA Times reported President Obama wanted to leave 10,000 troops behind as a residual force.
The White House is prepared to keep as many as 10,000 U.S. troops in Iraq after the end of the year, amid growing concern that the planned pullout of virtually all remaining American forces would lead to intensified militant attacks, according to U.S. officials.
Keeping troops in Iraq after the deadline for their departure at the end of December would require agreement of Iraq's deeply divided government, which is far from certain ...
The Obama administration has been debating how large a force to propose leaving in Iraq. It made its proposal now in hopes of spurring a request from Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's government, and to give the Pentagon time to plan, the officials said.
Unless Iraq asks for a change in its 2008 agreement with the George W. Bush administration, only about 200 active-duty troops would remain as advisers after December, the officials said.
McCain just got more an more insane.
MCCAIN: – that’s absolutely false too and we didn’t need to go through the Iraqi parliament. All you had to do was have an agreement ... because we were on the ground.
Huh? Who does insane McCain think the "agreement" would have been with, if the Iraqi Parliament said no?
Jay Carney tried to stay polite and defuse McCain's insane anger, but all that did was cause McCain to get nuttier.
At one point, Carney got a 'zinger' in on John McCain, but John McCain was so pissed he did not pick up on Carney's zing.
CARNEY: Senator, I can posit with great respect for you that we can disagree on that--
MCCAIN: You can't. No, you can't, because you don't have the facts.
CARNEY: Sir, if I may--
MCCAIN: You don't have the facts, Mr. Carney. That is the problem.
CARNEY: Senator, I understand that you present the facts that you believe are true based on the argument that you have made for a long time--
MCCAIN: No, no, not I believe, they are true.
CARNEY: -- sir, that we should leave troops in Iraq in perpetuity. And that is just not what this president believes. And that is, you know, obviously he was elected president to fulfill what he believed was right for our country and right for our national security.
MCCAIN: -- right decision. That means it's a bad decision.
ZING! "
And that is, you know, obviously he was elected president to fulfill... "
That's right, insane McCain, the voters did not elect you. You and your "bomb, bomb, bomb, Iran" mindset were rejected by The People. The People saw that you were crazy when you said you wanted to leave US Troops in Iraq for 100 years.
From Mother Jones in 2008.
The United States military could stay in Iraq for "maybe a hundred years" and that "would be fine with me," John McCain told two hundred or so people at a town hall meeting in Derry, New Hampshire, on Thursday evening.
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After the event ended, I asked McCain about his "hundred years" comment, and he reaffirmed the remark, excitedly declaring that U.S. troops could be in Iraq for "a thousand years" or "a million years," as far as he was concerned.
And, The People saw that you were absolutely crazy when you picked Sarah Palin as your running mate.
You can lie John McCain, but your lies will be exposed on the internet and so will your 2010 tweet where you were proud that the "
2014 McCain "anyone who declared the withdrawal from Iraq a success should be canned"