McCain: I'd Have Been 'Reluctant' To Start Iraq War If I Won In 2000

[Ishmael]

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said Thursday that he probably would have hesitated to send U.S. troops into Iraq if he had been elected President in 2000.

“You’ll find this surprising, but I think I would’ve been more reluctant to commit American troops,” McCain told CNN’s Jake Tapper and National Journal's Ron Fournier at an event Thursday in Washington.

That does sound like a change of position in light of McCain's vote to authorize the use of force in Iraq and his vocal support of the 2007 troop surge. McCain also criticized the Obama administration last month for not leaving behind a residual force in 2011 that could have deterred Islamist militants who were taking over key Iraqi cities.

“I think I would have (voted the same way), but I think I would have challenged the evidence with greater scrutiny,” McCain explained, as quoted by CNN. “I think that with my background with the military and knowledge of national security with these issues that I hope that I would have been able to see through the evidence that was presented at the time.”

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Yep. Uh huh. Sure John!

 

[Bukyanagandi]

Jamaa huyu ni msanii sana, anapenda vita kweli kweli - tangu alipotekwa huko Vietnam kwenye miaka ya 1960s, mara zote uonekana kama mtu mwenye hulka za kutaka kulipiza kisasi kutokana na mateso aliyo yapata alipo kuwa mahabusu Vietnam ya kasikazini - haya mambo ya kusema eti alikuwa hapendi vita ipiganwe mashariki ya kati (IRAQ) hiyo ni hadaa tupu, yeye ndiye alikuwa anakwenda kumsema sema Saddam Hussein kwenye vyombo vya habari kila kukicha akishirikiana na Chenney na Codi RICE - jamaa hawa ni ma Neocon.

Siku za hivi karibuni McCain alikuwa anakwenda nchini Ukraine mara kwa mara kuwachochea watu wafanye fujo, anasema sema vibaya Putin na kutoa lawama zisizo na kichwa wala miguu, kawachochoe Wa Ukraine mpaka wakamtoa Raisi aliye kuwa amechaguliwa kidemokrasia! Kisa eti "Raisi huyo anashirikiana sana na URUSI!!"

Anacho taka yeye ni URUSI izungukwe na members wa NATO na Merikani waweke Military Bases kwenye baadhi ya nchi za Ulaya ya Mashariki kwa madhumuni ya kuishambulia URUSI siku za usoni - mbinu za watu kama huyo MaCain na wenzake akina Kerry wote walikuwa wanajeshi katika vita vya VietNam yeye kama a jetfighter pilot na Kerry kama rubani wa kuendesha speedboats - fikila zao bado ni za kijeshi jeshi mno, ni watu hatari kwa amani ya Dunia. Chukulia mfano wa Syria, kama sio OBAMA kutumia busara - wakina McCain na Kerry walishapania kumshurutisha OBAMA aishambulie SYRIA.