Countdown: Special Comment
Keith Olbermann has slowly taken Senator John McCain’s speech at the VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) and deconstructed it. He pulled McCain’s 2003 Iraq victory speech in which McCain declared that the job was done. McCain has pointed the finger at Senator Barack Obama for shifting positions on Iraq but really, McCain has no rival when it comes to sitting on both sides of the fence at the same.
This is a very good special comment by Keith Olbermann.
It should be mentioned that I cringe when I hear that someone is speaking to the VFW. It was at the VFW that Dick Cheney laid down the saber. Remember:
“Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us. And there is no doubt that his aggressive regional ambitions will lead him into future confrontations with his neighbors — confrontations that will involve both the weapons he has today, and the ones he will continue to develop with his oil wealth.” Vice President Dick Cheney at the Veterans of Foreign Wars, August 26, 2002.
Dude… this Olberman guy can’t distinguish between a successful regime change and a success against al-qaeda. We WON the war against Saddam… we’ve had a harder time against the war against Iran and Al-Qaeda operatives inside Iraq… but we’ve finally gotten close to winning that one too.
Omama left our troops out to dry in the middle of a war against al-qaeda… for his own political positioning… which is all McCain was pointing out. McCain supported the troops 100% even things weren’t going well — when doing so was actually was potentially damaging to his own political positioning… and now Olberman is trying to turn his un-ending support of the troops and his cheer-leading of US victories into a huge inconsistancy–trying to turn McCain into a hypocrite? WTF?!
What a blind, partisan idiot.
Really? We won the war against Saddam. Then our troops can come home. Thanks for telling me. You da’ man!