Comments on: Team McCain Conference Call: Iraq

By: oakpack

oakpack — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:36:39 +0000

Larraby posted earlier that “McCain needs to take the gloves off”. I totally agree. Why not take one of those “secret” flights over to Iraq and publicly call out Obama for one of those “anywhere, anytime” debates in one of Saddam’s former palaces. Bring FNC along for the BATTLE IN BAGDAD. It would be GREAT pr for Mav, and the Chitown Coward would never show up.

By: drjohn

drjohn — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:58:13 +0000

Obama will continue to massage history until someone sticks his feet in the fire. Liberals accept lies as long as they are uttered by the right party.

By: Dawnsblood

Dawnsblood — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:39:31 +0000

OK fine, but I would like to know what kind of weapon Ms. Lindsey carries when he is in Iraq MB4 on July 14, 2008 at 1:40 PM

A Beretta pistol, if you believe the Washington Post.

By: Valiant

Valiant — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:32:47 +0000

Team McCain Conference Call

There is no “team” in McCain.

By: db

db — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:02:47 +0000

OK fine, but I would like to know what kind of weapon Msr. Lindsey carries when he is in Iraq

MB4 on July 14, 2008 at 1:40 PM

Why? You want to get one just like it?

By: right2bright

right2bright — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:40:59 +0000

McCain has allowed his thoughts on most all of the subject to be aired nationally.
He has been the only one of the two candidates to define his views, and further define the complex ones.
He knows that his distractors will hunt through the 20+ years of speeches, votes, and decisions to find some discrepancy (that’s what the bloggers on this site do), and then blow it out of proportion (you saw it with Graham and a desperate anti-McCain poster finally hinted he was just a “will” writer).
Meanwhile, he builds goodwill with the electorate, and infuriates the MDS’rs with honesty. Something they (MDS) have a difficult time adjusting to…being honest.

By: MB4

MB4 — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:40:00 +0000

Most servicepersons in Iraq carry some sort of weapon, even the lawyers.

Squid Shark on July 14, 2008 at 1:19 PM

OK fine, but I would like to know what kind of weapon Ms. Lindsey carries when he is in Iraq

By: Vincenzo

Vincenzo — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:39:45 +0000

ROFL!!! You owe me a new keyboard! (still laughing…)

dominigan on July 14, 2008 at 1:38 PM

It’s the least, and I mean least, I can do.

By: dominigan

dominigan — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:38:07 +0000

In other news, Iran launched more missiles: http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k77/tundra_cool/missilies.jpg Vincenzo on July 14, 2008 at 12:15 PM

ROFL!!! You owe me a new keyboard! (still laughing...)

By: Steve Z

Steve Z — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:21:00 +0000

I’m not crazy about Senator Graham’s positions on immigration, but he did a good job speaking for McCain on the Iraq issue. The rebuttal about Obama not bothering to hold a meeting of his subcommittee was a good one. I’d like to hear McCain’s specifics about Afghanistan “later this week”, but Graham was wise in not divulging them ahead of time, which could have let the press publicize runaway headlines about something that might have been off-message.

What was missing here was a criticism of Obama’s “judgment to lead” slogan, with a comment that following Obama’s judgment would have led to disaster in Iraq.

By: Squid Shark

Squid Shark — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:20:35 +0000

I heard somewhere that he did a lot of work making out wills.

This is a big hunk of in-theatre day-to-day legal ops.

By: Squid Shark

Squid Shark — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:19:27 +0000

MB4 on July 14, 2008 at 1:01 PM

Most servicepersons in Iraq carry some sort of weapon, even the lawyers.

By: NoDonkey

NoDonkey — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:17:51 +0000

Obama has no business running for President, he shouldn’t even be in the Senate. He is so willfully ignorant on so many fronts that he’s twice surrounded.

To win the nomination, he had two parrot the idiocies screeching out of the beaks of the lunatic left.

Now he’s got to fly back from Loonytown to Normalville.

And since he’s so woefully inexperienced in life, he’s having a difficult time of it.

It’s really unbelievably tragic that this dope is where he is. If he were truly as smart as everyone says he is, he would realize he is completely out of his element.

By: snaggletoothie

snaggletoothie — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:08:53 +0000

Democrat opposition to this war is nothing new. And I’m not referring to Viet Nam. I watched some of Ken Burn’s Civil War last night. Union troops had to rush from the battlefield at Gettysburg to put down Democrats rioting in NYC. New York City wanted to be an “open” city and not be a part of the war effort.

By: BigD

BigD — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:08:44 +0000

Bush today lifted a ban on offshore drilling, the mortgage crises takes a new, taxpayer-funded turn, and McCain is AWOL while his campaign has Lindsey Graham out there talking about Iraq. Okay. Sounds like a strategy to me.

As an aside, I hope that Phil Gramm told McCain to shove his campaign right up his rear end. I also haven’t seen Mitt (my guy) around much, and I hope that all of our preferred Republican candidates have realized that McCain is a backward disaster and that they will do better by avoiding him.

By: byteshredder

byteshredder — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:06:57 +0000

Team McCain Conference Call: Iraq

Yes, the McCain strategy of coming home winners, vs. the Harry Reid, Dick Durbin, Nancy Pelosi, and of course, the Messiah’s desire to surrender.

By: MayBee

MayBee — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:05:41 +0000

New York Times: Things deteriorating in Afghanistan because of the distraction of Iraq? — We got Iraq wrong initially because we didn’t have enough troops there. In Afghanistan, NATO is in charge, and the member states have been slow to meet their pledges. You can’t complain about Bush’s supposed unilateralism on one hand and then complain that we worked through a multilateral organization on the other.

Good answer, Team McCain.

Mort: McCain has referred to the Korea model for Iraq

As I have heard him say it, he has never called for this model. He has only ever said the American people wouldn’t be upset with it. Somehow, that has been translated into his long term plan for Iraq. It isn’t, Mort.

By: MB4

MB4 — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:01:02 +0000

The lawyers still carry guns and deal with the deatinees and ROE.

Squid Shark on July 14, 2008 at 12:49 PM

So are you saying that Ms. Lindsey carries a gun (what kind?) and deals with detainees?

I think Ms. Lindsay’s main JAG work has been drug cases.

Wethal on July 14, 2008 at 12:51 PM

I heard somewhere that he did a lot of work making out wills.

By: Squid Shark

Squid Shark — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:58:19 +0000

Possibly,
Alot of the lawyers are involved in detainee stuff.

I think Sen Grahm is a Mil Judge by billet, but I could be wrong.

By: Wethal

Wethal — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:51:17 +0000

Hasn’t Ms. Lindsay’s main job in the military (Air Force Reserve) been as a lawyer?

MB4 on July 14, 2008 at 12:44 PM
The lawyers still carry guns and deal with the deatinees and ROE.

The Naval and Air Force Lawyers are the largest representatives from both of their branches in Iraq. (Along with Logistics/Supply bubbas)

Squid Shark on July 14, 2008 at 12:49 PM

I think Ms. Lindsay’s main JAG work has been drug cases.

By: Squid Shark

Squid Shark — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:50:04 +0000

What about Obama saying he is embarassed by American tourists in Europe?

Thats not uncommon, Americans embarrass me in Europe too.

By: Squid Shark

Squid Shark — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:49:08 +0000

Hasn’t Ms. Lindsay’s main job in the military (Air Force Reserve) been as a lawyer?

MB4 on July 14, 2008 at 12:44 PM

The lawyers still carry guns and deal with the deatinees and ROE.

The Naval and Air Force Lawyers are the largest representatives from both of their branches in Iraq. (Along with Logistics/Supply bubbas)

By: MB4

MB4 — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:44:58 +0000

He is the right person to talk about Iraq since he is the only person who has been over there as both as Senator and a Servicemember.

Squid Shark on July 14, 2008 at 12:24 PM

Hasn’t Ms. Lindsay’s main job in the military (Air Force Reserve) been as a lawyer?

By: Larraby

Larraby — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:42:41 +0000

The McCain team has to take the gloves off. This constant apologies for any criticism of Obama is getting a bit much. Why not mention that Obama is against making English even a national language and Obama saying that we should be a bilingual nation? What about Obama saying he is embarassed by American tourists in Europe? What about Obama opposing the death penalty when he was a state senator in Illinois? McCain should say that under the Obama plan, if Osama Ben Laden is captured, Obama would see to it that Ben Laden gets a jury trial in New York City (the most liberal place fo find jury members), that Obama would see to it that Ben Laden gets the best lawyers, the best jury consultants, the best expert witnesses and the best appellate lawyers. McCain could have a field day on the Ben Laden issue alone if McCain’s campaign advisors weren’t all such wimps.

By: AZCoyote

AZCoyote — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:41:14 +0000

In Afghanistan, NATO is in charge, and the member states have been slow to meet their pledges. You can’t complain about Bush’s supposed unilateralism on one hand and then complain that we worked through a multilateral organization on the other.

They can’t complain about that . . . but you know they will. If things are going bad in Afghanistan, it has to be the U.S.’s fault somehow, even if NATO is in charge there, because every problem in the world can always be traced back to us.