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2016 Postmortem

TwilightGardener

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18. He was not unprepared for that. He doesn't have to name names--the Israel lobby

Reply to leftynyc (Reply #17)

Fri Feb 1, 2013, 11:01 AM

Feb 2013

(Linsey AIPAC Graham and most of the other Senators) was sitting right in front of him, doing stupid things. We all saw it. Naming names and reciting where he was pressured would have been extremely impolitic and would have created a furor and bad headlines. He knew that, and avoided that trap. He also was not going to give McLame the headlines or confirmation he wanted that teh surge was awesome and Iraq was awesome--he addressed that in detail later. The jury is still out on what the surge accomplished, and it was a tactic in a mistaken war. He said that. I guess I'm the only one who actually watched the hearing.

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He was not unprepared for that. He doesn't have to name names--the Israel lobby TwilightGardener Feb 2013 #18

He looked like he avoided both questions leftynyc Feb 2013 #21

He answered McCain, just not with a simple yes or no. McCain wanted him TwilightGardener Feb 2013 #22

Totally agree on the surge question leftynyc Feb 2013 #23

You understand that there was no way to do that without blowing up TwilightGardener Feb 2013 #24

I guess I'm coming from a different leftynyc Feb 2013 #25

You bring up all the neocon talking points against him. TwilightGardener Feb 2013 #26

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Mark my words.. golfguru Feb 2013 #20

McCain should just have sung, "Bomb, bomb, bomb . . . bomb, bomb Iran!" for the hearing. nt patrice Jan 2013 #12

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