McCain lied about having voted against Reagan's placement of troops in Lebanon.

[kpete]

In the comments, Craig of Donkey Path says McCain lied about having voted against Reagan's placement of troops in Lebanon. He's right. According to the Washington Post's Glenn Kessler:

McCain seriously mistated his vote concerning the marines in Lebanon. He said that when he went into Congress in 1983, he voted against deploying them in Beirut. The Marines went in Lebanon in 1982, before McCain came to Congress. The vote came up a year into their deployment, when the Marines had already suffered 54 casualties. What McCain voted against was a measure to invoke the War Powers Act and to authorize the deployment of U.S. Marines in Lebanon for an additional 18 months. The measure passed 270-161, with 26 other Republicans (including McCain) and 134 Democrats voting against it.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/09/debate_live_fact_check_starts.html

[Frisbee]

1. Hell, he lies about nearly everything...

[firedupdem]

2. I wish the moderator had a buzzer he could ring for every lie that fucker told n/t

[liberalmuse]

3. I was wondering if Reagan was still dead.

McCain brought him up a few times. WTF?