Some Facts Don't Fly
McCain: [You said Iraqi Prime Minister] Maliki and the president should enter into some kind of agreement for, quote, "timetables." Timetables was the buzzword for withdrawal.
This continues a fight that began just before the Florida primary, when McCain accused Romney of favoring "a date for withdrawal similar to what the Democrats are seeking." In last night's debate Romney said that "falls in[to] the kind of dirty tricks that I think Ronald Reagan would have found to be reprehensible."
The details are more complicated than either candidate allows. As we noted previously, Romney did give an interview with ABC News in which he said Bush and Maliki should agree on "a series of timetables and milestones" that they would keep between themselves. But Romney was asked in the same interview if he would veto, as Bush promised, any legislation sent to him that contained a timetable for troop withdrawals, and he said "yeah – well, of course."
McCain is off base in the implications he has been making: Romney never advocated for a particular date for withdrawal or a public date for withdrawal. In last night's debate, McCain retreated to less shaky ground, saying that Romney should've just said "no" when asked whether he thought there should be a timetable for withdrawing the troops.
However, Romney strains the facts when he said at the debate that in his ABC interview he had referred not to "timetables" for troop withdrawals, but instead to "a series of timetables and milestones for working on the progress that they're making, the progress we're making, the rule of law, what their soldiers are doing, what our soldiers are doing ... how many troops they're able to recruit, how well-trained are they." Maybe that's what he meant, but he didn't make that clear at the time. The question he was asked was about troop withdrawals:
Robin Roberts, ABC News (April 7, 2007): Do you believe that there should be a timetable in withdrawing the troops?
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Posted By: M_Whetstone @ 02/07/2008 3:33:20 PM
Comment: sorry, i didnt intend for this below to post three time, i dont know how that happened. Sorry again!
Posted By: M_Whetstone @ 02/07/2008 2:47:58 PM
Comment: I find it very interesting that with all the facts given by both McCain and Romney, they were wrong on many different areas of their own back patting. But because people are easily influenced by the most popular guy on the news that week they still seen to follow them like sick little puppy dogs. I understand that the news hates to give a "fair and balanced" view on anything that cannot benefit them financially, but i find it sickening when they completely ignore people that have their own voice and ideas that arent "main stream". People like Ron Paul will never be elected because there are other people out there that dont see the financial gain in supporting him. They'll even go as far as to cut him off in debates and try to exclude him all together. This is a flashback to the time when Harry Brown ran for office as Libertarian and the two "major" parties did everything in their power to make sure you as a people didnt hear thing that might benefit you as a whole. Ron Paul isnt that radical, he isnt crazy by any means, he just want to give everyone back what they've been loosing for years, your own identity and your ability to make decisions that make sense for you and you alone. As a whole we really need to think about why we spend so much time worrying about what everyone else is doing with their lives and start living their own. However, unless people in the main stream media openly support people like Ron Paul then this country will never be what it is truly supposed to be, free and independent and a mecca for individual civil liberties. So to those closed minded sheeple, keep following the herd and let them lead you nowhere.
Posted By: M_Whetstone @ 02/07/2008 2:47:43 PM
Comment: I find it very interesting that with all the facts given by both McCain and Romney, they were wrong on many different areas of their own back patting. But because people are easily influenced by the most popular guy on the news that week they still seen to follow them like sick little puppy dogs. I understand that the news hates to give a "fair and balanced" view on anything that cannot benefit them financially, but i find it sickening when they completely ignore people that have their own voice and ideas that arent "main stream". People like Ron Paul will never be elected because there are other people out there that dont see the financial gain in supporting him. They'll even go as far as to cut him off in debates and try to exclude him all together. This is a flashback to the time when Harry Brown ran for office as Libertarian and the two "major" parties did everything in their power to make sure you as a people didnt hear thing that might benefit you as a whole. Ron Paul isnt that radical, he isnt crazy by any means, he just want to give everyone back what they've been loosing for years, your own identity and your ability to make decisions that make sense for you and you alone. As a whole we really need to think about why we spend so much time worrying about what everyone else is doing with their lives and start living their own. However, unless people in the main stream media openly support people like Ron Paul then this country will never be what it is truly supposed to be, free and independent and a mecca for individual civil liberties. So to those closed minded sheeple, keep following the herd and let them lead you nowhere.