Last night John McCain showed WHY he should NOT be the GOP candidate for President in 2008. In a CNN interview Sen. McCain made some outrageous statements that show he, like Bush and Cheney, refuse to accept the reality of Iraq and look at that conflict as they want it to be not as it is!!
McCain said the surge had made it possible for Americans to walk safely in some sections of Baghdad outside the Green Zone. He also claimed that Gen. Petraeus regularly went into Baghdad in an “Unarmored Vehicle”
At the completion of the interview CNN asked their reporter Michael Ware about the claims made by McCain. He flatly stated that Sen. McCain was in a state of denial. Mr. Ware also said it was NOT correct that Gen Petraeus went on the streets of Baghdad as McCain claimed.
Today CNN had a second interview with Sen. McCain to confront him about the statements he made about the security situation in Iraq. When McCain was asked about the statements made by Michael Ware he was unable to resound. Then the CNN reporter informed McCain that CNN had contacted Gen. Petraeus’s office and they said ,” The general NEVER leaves the Green Zone without an armed escort." That escort includes armored vehicles, helicopter cover, armed columns and snipers. McCain was again unable to respond.
These two interviews by CNN clearly show that Sen. McCain refuses to accept the reality of the situation in Iraq just like Bush. We do not need another Commander-in-Chief that lives in a DREAM WORLD!"