McCain in Waziristan?

well that was really funny…. Perhaps Palin can do better as she is lives close to russia (in winter can even walk there…. )… she understand a better geopolitics hopefully…
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Don’t forget that he made assertions that we need to properly train interrogators so we don’t torture again…meaning he just admitted we tortured before?

It’s hard to imaging McCain’s motorcade taking in the tourist sites in Waziristan.

Hi Teru,

I shouted out “fact check!” when he asserted that.
Yes, and I wonder if Nawaz Sharif considered his
country as failed when Musharraf staged a coup.
Perhaps he travelled in a kevlar bubble.

But, hey, it played well in Barstow, Waco and
at the Palin house and that is who he was aiming
for with those comments. So bull’s eye!

Cheers,

James.

You can see Afghanistan from Waziristan!

You can see North Korea quite well from South Korea, but
that is not the same thing as being in it. No better yet,
I can declare in McCain fashion that I have actually stood
in North Korea (inside the silly room in Panmunjom where
DPRK soldiers will declare you a defector if you wave to
them). I never saw the light of day there though, but it
is a factually accurate statment. McCain lives in the
shadowy world of factually accurate statements and
plausible deniability built into parsed words. Nice
work, if you can get it.

I believe I actually saw Waziristan from around Jalalabad
but I was most certainly not in the tribal region.
Certainly Tora Bora is visible, and I most certainly
did not nose around there.

McCain is either bending the truth or was surrounded
by an arsenal like he was in Baghdad several years
ago when he famously declared, helicopters above, three
rings of security, kevlar vest on that “look, Baghdad
is safe enough to walk around (with a batallion of
armed soldiers and sharp shooters guarding your every
step)”.

Nope. I don’t buy it.

Fact check!

How John McCain Name-Dropped Waziristan and Misunderstood Pakistan

John McCain’s Pakistan-Waziristan Howlers

Did John McCain Visit Waziristan?

Can’t they see Alaska and Arizona both from mountain peeks of Waziristan on a good day? ;)))))…….

and these peeps good god, which i guess, since im american are my peeps too, “represent” the “best and the brightest” and the “shining light of the free world”…

the worst thing too is that most of the electorate is going to think Waziristan is some kind of euphamism…

egads….

fingers crossed for a good outcome in november…

hi all – thanks for the feedback. I’ve been told by a Pakistan -based journalist that McCain did indeed visit Waziristan, as part of a congressional delegation – helicoptered into the FATA by the Pakistani military. Unclear on when this happened, or if the delegation actually landed, or just flew over a piece of the terrain. At any rate, it sounds like he would have “been there” for a matter of minutes or hours.

Hi Teru,

That makes perfect sense.

Thanks.

Best,

James.