McCain Shifts Position on More US Troops to Afghanistan

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You need help first of all hillary lost understand that second hillary voted yes to the war in iraq so that should tell where her judgement was during the primaries i never heard hillary speak about afghan the taliban or none of that face it obama has been right all along he has good judgment hes willing to listen to our military that is the kinds of things we need as potus obama 08

Obama's shifts on foreign policy are making me dizzy. I see he scrubbed his criticisms on the surge from his website this weekend. hmmm....

The only "connection" between Iraq and Afghanistan is the total incompetence by the Bush Regime, including Juan McCain, in running both Wars. Iraq has nothing to do with 9/11 or any so called War on Terror. It was supposedly a War of Liberation and to enforce UN Resolutions regarding WMD's, foreign fighters showed up there as Al Qaeda in Iraq because the U.S. Military was there, the insurgents there have every right to fight against any foreign occupation of their country, they are not Terrorists.

Bush keeps saying that's it's better to fight them "over there" instead of here, but does he believe he's punishing Al Qaeda by making their trainees travel to Iraq, while Bin Laden and other Al Qaeda an Talaban leaders have been practically ignored since Bush abandoned his War on Terror for a War For Oil.

It really doesn't matter what either Juan or Barrack plan for Iraq now, the Iraqi's themselves are ready to kick us out and then move forward with becoming a new Iranian State. Hundreds of Billions of U.S. Taxpayer dollars, borrowed from China, and more than 4000 American lives, all spent in aiding Iran.

The major difference between these two on foreign policy are the advisers. While Senator Obama has assembled a team of top notch foreign policy experts with varied backgrounds and affiliations and tends to take their advice into consideration before making a policy statement or a "shift" in policy, as time dictates needed changes; McCain on the other hand, has relied heavily on former Bush advisers, or individuals such as Charlie Black, the lobbyist who has been shuffled from the forefront after stating that "another attack on America would help McCain" and individuals such as former CIA head, James Woolsey, who advised McCain to "bomb Syria". In this respect, McCain's change, (shift, flip-flop, whatever term one wishes to apply), acknowledges the advantage and superiority Senator Obama has over that of his own team. McCain has consistently demonstrated his lack of ability to choose credible individuals for advice, as has been exhibited by the almost weekly exit of the same individuals from his team. This fact has just been reinforced by the exit of his top economic adviser, Phil Gramm. This should be a red flag for anyone.

dl made at comment at 8:40 that made a lot of sense. It is worth reading and thinking about.
As for the topic of this article, McCain is following Obama on sending more troops to Afghanistan. Obama has been saying more troops were needed there for many months. The troops themselves have been saying the same thing in many news articles that they feel forgotten, that their numbers are too few, leaving them open to attack in many situations and unable to make progress.
What McCain doesn't seem to understand is that is doesn't take prior military experience to lead an army. It takes someone that is intelligent and willing to listen to the troops, the generals, and good old common sense. Obama has proved over and over he has the ability to make the right calls.

mccains been out of the senate for every vote this year... hes hte most absent member of congress

hes missed environmental votes Gi bill votes fisa

you name it mccain missed it

oh and then mccain criticized congress for taking a break for july the 4th

lol

yea slackers back to work, oh i dont do weekends

Man it must irk John Sydney McCain III that the so-called naive one has been right on foreign policy issues more often than him the last few weeks. The Iraqis want a timetable (JSM III doesn't), the war commanders want to re-focus on Afghanistan (JSM III just now gets it) and the US and others are talking more to Iran (JSM III just wants to bomb them or kill them with lung cancer). Let's not even mention that John Sydney McCain III keeps referring to a country that hasn't existed for 15 years. Man is this guy serious or what?

Obama chairs a Foreign Affairs committee and never has a hearing--votes present 129 times and has only 143 active days in the Senate.

And we are to believe he has the experience and the backbone to lead this country?

Obama would make a great pastor--but his sermons won't protect our country.

McCain/Hillary

More flip flopping from the double talk express. What's new?

Jake isn't the problem here

the quiet of the surge that they are callinjg a success is built on a playbook we have seen before...

Prop up our enemies to come to our side...giving them weapons, money, promises (that will remain unfulfilled but we don't care)...

this is what we did with the insurgents...

Isn't this what we did with Iran and Afghanistan also?

Isn't this what got us the taliban and al quaeda in the first place...

and nw we have done it with the insurgents in Iraq...and like we did with Iran and Afghanistan we call it a success (to win over the support of the American people and the "temporary win" for political reasons)...and then it comes back to bite us in the a## 10 fold down the road...

am I wrong...do we not need to see that McCain and Bush are taking a bad play out of an old playbook and no one is seeing it?

Isn't that what got us here?

why is no one showing the association and similarities in this tactic and what we should have learned as bad tactics from the 80's?

GOP mass hypnosis is making it's way through the MSM. War is good, wrong is right, the economy is healthy, health care for the few, fight them over in Iraq....
So many blind, deaf and dumb to choose from the GOP has a large circus tent filled to overflowing.

I can see why this guy has to have Sanctimonious Joe by his side at all times. For two days in a row, he's talked about Czechoslovakia...a country that no longer exists.

At least McCain is smart enough to come around to Obama's way of thinking.

It may be another flip-flop from the "Double-Talk Express", but at least it's George W McCain's first INTELLIGENT flip-flop.

Just what this country needs another "DOLT" like BUSH in the White House for 4 more years...Throw the GOP bum's out the front door..

Bush went as President... not as a candidate for office looking for a photo op.

Mccain made a quiet trip to Iraq
around Father's Day to visit his son.
Most of us weren't even aware of it until it was over.

I remember when the Obama haters in Washington were calling him naive and irresponsible for wanting to talk to world leaders. They claimed that "America does not negotiate with rogue leaders and terrorists". Just in the last few weeks Bush talked with North Korea and now going to talk to Iran. Talk about major flip-flopping and the pots calling the kettle black. It seems McCain and Bush are following Obama's lead, how ironic. Go Obama!!!

is grandmaisgold.. sandy?

or do they share the same script?

on purpose?

John's conscience: Oh, you mean Obama chaired his committee in absentia? Obama is all talk. The problem is he forgets what he said before, then says something different. It is a joke that he speaks of solutions for Afghanistan when he did nothing on the committee he chaired. Change we can believe in!

PUMA

Hillary/McCain '08

AkaDad - As of yesterday McCain's flip-flops were up to 70. Of course, that was before today. The self-professed candidate of “straight talk” and “experience” spent today changing his position on gay adoption, adopting Senator Obama’s position that we need more troops in Afghanistan after having resisted taking that position, flip flopping on whether he’d send U.S. or NATO troops (he actually offered three different explanations on where those additional troops would come from), and referring to a country that hasn’t existed since 1992 for the second time in two days.

dmac: Totally agree with you!