Tuesday
01Apr2008
McCain: Obama Has No Experience or Background on Military Issues
Tuesday, April 1, 2008 at 11:25PM Both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have exploited John McCain’s statement that the U.S. could be in Iraq for 100 years for all he cares, but Iraq was measured against U.S. presence that still exists today in South Korea, Japan, Italy, Germany, Britain, Kuwait and other countries. Of course, the U.S. is not at war with those countries but maintains a presence in them.
I like John McCain more and more each day. He said that so kindly.
Of course, McCain will only spend 4-8 years in the White House, not 100, so it’s a moot point anyway.
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I think Obama wants to pull the military out of the Middle East and start a dialogue with Iran, N Korea and whoever else does not like the US. I believe that is his policy. He may change it – as most politicians on Capitol Hill have done in the past.
Its amazing how the left has just dropped all of the "Chicken Hawk" comments. Apparently its okay for Senator Obama to send troops into parts of Pakistan and Afghanitsan even though he has no military experience.
God help us if we get H or O in there. I see the military fleeing the Whitehouse as fast as they can get calls into DA for transfers and spite the war going on, those that lived through Clinton 1 that are still in will be running for retirement. Anyone that heard McCain's statement of 100 yrs that had 2 brain cells rubbing together knew what he meant.
Bush and Cheney were serial draft dodgers, and yet ya'll seem to think them military geniuses. Don't look now, but your hypocrisy is showing.
The "Bush was a draft dodger" myth has been smashed to smitherines that ended in Dan Rather's forced retirement. I'm not sure about Cheney, but either way he's not the CinC. In any event, it would have to be better than Bill Clinton's "I loathe the military" letter to dodge the draft.
But this is McCain, not Cheney, so I'm not sure what relevance your comment has.
But this is McCain, not Cheney, so I'm not sure what relevance your comment has.
he smiles, amy, you be far too kind with your words. there is no relevance and he knows it. nothing has been exposed yet that they can attack McCain on so they are trying to change the issue by attacking Bush and Cheney. as for draft dodgers, they were the ones who fled to Canada when their number was picked to avoid prosecution. and i would argue that even they acted more honorably than the likes of John Kerry.
Griper, its a shell game sometimes.
Obama literally has no experience to speak of. I hope McCain will continue to hammer home this issue about Obama as often as he has a mic in front of his face.
Thanks, Amy...
AubreyJ.........
grumpy,
It happens to be 2008.
Yes verdi, it's 2008. The last 5 years have been a marvel of civilian military genius at $5,000.00 a second.
What ya'll should be arguing, is that Obama's lack of military experience is dangerous because of the disaster that has been handed us by the chickenhawks of this administration. That's a much better argument going into an election where the incumbent has an approval rating in the mid 30s.
No?
no, by the way is Obmama must count as a chickenhawk considering his Afghan policy.
"Yes verdi, it's 2008. The last 5 years have been a marvel of civilian military genius at $5,000.00 a second."
here i always thought elections were about the future not the past. apparently you can't put up an argument for the future. so you must rely on demonizing the past. one hell of an argument.
Grumpy,
You know, Senator Obama mentioned the other day about keeping a strike force in Iraq, I presume to deal with Jihadists. So lets see, troops in Iraq, Afghanistan, and "pursuing" into Pakistan. Now you tell me, does that make the Senator a chickenhawk?
Griper,
apparently the current democrat primary debacle is too much for some democrats so they revel in their Bush derangement syndrome.
I don't know, getting shot down and signing a confession is not something that would be a great military record.
Mudkitty that is such a inappropriate response to both a war veteran, POW and a hero If you knew anything about the military you wouldn't dream of writing what you did. Everyone, no matter how strong you are, has a breaking point under torture. Get back to the topic at hand and try to come up with a facts that would convince anyone in their right mind that loves this country and is a hard worker that a democratic president would be better for the country. Good luck.
Obama has no experience so much so that even democratic leader say so. He is a junior senator that has not clue on international relations or military tactics.
Also, it is comical to hear the democrats to blame everything on President Bush. If everyone would remember both sides of the political line voted to go into Iraq. When things start getting tough democrats want to tuck tail and run and blame a conservative for what happens. Don't forget we defeated the largest military force in the middle east in 21 days. What happened after that with the insurgents was unpredictable. It will get better we just have to quote 41 "stay the course".