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McCain's Achilles Heel [VIDEO]

Posted by Adam Howard, AlterNet at 12:12 PM on March 26, 2008.


The Democrats are missing a big opportunity to strike early at John McCain's Achilles heel -- his lockstep support for an extremely unpopular war.
TPMtv: McCain's Achilles Heel

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100 years? 1,000 years? 10,000 years!?! Think what you want about who's being unfair, who should drop out and the like in the primary race. The Democrats are missing a big opportunity to strike early at John McCain's Achilles heel -- his lockstep support for an extremely unpopular war. The key points are laid out in today's episode of TPMtv. Check out the video to your right for more.

h/t Brave New Films

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Tagged as: iraq, mccain

Adam Howard is the editor of PEEK.


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The reason Democrats will not challenge McCain on the war is simple
Posted by: joeunix on Mar 26, 2008 12:47 PM   
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The Democrats backed and funded Bush's "War in Iraq."

The Democrats are complicit.

Nancy Pelosi took impeachment "off the table".

The Democrats, after winning control of Congress in 2006, reneged on their pledge to "stop the war."

Thus, the Democrats are war criminals, just like Bush and the Republicans.

It's the hypocrisy, stupid.

Any questions?

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MCCAIN HAS ALREADY ANSWERED THE QUESTION
Posted by: VZEQICVA on Mar 26, 2008 2:34 PM   
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He stays on the safe side and says it could take 100 yrs. It's not his intention to even try to bring the war to an end. He has no ideas about the growing number of home foreclosures, doesn't know much about the economy. Seems to me McCain has many more Achilles Heels than he has feet. It's disturbing to imagine him as the president. Thanks, ANNA

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pfft! his achilles heel is his mouth
Posted by: KaptainSpiffy on Mar 27, 2008 4:00 AM   
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keep talking, ya lyin' old bastard. the camera's running!

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John McPain is a Flesh eating ZOMBIE!
Posted by: williameon on Mar 27, 2008 4:38 AM   
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With one foot in the grave and the other
On a Banana peel!
You look like Death Warmed Over!

What the FUNK!

Is this what we need now?
Another Viet Nam throw back?
Another Hypocrite FOSSIL?
Another REPTILIAN Dinosaur with blinders on?

The Dead leading The Brain Dead.
(It's a little presumptuous-That they had a Brain to begin with?)
What a WAR MONGER!

Talk about Brain washed and Conditioned.
McPain is an unmitigated disaster.
That’s already Happened!
The Corpirates!
Are propping him up
To seal (steal) another Selection.

He will die in Orifice
And
Howdy Doody will be the next
Resident!
All Hail!
Lieberwhore!
Spanks!
Red-Necks!

Both the
Fauxtians and The Zioists
Will be happy with
The New Puppet King!

The Crass GREEDIA will proclaim it
The Second coming of Christ?
As
The War Criminal.

Little has changed in Two Thousand years.

The Money Changers are still in The Temple.

How many more years will the WAR last?
How many more Dead children?
How many more Trillions?
Sucked Down
Dead Eye's
BLACK (A-s) Hole?

When they have all the chips
The Game stops and
The Bank calls in
The Markers.
Then,
The Suffering really begins.

Too late now!
The Cow is out of the barn.
The Titanic (Americo) is sunk!
The Train driven over a cliff by a Chimp!

Bonzo goes to Washington!

All that is left is the crying.
I told you so is never enough:
To wash away the Pain and Frustration.
Maybe we will learn this time around?

Plunge- Clear all channels of Blockage

Purge- Remove all Viruses

REBOOT!

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» THANK YOU FOR THINKING! Posted by: jeffreytaos
Ten thousand years...
Posted by: jeffreytaos on Mar 27, 2008 5:29 AM   
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...a chance to die ten thousand times. How many incarnations will McCain have? What a sad story. Anyone who votes for this guy deserves the lifetimes of hell they bring on for themselves.

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talked to a man the other day
Posted by: bitsfick on Mar 27, 2008 5:50 AM   
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who said he won't vote for Hillary, wrong plumbing fixtures, won't vote for Obama, wrong skin color. I pointed out that McCain is nuts, and he remarked "no problem the Democrats will keep him in line. I replied, "yeah, like they are doing with Bush" Never underestimate the stupidity of the average voter.

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» pfft! Posted by: KaptainSpiffy
Polls and the base
Posted by: QCao009 on Mar 27, 2008 6:28 AM   
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The war will continue to remain an issue as long as the press allows its coverage to appear on the front page. Polls will go up and down, but one thing I have learned as a Vietnamese American is that propaganda does work. If you repeat the word "victory" often enough, people will believe you until your governement falls.

The base has been disenchanted with Bush ever since Katrina and Wilma. He has also not been able to deliver on his faith-based schemes. As is true of the President's track record, what he delivers and what he promises are worlds apart. Ask his last two WH faith-based program directors. Better still, ask his parents, ask any of his family members. "No comment" would be more than likely their reply. We do not know the George they know. Photoshop did a pretty good job until the country wakes up in another crisis and finds we have noone at the helm because the house, the car and the church have been sold out from under us. Shopping will not save us now. We left the house wide open after the terrorists blew down the door. And then the thieves just follow as we recoil in fear.

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Iraqis Will Take Care Of This Problem For The Democrats
Posted by: rgoalierob on Mar 27, 2008 7:30 AM   
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The recent "counter-surge" in violence in Iraq is only the beginning of a Iraqi "Tet Offensive" to prove that this war is the unmitigated failure that we all knew it was.
McBush will be proven wrong, once again and Obama (or Hillary) will capitalize and increase the rhetoric for getting our arses out of this disaster.

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"Am I my brother's keeper?" More Disgrace for McShame!
Posted by: indepentent on Mar 27, 2008 7:58 AM   
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From: http://www.cain2008.org
The UN, EU and numerous public organizations are deeply outraged over the stripping of rights and forced resettlement of these gentle and deeply spiritual band of Dineh-Navajo Indians from Arizona. The UN Human Rights Commission (SR AbdelTelif Amor, Investigating the US Government's abuse of the Navajo), issued a condemnation, they were so disgusted. The European Union issued written criticisms and demanded the Clinton Administration intervene in McCain's lawmaking. Clinton remained silent. The Dineh-Navajo were quite literally swept off of lands they'd owned since 1500 A.D. by legislations authored by Senator McCain on a ruse that challenged their deeds to these lands, and handed the coal beneath them over to the largest unsustainable energy corporation in America.

Peabody Western Coal Group, the nation's largest coal mining company, has been progressively strip mining the vast Coal resources from beneath the Dineh-Navajo's farmlands at nominal cost and tapping their pristine lakes and wells to slurry pipe it to a power station in Nevada, while McCain arranged convenient amendments to this very ugly law so as to more easily evict the Dineh-Navajo from their lands just ahead of Peabody's perpetual expansion of it's Coal Mining operations. The Black Mesa was one of the nations most beautiful plains areas, today, it's a Hell on earth.

To force them off the lands, a partition fence was used (through law enacted by McCain in a 1996 bill he brought before the Senate and House) designed to deprive them of range to herd their cattle. When the Dineh simply removed sections of the fence to range their herds, the Dineh's water wells (for cattle, but on the other side of the fences from them) were capped, their properties vandalized, their cattle seized, and ultimately false challenges to their deeds were filed by paid proxies of the Peabody Western Coal Company under the guise of a phony "Hopi" tribal counsel claiming theoretical ownership of all Indian lands nationwide.

UN officials, even the Commissioners appointed to oversee the resettlement by the Senate and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, have issued hue and cry that the entire affair is little more than Genocide against the gentle Dineh-Navajo. Many have resigned shortly after being appointed. The Environmental impacts of the strip mining and the slurry pipeline are not only horrifying but many are not lawful. Some officials have equated the behavior of Senator McCain's laws and the activities of his Senate Committee and that of the Government to enforce same, to be on a par with that of the Nazis during WWII, and have suggested that same will remain "a blotch upon the history" of America for a very long time.
Amendments to US Public Law PL 93-531 in:

* 1996 (Partition Fence),
* 1999 (Settlement and Eviction),
* 2001 (Enforcement of Resettlement Mandates) and
* 2005 (Expansion of Resettlement),

all of which were authored and introduced before the US Senate by Senator John McCain. For the past 8 years, the United Nations Special Rapporteur (Hon. Abdeltalif Amor) on Indigenous People's Rights and the United Nations' have been issuing most vigorous condemnation of human rights violations they say, after very lengthy investigations, that the US Government is and has been committing against the Dineh-Navajo from Arizona. Senator McCain's legislative activities against the Dineh-Navajo in Arizona have led to the very first UN Human Rights investigation inside the USA in history. (see attached Press Release)

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"Am I my brother's keeper?" More Disgrace for McShame! Part 2
Posted by: indepentent on Mar 27, 2008 7:58 AM   
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Senator McCain has also introduced a bill this year, before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, intended to strip away Indian Casino Operations, the sole source after Arts and Crafts that most Tribes have for funding Education, Housing, Health Care and Law and Tribal Security, for their peoples. This would also open most Tribes up to looting of their lands and resources, lacking the funds to legally defend themselves from carpetbagging.

The Dineh-Navajo, who have been progressively victimized by McCain and others over the course of three decades, have no Casino and little by way of financial resources to defend their legal rights with, a difficult position when up against one of the Senate's most powerful figures and the largest Coal Mining company in the US. As a result, during their three decades long peaceful resistance to the avarice of Senator McCain and greed of Peabody Group, they've been handed legal setback after legal setback, while a phony adversary tribal counsel composed by Peabody testifies over and over again against their rights before an egregiously "gullible" US Senate, House, and Supreme Court.

The organization, Common Cause, suggests McCain received large numbers of street name campaign contributions backing his three Presidential runs, and allegations have been made that Senator McCain's family liquor distribution business, operated by his Wife, landed huge "payback" contracts in Las Vegas, Nevada where the Coal supplied lower costpower via the Mohave Generating Station in Loughlin operated by giant Bechtel Corporation. Meanwhile, the forced resettlements have led to disease and early death among more than 7,000 of the Dineh-Navajo.

ACSA study reveals that after assembling a team of "pro-Peabody Western Coal" Indians and obtaining a false "Hopi-Navajo" Tribal Counsel designation by the Bureau of Indian Affairs for these paid Tribal representatives, in the period 1974-1996, Senator McCain was able to get large bands of the Dineh-Navajo relocated off their lands, so that Peabody Western could mine the coal under their farms at nominal expense. Common Cause has suggested McCain was indirectly compensated by street name cash contributions to his Federal Election Fund during three Presidential runs, and through a family beer and liquor distribution business with Las Vegas Casinos who benefited from the coal driven power he supplied. McCain's wife operates the business.

FOR MORE INFO and A FILM ON THE SUBJECT VISIT

http://www.cain2008.org and click "ENTER >"

Watch the film, "Vanishing Prayer", but bring kleenex. It is a story that demonstrates why McCain and his peers do not belong in public office

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» christ Posted by: KaptainSpiffy
Take a good look
Posted by: willymack on Mar 27, 2008 12:19 PM   
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At the process of distillation that took place among the rethug presidential hopefuls. Look at what they came up as the best their "party" had to offer, a loser among losers. This alone should be sufficient to ensure a Democratic landslide come November, except for the roughly 50% of us who have the annoying habit of plumbing the abyssal depths of stupidity and ignorance with effortless ease. If but a fraction of these mental pygmies can be gotten to, the Democrats will gain the White House as well as a majority in the Senate.

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» Speaking of "mental pygmies" Posted by: joeunix
One Simple Answer.
Posted by: powerplant on Mar 27, 2008 3:07 PM   
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One simple answer to the question should McCain be president. Well should he? HELL NO!!! A hundred or a thousand years in Iraq ,John? Are you MAD! I wish the press would push tougher questions on John McCain. I know, he seems like a nice guy and he is a war hero and a senator but of all people who knows what war is all about he should be against it. And just because McCain has been these things that I listed above does not mean he will make a good president. Look at U.S. Grant. Great general poor president. Nuff Said!

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