In an interview on CBS News, McCain told Katie Couric the reason the Sunni Awakening happened was because the Sunni shieks knew the Surge would protect them.

The problem with that?

The Sunni Awakening preceded the Surge.

And this...

A slip up? A lie? Which would be worse?

SIDE NOTE: CBS left that embarrassing part of the interiew on the cutting room floor. But they left it in the transcript. So, the media hates WHO???

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Odd thing is, I used to respect McCain. Unfortunately, now that he's running for the presidency, he seems to have shed all his principles and sold his soul to the Bush/Cheney/Rove neocons. Sad.

"Presidential ambition is a disease that can only be cured by embalming fluid."
John McCain

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You know all that stuff you learned from listening to Rush Limbaugh and Bill ORielly? It's all a lie. Pass it on.

I think you slipped up. I know you don't want to give our troops any credit, like Obama, and say that Al-Sadr won the Iraq War, but that isn't the way it happened.

McCain is saying the surge helped with the Anbar awakening, and indeed it did. There was still major fighting going oon in Anbar when the Surge happened.

From 2007:


Anbar's battlegrounds

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archiv...bar_rising.php

Despite the progress in large swaths of Anbar province - from Fallujah in the east to Husaybah on the Syrian border, and Rutbah to the south - the regions north, south and east of Fallujah remain a battleground. The towns and cities of Amiriya, Ferris, Zaidon and Karma are the focal points of al Qaeda and allied Sunni insurgent's power bases in Anbar province.

The Amiriya/Ferris region has been the scene of intense battles between the Anbar Salvation Council and Iraqi and U.S. forces on one side, and al Qaeda and its allies on the other. Amiriya was the scene of two major battles between opposing forces in the month of March. "The Amiriya/Ferris region is typical Iraqi farmland, bound on one side by the river, and the other side by barren desert," said Specialist Alanko. "The region has been the scene of much fighting between the Anbar Salvation Council and al Qaeda in Iraq, and is home to a recent, ongoing push by US Army and Marine troops" to secure the area.

On March 2, over 300 al Qaeda attacked the the town of Amiriya in an attempt to assassinate a prominent leader of the Anbar Salvation Council. The leader of the Anbar Salvation Council was to attend the funeral of one of those killed in the February 24 suicide bombing against a mosque in Habbaniyah, where the cleric preached against al Qaeda. The Iraqi police in Amiriya held off the attack, radioed for backup from Iraqi Army, police and the Anbar Salvation Council. U.S. air support also engaged in fighting. At least 50 al Qaeda were killed and 80 captured in the largest battle in Anbar province this year.

On March 20, in the second major battle in Amiriya in less than three weeks, a force of over 100 al Qaeda clashed with the Anbar Salvation Council, backed by Iraqi Security Forces. Thirty-nine al Qaeda were killed and 7 were captured during the battle. Again, the target is believed to be a senior leader of the Anbar Salvation Council.

Zaidon is a town where Saddam Hussein allowed Islamist extremist to thrive during his time in power. Religious leaders preach hate and jihad, and provide the ideological underpinning for the jihad, according to a senior military intelligence analyst. "Zaidon is the canal-laced farmland north of the Euphrates on the south side of Fallujah," said Specialist Alanko. "Many of the insurgents holed up in Fallujah before the Army and Marines cleared the city in November of 2004 escaped across these same canals, and the area continues to be a problem to this day."

Perhaps the most insurgent infested region is Karma, where Task Force 145 - the hunter killer teams that target al Qaeda leaders and operatives - conduct near daily raids. "Karma was a nasty town when I started working in Fallujah, and if anything, it has gone downhill since," said Specialist Alanko. "More and larger bombs appear in the roads, and the faces in town have gone from indifferent to angry. Many AQI fighters have been killed or captured in the area, but it seems that, for now at least, Karma remains one of the hottest holdouts of the AQI insurgency."

Karma was the scene of the shoot down of a Marine Ch-46 helicopter in February. Capitan Coulson's company lost three soldiers in Karma after they attempted to recovery the helo. Several al Qaeda anti aircraft teams have been destroyed in the region. JD Johannes, an embedded independent journalist, witnessed a complex suicide attack on the Army outpost at OP Omar in early April.

I was in the military for nine years. How long were you in the military, JLB? I mean, when you weren't being the most feared poster on the Innernets and an investment analyst and a millionaire with a mansion and a yacht.

McCain said what he said.

Quote: "And it began the Anbar awakening."

And he either lied or was wrong.

Live with it.

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After this, let's find out whose dad could beat up the other dad.

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My father is dead. But you already knew that, Tom.

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HuffPo has the story now. These are the same people who broke the "Rev. Wright" You Tube tape, so look for this to get some play now.

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Really? Which country?

The same amount of time Obama was. I guess I'm not qualified to be President either....

I don't have a yacht. Never said I did.


Ther Sunni Awakening is now the Anbar Awakening, hmmm?

Started as the Anbar Awakening, spread to the Sunni Awakening. Homework time, perhaps?

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Since when did military experience qualify you to become president? Oh right. Never.