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flpoljunkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 02:50 PM
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John McCain, today: "I know how to win wars."
Really, now? And, which war was it that you 'won?'

Has anyone in the 'lap dog' media commented how ridiculous this brazen assertion by John McCain is--let alone bother to inform us that McCain's major foreign policy adviser is neocon Randy Scheunemann, President of the Committee to Liberate Iraq, and founding PNAC board member. Or, that McCain was a Co-Chair of the CLI, along with his good buddy, honorary Co-Chair, Joe Lieberman.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/06/17/randy_scheunemann_mccain_advis.html

If they have, I confess I missed it.
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 02:51 PM
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1. Then why don't you tell us how, John?
Instead of waiting to make you president before telling us your secret way to win the war?
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livetohike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 02:51 PM
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2. Interesting. Did he learn how to win wars while graduating
near the bottom of his class at the Academy??? Such an idiot.
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 02:52 PM
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3. Maybe the Punic Wars.
He's old enough.
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mcctatas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 02:54 PM
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4. I know this will not earn me any friends, but I am sick of tiptoeing
around McCains military service...

Since when is being tortured as a POW a strategy for winning wars? That would be like a passenger on the Titanic saying "I know how to design transatlantic luxury liners"; it's not their fault the ship went down, it's not disrespectful of their suffering, but it is in fact bullshit!
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NatBurner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 02:59 PM
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6. let it out
don't you feel better?

personally, i've been calling these so-called credentials a bunch of manufactured bullmess for a while now, and my heart feels free :)
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mcctatas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 09:11 PM
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20. It actually does make me feel better!
Cathartic and cleansing, better than an enema any day (or so I am assuming)...
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jaysunb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 02:56 PM
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5. Like in the card game ? or video game
Evidently that's what he means.....:evilfrown:
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indepat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 03:08 PM
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7. If only McShame knew how to win the peace by not rattling the saber and maybe starting an illegal
war of aggression. :shrug: :D
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 03:12 PM
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8. Which explains our remarkable victory in Vietnam.
Oh, wait...

:eyes:
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harun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 03:12 PM
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9. How bout the MSM asks him to define "winning" a war?
Occupying it for 100 years?
Making the people submit to the will of a foreign power?
Control the assets?
Install puppets that do your bidding?
Kill everyone?
Imprison everyone?
Loot the country?
Have permanent bases?
etc.

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JaneQPublic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 03:27 PM
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10. McCain "won" the Vietnam war by crashing 5 planes and getting captured (n/t)
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WinkyDink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 03:43 PM
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11. Maybe so. But how about Illegal Invasions with War Crimes?
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 04:24 PM
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12. And the North Vietnamese Army thanks him for his contributions
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anonymous171 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 04:26 PM
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13. McCain thinks that we lost Vietnam because of a drop in public opinion
Not because of casualties or anything. Public fucking Opinion.
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flpoljunkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 05:59 PM
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16. And that, 'my friends,' is truly delusional.
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TexasObserver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 05:51 PM
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14. Really John?! Which war was it you knew how to win?
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ChimpersMcSmirkers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 05:58 PM
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15. Yeah I heard this shit on NPR... What a bunch of BS..Which war did he win? Vietnam?
Oh, that's right, none. F*cking McLiar.
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SurfingAtWork Donating Member (788 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 06:01 PM
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17. Replace "win wars" with "get airplanes I fly shot down"
and I couldn't agree with him more.
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Jeff In Milwaukee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 06:02 PM
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18. Beating your grandchildren at "Risk" doesn't count, asswipe...
nt
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 06:06 PM
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19. Only a truly desperate candidate would make such a stupid statement
Just like Bush...he is talking down to us...him expecting we swallow his shit

The man has his neurons in a bunch...all mixed up
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JoFerret Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 09:12 PM
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21. Panama
Grenada?
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grantcart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-15-08 10:11 PM
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22. easy deal - and when he gets too pissed off and frustrated as president he will do it too
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