Ok.. Ok.. I know the title stretches the truth a bit... pretend for a second I am a CNN producer and follow me under the fold.
Check out the great story on MyWay.com
http://www.rawstory.com/...
McCain's Money Quote earlier this week:
"Stuff happens, mission accomplished, last throes, a few dead-enders. I'm just more familiar with those statements than anyone else because it grieves me so much that we had not told the American people how tough and difficult this task would be," the Arizona senator said.
He made the comments while campaigning for Republican Sen. Mike DeWine of Ohio.
Ok... so is he telling us that Bush lied when he said "Mission Accomplished"? Is he telling us Cheney lied when he said "the insurgency is in its last throws? And most important, when McCain himself was asked in a March 2003 interview on MSNBC's "Hardball With Chris Matthews" whether he believed the people of Iraq would treat U.S. forces as liberators...
"Absolutely. Absolutely," the senator replied.
The final straw, which brings us to the diary title: In a November speech at the American Enterprise Institute, he cautioned that the administration must accurately portray even negative events on the ground and tell the country that it will take a long time to win.
"If we can't retain the support of the American people, we will have lost this war as soundly as if our forces were defeated on the battlefield," he said in November.
So, with 61% of American people against the war, McCain's definition of loss is now reality.
So, John, what do you suggest now?