Walter C Uhler » Entries tagged with "John McCain"
For Bush and McCain, Iraqis are merely “ropes for American dirty laundry”
Speaking recently at Camp Arifjan, some 80 kilometers south of Kuwait City, President Bush assured some 1,000 U.S. soldiers: “There is no doubt in my mind when history was [sic] written, the final page will say victory was won by the United States…and generations of Americans will live in peace.” A few days later, speaking to ABC’s Terry Moran, Bush seemed to acknowledge that people view him as a “warmonger,” but he immediately rebutted that view with his assertion: “I view myself as peacemaker.” Predictably, this self-proclaimed peacemaker’s hermetically sealed mind conveniently ignored a fact that has smacked the rest of the world across the face: Bush’s illegal, immoral, unprovoked invasion (akin to Hitler’s invasion of Poland) has lasted some 1,762 … Read entire article »
Filed under: Bush Administration, Foreign Policy, Iraq War
Bringing Die-hard War Supporters and Feckless War Opponents to Their Knees
I was reminded of my mid-1960s high school days in conservative Lebanon, Pennsylvania, when I read that Senator John McCain recommended that MoveOn.org, “ought to be thrown out of this country,” because it paid for a full-page ad in the New York Times, which carried the headline, “General Petraeus or General Betray Us?” McCain’s outburst reminded me of the narrow-mind patriots in Lebanon, who used the illiberal clichĂ©, “America, Love it or Leave it” to deny the patriotism of America’s Vietnam War protesters. Yet, there are at least two reasons to suspect that MoveOn’s ad had merit and critics, like McCain, were wrong. First, we have Gareth Porter’s exceptional reporting that General Petraeus’ superior, Admiral Fallon, accused Petraeus of … Read entire article »
Filed under: Iraq War