McCain Says Al-Qaeda Preparing to Strike Before Election

[steve2470]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ah2V7py15A7A&refer=home

By Lorraine Woellert

July 18 (Bloomberg) -- Republican presidential candidate John McCain warned that al-Qaeda will step up terrorist attacks in Iraq leading up to the November election in the U.S.

``Al-Qaeda is on their heels but not defeated,'' McCain said today at a town hall meeting with General Motors workers in Warren, Michigan. ``I also predict that they will make an attempt, as we get into election season, to make more of these spectacular kinds of attacks'' by suicide bombers to destabilize the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.

McCain, an Arizona senator, has spent much of this week touting his foreign policy and war experience while Democratic rival Barack Obama prepared for a trip to the Middle East. McCain has criticized Obama, an Illinois senator, for vowing to withdraw troops from Iraq within 16 months of taking office. McCain said the deployment of extra U.S. troops to Iraq last year has worked.

``Senator Obama said the surge would fail. He still fails to admit that it has succeeded,'' McCain said in response to a question from the audience. ``I am confident we will win.'

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[no_hypocrisy]

1. Well, damn! Now it won't be a surprise!

[NightWatcher]

2. does McSame mean "the base" (translation of al qaeda) or "his base"

does he know, think, or HOPE that this will happen.

[FreakinDJ]

3. Would be different then the last 2 attacks

directly AFTER the newly elected president was sworn into office

[speedoo]

4. Desperation is not pleasant. nt

[librechik]

5. Cheney told him personally.

October SURPRISE!

[Epiphany4z]

6. How can he call

the surge a success if violence is going to increase? bangs head on desk!!! please make it end!! please!

[bdamomma]

7. FEAR FEAR AND MORE FEAR.

oh, McCain, do you have inside information from Dick perhaps?

[Webster Green]

8. "The Surge"

What a fucking idiot :rofl:

[Dollface]

9. And Mcsame still fails to admit that going to Iraq was a mistake. .. and that Bush is an idiot, and

that Cheney is a criminal and that Rumsfeld is a liar and that Katrina was a disaster and that 9-11 happened on Republican watch, and that Rice ignored Richard Clark's and Al Gore's warnings about Al Qaeda, and that Enron was helped by the Gramms and that Reagan started us down the road to the current banking crisis.... (There are about 350 more but I have to go back to work)