Laurence A. Toenjes over at OpEdNews writes about why Barack Obama needs to go more forcefully against John McCain and his role in selling the Iraq War to the American People.
But this point could be made much stronger by forcibly pointing out that McCain did not just vote in favor of the war, he actively helped sell the war to the American public beginning in the fall of 2002. McCain was promoting the war when he should have been asking hard questions of President Bush and the intelligence community as to its necessity and wisdom.
At the behest of the Bush Administration, the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq (CLI) was set up in the fall of 2002 to “press the case in the United States and Europe for ejecting Hussein from power (Peter Slevin, Washington Post, November 4, 2002). Slevin pointed out that at that time public support for the Iraq War was on the decline. The Administration was frantic to reverse this trend.
John McCain and Joseph Lieberman were appointed the honorary co-chairs of the CLI, thus lending their weight to its promotional activities.
Americans do not like being lied to, especially about matters affecting decisions to send young men and women into battle. I think the Obama campaign is seriously ignoring opportunities to tie McCain directly to doing just that.
John McCain isn’t a maverick at all. Instead he’s Bush’s puppet, controlled by the neo-conservatives who have been manipulating and running this beautiful country into the ground for the past seven years. It’s amazing that you don’t hear Bush’ fake Texas drawl when McCain opens his mouth.
