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Article: A separate reality.(Editorials)(McCain sees "encouraging signs" in Baghdad)(Editorial)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- April 5, 2007
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Byline: The Register-Guard
At some point on its journey from Washington, D.C., to Baghdad, Sen. John McCain's "Straight Talk Express" jumped the tracks and ended up somewhere over the rainbow.
McCain, whose military background and experience as a Vietnam prisoner of war has lent authority to his views on the Iraq war, didn't burnish his credibility during a press conference Sunday.
In a scene reminiscent of Baghdad Bob's famous televised announcement during the 2003 invasion that, "There is no presence of American infidels in the city of Baghdad" (as a U.S. tank rumbled by on camera just behind the Iraq minister of information), McCain cited ...