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While McCain wanders around lying about Mitt Romney's positions on Iraq, it's worth remembering that there was a time when McCain demanded we wave what he now calls "the white flag." Crooks and Liars puts us in the Wayback Machine:
1994 — “The right course of action is to make preparations as quickly as possible to bring our people home. It does not mean as soon as order is restored to Haiti, it doesn’t mean as soon as Democracy is flourishing in Haiti, it doesn’t mean as soon as we’ve established a viable nation in Haiti, as soon as possible means as soon as we can get out of Haiti without losing any American lives.” 1993 — “Date certain, Mr. President, are not the criteria here. What’s the criteria and what should be the criteria is our immediate, orderly withdrawal from Somalia. And if we don’t do that, and other Americans die, other Americans are wounded, other Americans are captured, because we stayed too long, longer than necessary, then I would say that the responsibilities for that lie with the Congress of the United States who did not exercise their authority under the Constitution of the United States and mandate that they be brought home as quickly and safely as possible.”McCain's hopes to talk himself straight into the White House. That's what straight talk is -- a campaign tactic. And if that means lying, or hacking away at his opponents, or shifting his position, so be it. That's politics. But the fact that he does it in a gruff voice and occasionally cracks a joke does not make it materially different from Romney's shifting of positions. The two of them are both liars. McCain's just better at it And that makes him more, not less, dangerous.
