McCAIN: I happen to be one who admires SCOOTER LIBBY

[Rosa Luxemburg]

McCain has been palling around with Scooter Libby who was indicted on charges of deception regarding the CIA leak case.

In June 2007, after Libby heard the verdict, John McCain defended Libby’s character and made the following statement regarding his prospects for an appeal (which Libby eventually lost anyway):

“I think that you can make a case that he was singled out unfairly. I think that the appeals process goes forward. I happen to be one who admires Scooter Libby. I think he was a dedicated servant.”

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2008/05/more-mclellan-r.html


and John McCain's role in the WMD cover up

1998 - McCain was a co-sponsor of the Iraq Liberation Act that led to the creation of a false intelligence factory that replaced CIA Iraq reporting. He led charges in the Senate about Iraqi WMD programs that U.S. intelligence was reporting didn’t exist.

2001-2003 - Using $100 million allocated by the Act cosponsored by McCain, Ahmed Chalabi’s I.N.C. generated the false intelligence about nonexistent mobile bioweapons labs cited as part of the case for the Iraq invasion. I.N.C. Chalabi’s group was paid $335,000 a month in the lead-up to the Iraq war to gather intelligence.

2003 - McCain and four other Republican Senators made an appeal to Bush to “personally clear the bureaucratic roadblocks within the State Department” that stood in the way of even more funding for the I.N.C. McCain acted as a character witness for Chalabi, stating “He’s a patriot who has the best interests of his country at heart.”

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0806/S00095.htm

[AspenRose]

1. Surprise surprise

:eyes:

[mokawanis]

2. Palling around with criminals is he?

How smart of McCain too remind us of another connection to the disastrous shrub admin.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

3. Can you imagine if the voters knew the real John McCain!