I just tuned into this candidates forum thing, and McCain just blathered forth about what he would have done after 9/11 if he had been president.
How about we talk about what McCain actually did do after 9/11 though? Here he was in January 2002:
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) visited the Roosevelt yesterday and shouted, "Next up: Baghdad!" from the carrier's bridge.
McCain has been pushing the administration to make Iraq and its dictator, Saddam Hussein, the next targets in the war on terrorism.
Pentagon officials and Powell have cautioned against focusing on Baghdad, but McCain said yesterday that Iraq poses "a clear and present danger" to the U.S.
"I think Iraq is going to have to be considered," he said.
Now, McCain says he'd have appealed for national unity and service. Then, he appealed for war with Iraq.
What a fraud.
© Jed Lewison