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Graham Claims McCain ‘Has
Never Said That This War Would Be Easy’
Think
Progress
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Yesterday on Fox News’ Hannity and Colmes, Senator Lindsey
Graham (R-SC) claimed that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) never said
that the Iraq war would be won easily:
He has never said that this war would be easy. He has been
the guy saying for four years that we’re getting it wrong.
We need more troops.
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Graham’s statement is absolutely false. In the run-up
to war, McCain eagerly proclaimed on multiple occasions that the
war would be “easy,” giving rosy predictions about
the daunting war ahead:
“Because I know that as successful as I believe we will
be, and I believe that the success will be fairly easy, we will
still lose some American young men or women.”" [CNN,
9/24/02]
“But the point is that, one, we will win this conflict.
We will win it easily.” [MSNBC, 1/22/03]
When Alan Colmes countered Graham’s statement with a barrage
of similar quotes from McCain, Graham responded: “He said
that beating the Saddam Hussein regime militarily was quick and
it was lethal,” implying McCain knew the post-invasion would
be difficult. But McCain has displayed ignorance about that as
well:
“We’re not going to get into house-to-house fighting
in Baghdad. We may have to take out buildings, but we’re
not going to have a bloodletting of trading American bodies
for Iraqi bodies.” [CNN, 9/29/02]
“There’s not a history of clashes that are violent
between Sunnis and Shias. So I think they can probably get along.”
[MSNBC, 4/23/03]
McCain even reflected on the war last year and said, “it
was easy.” “Well, it was easy. It was easy. I said
we — a military operation would be easy. It was easy. We
were greeted as liberators,” he told Tim Russert on Meet
the Press in January 2007.
Not surprisingly, in his major national security address today,
McCain reflected: “I am an idealist.”
– Joshua Fryer
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