voices.washingtonpost.com - 8/18/2008
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By Perry Bacon, Jr. ORLANDO -- John McCain criticized Barack Obama's "judgment" and "shifting positions" on Iraq in a speech here this morning, repeating a familiar attack on the senator from Illinois for opposing an increase in troops in Iraq that has helped reduce violence there. "The surge has succeeded and yet Senator Obama still cannot quite bring himself to admit his own failure in ...
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Riding The Surge Like He Stole It
Wonk Room —
... mccain-sings-2.jpg A familiar refrain from John McCain’s speech today to the annual convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars: Though victory in Iraq is finally in sight , a great deal still depends on the decisions and good judgment of the next president. The hard-won gains of our troops hang in the balance.[…] [Senator Obama] opposed the surge and confidently predicted that it would fail. Then he tried to prevent funding for the troops who carried out the surge. Not content to merely predict failure in Iraq, my opponent tried to legislate failure. This was back when ...
Obama hits back at McCain cheap shots in VFW speech
Crooks and Liars —
... Just as McCain did Monday, Barack Obama addressed the Veterans of Foreign Wars today, and didn’t pull any punches in his response to McCain’s attacks, especially when it came to the cheap shot that he would rather win the Presidency than win the war. It’s welcoming to see a Democrat eager to go before traditionally Republican-friendly audiences and knock it out of the park. ...
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Republican John McCain, addressing fellow veterans of foreign wars in Orlando today, is telling them that both he and Democratic rival Barack Obama plan to bring U.S. forces home from the war in Iraq - "the great difference is that I ...
Do As I Say, Not As I Do
agonist.org 8/18/2008 — I'm not one to quote Maureen Dowd, but when she nails it, she nails it:
[W]ith this country’s military and moral force so depleted, the Bushies can hardly tell Russia to stop doing what they themselves did in Iraq: unilaterally invade a country ...
Riding The Surge Like He Stole It
thinkprogress.org 8/18/2008 — A familiar refrain from John McCain’s speech today to the annual convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars:
Though victory in Iraq is finally in sight , a great deal still depends on the decisions and good judgment of the next president. ...
Burt Prelutsky :: Townhall.com :: The Marxist Brother
townhall.com 8/18/2008 — I must confess that I am spending an awful lot of time thinking about Barack Obama. I hasten to add that it’s not, as is the case with Chris Matthews, because the Senator sends shivers up my leg. Rather, it’s because I simply can’t figure out how he’s ...
Presidential campaigns spar over Georgia —
CNN.com - Politics 8/18/2008
The Bush administration and Republican-standard-bearer John McCain were too distracted by the war in Iraq to see the crisis in Georgia on the horizon, supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama charged Sunday.
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McCain: 'Show me somebody to hit' —
First Read 8/18/2008
On Sunday, the New York Times front-paged a profile of McCain’s response to 9/11: to retaliate not only against Al Qaeda -- but also Iraq, Iran, and Syria. “Now, as Mr. McCain prepares to accept the Republican presidential nomination, his ...
Court Tries Ex-Marine for Iraq Killings —
WSJ.com: Politics And Policy 8/19/2008
A former Marine faces charges over alleged killings in Iraq, a case that will test if soldiers can be held accountable for battlefield crimes after their service has ended. The charges have been filed by civilian prosecutors in a federal court under a ...
Who's No. 2? Obama Keeps Everybody Guessing. —
Wash Post Elections 8/19/2008
This is Veep Week. That, in reality, is about all that anyone outside Sen. Barack Obama's inner, inner circle knows -- that sometime before next week the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee will announce his running mate. Beyond that, the ...
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