John McCain:
I had the courage and the judgment to say I would rather lose a political campaign than lose a war. It seems to me that Obama would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign.
I just watched both full CBS interviews with McCain and Obama, viewable at CBSnews.com.
Obama credited our troops with reducing violence, but continued to say he would not have supported the surge, given that he had his own proposed strategy which was never put into play. He refused to engage in hypotheticals about what would have happened under his plan.
McCain, beyond making the comment quote above, said multiple times that Senator Obama lacked understanding of the policy issues, and that Obama does not acknowledge the Surge's success. He did engage in the hypotheticals, saying that Obama's strategy (similar to that proposed by the Bipartisan Iraq Study Group) would have led to defeat. Furthermore, McCain repeately pushed the idea that Obama would ignore the conditions on the ground, something that has never been his position (and that he got flak for in the primaries.)
Absolutely classless.
Update [2008-7-22 22:7:48 by Falsehood]: McCain also made a fundamentally wrong assertion regarding history and the Ambar awakening in the same interview. The Huffington Post has the story.|
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