From The Teleghraph, 8/24/06:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/08/24/wmccain24.xml
Bush accused of hoodwinking America
By Francis Harris in Washington
A leading supporter of the Iraq war has accused President George W
Bush of trying to hoodwink Americans into believing the campaign would
be "a day at the beach".
Senator John McCain, a Republican who is expected to run for the
presidency in two years' time, focused his anger on statements from Mr
Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, the defence secretary, and the vice-president,
***** Cheney, since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein three years ago.
Americans, he said, "were led to believe this could be some kind of
day at the beach, which many of us fully understood from the beginning
would be a very, very difficult undertaking."
Mr McCain then listed the most controversial sound-bites offered by
the men in charge of the Iraq campaign since then:
'Stuff happens', 'mission accomplished', 'last throes', 'a few
dead-enders'.
"I'm just more familiar with those statements than anyone else because
it grieves me so much that we had not told the American people how
tough and difficult this task would be," he said.
The war in Iraq has killed 2,613 American and 115 British troops, as
well as more than 30,000 Iraqis.
The lowest estimates suggest that the Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns
have cost American taxpayers at least $400 billion but some experts
say the real figure could be close to $1 trillion.
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Crocodile tears from John "liar" McCain.
Harry
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