McCain Says President Should Talk More About Iraq

By: John Bentley
Topics: John McCain

(CBS)

From CBS News' John Bentley:

While campaigning and raising money in the swing state of Florida today, John McCain told the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors & Press Association that whoever becomes president needs to do a better job of keeping the American public informed about the Iraq war. "If I were president, I'd be holding a briefing once a week about Iraq," he said. "Even if it was only carried on C-SPAN."

His comments for the assembled journalists were somewhat different than the remarks he gives while stumping in front of voters. While there was nothing contradictory in his remarks, he only mentioned Barack Obama once – in an aside about how Obama voted for the farm bill – but did not criticize his Democratic opponent directly at all during his talk today. That's in direct contrast to his speeches over the past couple of days, where he has repeatedly attacked Obama over wanting to withdraw troops from Iraq and his willingness to meet with leaders of rogue countries.

McCain is also trolling for donations in Florida. He has one fundraiser planned for tonight and two tomorrow morning, and apparently the Republican wallets are starting to open up. He raised $21.5 million in May, his best fund-raising month ever, and will soon report having $31.5 million cash-on-hand.

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by mattcat25 June 6, 2008 1:09 PM EDT: George Bush and Richard Cheney have invaded and occupied the sovereign nation of Iraq under false pretense. The plan was to have the new hand-puppet parliament pass a long term oil production bill that would turn Iraq%u2019s oil over to a few multinational corporations, which in turn would sell the oil to the United States at its current over inflated price.

The Iraqis do not want to turn their oil over to foreign private multinational corporations, they don%u2019t want the United States to maintain and occupy their country for the next 100 years. John McCain is saying that he will use the small battles (that have been created) each week to lever his political position by showing the American People small progresses for the $12 Billion Dollars spent.

Perpetual war, weekly propaganda reports, and $Billions of Dollars being diverted to private multinational corporations (with un-taxable bank accounts in Dubai). This sounds to me very much like George Orwell%u2019s novel 1984 where the war never ends and the people are forced into an authoritarian existence.; Reply to this comment


by shingles1 June 6, 2008 4:27 AM EDT: I wonder what McCain would say about these two items:

1. A majority of the Iraqi parliament has written to Congress rejecting a long-term security deal with Washington if it is not linked to a requirement that U.S. forces leave, a U.S. lawmaker said on Wednesday.

2. The US is holding hostage some $50bn of Iraq''s money in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to pressure the Iraqi government into signing an agreement seen by many Iraqis as prolonging the US occupation indefinitely, according to information leaked to The Independent.

Of course, since the "liberal" press is ignoring these two recent news items, I suppose it doesn''t matter. And then once the Parliament has been blackmailed into signing this agreement and violence starts to flares up again, we''ll all wonder why.; Reply to this comment