False Premises in McCain’s Foreign Policy
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http://progressiveaccountability.org/2008/07/23/false-premises-in-mccain%e2%80%99s-foreign-policy/#more-55McCain Falsely Stated The Surge Caused The Anbar AwakeningMcCain Stated The Surge “Began The Anbar Awakening.” During an interview on CBS’s “Evening News,” Katie Couric asked John McCain about Obama’s assertion that improved security conditions in Iraq were the result of numerous factors, not merely the surge. McCain said, “Colonel McFarland was contacted by one of the major Sunni sheiks. Because of the surge we were able to go out and protect that sheik and others. And it began the Anbar awakening. I mean, that’s just a matter of history. Thanks to General Petraeus, our leadership, and the sacrifice of brave young Americans. I mean, to deny that their sacrifice didn’t make possible the success of the surge in Iraq, I think, does a great disservice to young men and women who are serving and have sacrificed.” {CBS, “Evening News,”}
* The Anbar Awakening Came Before The Surge. As Colin Kahl noted in Foreign Affairs, “The Awakening began in Anbar Province more than a year before the surge and took off in the summer and fall of 2006 in Ramadi and elsewhere, long before extra U.S. forces started flowing into Iraq in February and March of 2007.” {Foreign Affairs, July/August 2008}
* General McFarland Described The Anbar Awakening In September 2006. According to the National Security Network’s Ilan Goldenberg, “The surge wasn’t even announced until a few months after the Anbar Awakening… Colonel MacFarland explaining the Anbar Awakening to Pam Hess of UPI, on September 29 2006. That would be almost four months before the President even announced the surge. Petraeus wasn’t even in Iraq yet.” {National Security Network, 7/22/08}
FLASHBACK: McCain Repeated Bush Administration Misrepresentations In Lead Up To Iraq WarMcCain Erroneously Downplayed Violence In IraqMcCain Repeatedly Stated That Shiite Iran Was Training Sunni Al Qaeda MembersMcCain Wrongly Substituted Iraq for AfghanistanIncorrectly Saying US Has No Status Of Forces Agreement With BosniaMcCain Repeatedly Mentioned Defunct Czechoslovakia