McCain hits Obama on his politics of fraud

AFP:

Republican John McCain Thursday portrayed his possible Democratic presidential election rival Barack Obama as a national security neophyte who was dishonestly misrepresenting him on Iraq.

Intensifying his assault, McCain questioned Obama's plan to leave a "strike force" of US troops in the Middle East after an eventual withdrawal from Iraq, and accused him of being "disingenuous" about his own Iraq stance.

Obama, who has pledged to end the war in Iraq in 2009, if he is elected, said this week that he would leave enough troops in the country to defend the US embassy, along with a strike force in the region to hobble Al-Qaeda.

"I think somebody ought to ask what in the world he's talking about, especially since he has no experience or background at all in national security affairs," McCain said in an MSNBC interview.

McCain also hit out at Obama for claiming he wants to wage a 100 year war in Iraq, saying he was deliberately taking his remarks about a South Korea or Japan-style multi-generational peacekeeping presence out of context.

"Senator Obama is being disingenuous, because he knows better."

In a Fox News interview, McCain said Obama was being "dishonest."

"No one could have interpreted that exchange as me saying that we are going to be in a war for 100 years. And so for Senator Obama to interpret (it) that way is obviously willful distortion."

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Obama seems rattled by these attacks. Democrats have gotten so used to President Bush not fighting back against their political fraud that they have continued it into this campaign and it is not working. It will only get worse for Obama as more scrutiny is brought to his ignorance of warfare and national security.

The Democrat campaign has not prepared him for a real test on this question because his opponents for the nomination have been playing the same political con job on the war. His so called trump card about being against the war in 2003 is meaningless when it comes to the current facts on the ground and how to deal with them. His statements on the Anbar Awakening demonstrate how laughably uninformed he is about Iraq and the dynamics within that country.