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🗓️ 24 August 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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0:00.0 | Well, Senator McCain, who some are calling Senator McCrazy, Senator McCain is back, is sucking |
0:10.1 | up to the drive by media and taking cheap shots at President Bush. He was in Ohio yesterday, |
0:16.3 | campaigning for and with Senator Mike DeWine said this at a news conference. |
0:22.4 | I think one of the issues we made was underestimating the size of the task and the sacrifice |
0:28.4 | it would be required. Stuff happens, mission accomplished, last throws, few dead enders. |
0:36.9 | I'm more familiar with those statements than anyone else because it greets me so much that we |
0:43.7 | have not told the American people how tough and difficult this task would be. |
0:50.0 | I'm going to go back. I have a quote here from President Bush on April 28th of 2003. |
0:54.9 | I mean, I read that quote to you. Iraq can be an example of peace and prosperity and freedom |
1:02.0 | to the entire Middle East. It will be a hard journey, but in every step of the way, |
1:08.0 | Iraq will have a steady friend in the American people. I am not aware of the President. |
1:15.1 | I'm not aware of myself ever thinking this was going to be a cakewalk, |
1:19.6 | and I'm not aware of the administration making the case. I think that mission accomplished |
1:25.6 | banner on board the aircraft carrier. Some could say that was misleading, but the mission at that |
1:34.2 | time was accomplished. That was getting rid of Saddam. The war in Iraq actually was quite successful |
1:40.6 | and didn't take very long. It is the aftermath, the quest for peace, so to speak, |
1:46.4 | that is taking a long time. I don't think the President misled anybody about it. Anyway, |
1:51.9 | here is what McCain wanted. He wanted coverage on all the evening news, the cable channels, |
1:57.6 | drive by media, Agilation McCain, McCain McCain, McCain McCain, and he got it. Here's a montage. |
2:03.6 | The Senator McCain says that the administration misled the public about the war. |
2:08.4 | Led the public to think it would be a day at the beach. War of words, Senator John McCain |
2:13.8 | comes out swinging and accusing the President of misleading the American people, |
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