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ClydeR
09-04-2008, 07:50 PM
I wrote about McCain's secret plan to capture Bin Laden (http://forum.gsplayers.com/showpost.php?p=782785&postcount=3) several weeks ago. Yesterday, McCain repeated it. He really does have a secret plan, but he won't tell unless we elect him.


Last night, ABC News' Charlie Gibson asked John McCain to respond to a line from Barack Obama's acceptance speech last week.



GIBSON: Serious reaction to this statement: "John McCain says he'd follow bin Laden to the gates of hell, but he won't even follow him to the cave where he lives."

MCCAIN: Well, look, President Clinton [had] opportunities to get Osama bin Laden. President Bush had opportunities to get Osama bin Laden. I know how to do it and I'll do it.
I've noticed that McCain has been using similar rhetoric for quite a while. In June, he declared at a town-hall forum, "I will look you in the eye and promise you that I will get Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice." In January, McCain hinted that he has a secret plan to get the al Qaeda leader.

Maybe the bravado will work on some voters. It's possible people want to hear McCain "promise" to "get" bin Laden. His line -- "I know how to do it and I'll do it" -- may even sound compelling, just so long as you don't think about it too much.

If McCain knows how to get OBL, why not share his ideas with, say, the White House and the Pentagon? That way, the plan could be implemented now and the al Qaeda leader could be brought to justice before he could launch additional attacks.

Expanding on this subject in January, McCain added that he has his "own ideas" about capturing bin Laden, but it would "require implementation of certain policies and procedures that only as the president of the United States can be taken."

But if there are "certain policies and procedures" that could lead to OBL's capture, and a president could implement those policies and procedures now, why wouldn't McCain stop by the Oval Office for a chat with the Commander in Chief about how best to proceed?

It's probably because McCain doesn't "know how to do it" and there is no secret plan. He's just making foolish promises with the hopes that Americans fall for his nonsense.

More... (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/04/politics/animal/main4416697.shtml)

I wonder if McCain told Sarah Palin. She would need to know in case something happened to McCain before he could complete the plan.

Khariz
09-04-2008, 08:01 PM
He's got the plans outlined in a safe deposit box, and his will tells who to give the plans to in case he dies.

Warriorbird
09-04-2008, 08:02 PM
The whole 'Secret Plan' shtick echo's political shenanigans from Nixon back when McCain was young, y'know, back in the 1960's.

Daniel
09-04-2008, 08:11 PM
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that if there was a policy that needed to be enacted to catch Bin Laden, then Bush would have done it or at least tried to.

Khariz
09-04-2008, 08:28 PM
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that if there was a policy that needed to be enacted to catch Bin Laden, then Bush would have done it or at least tried to.

Yup.

Mabus
09-04-2008, 08:31 PM
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that if there was a policy that needed to be enacted to catch Bin Laden, then Bush would have done it or at least tried to.
I agree.

I believe Obama, McCain, Palin, Biden or anyone else running that gets elected will do whatever they can to catch that SOB. What he did knows no party, and we as a country (or his own death) will get him, eventually.

Daniel
09-04-2008, 08:36 PM
I'd like to add an alibi: Unless it's unfathomably stupid, like invading Pakistan.

Back
09-04-2008, 08:39 PM
I agree.

I believe Obama, McCain, Palin, Biden or anyone else running that gets elected will do whatever they can to catch that SOB. What he did knows no party, and we as a country (or his own death) will get him, eventually.

Agreed.

ClydeR
09-04-2008, 09:51 PM
I believe Obama, McCain, Palin, Biden or anyone else running that gets elected will do whatever they can to catch that SOB. What he did knows no party, and we as a country (or his own death) will get him, eventually.

The key phrase is "whatever they can." McCain says that he knows of specific policies and procedures that need to be taken to capture Bin Laden. Obama has never said that. If McCain is telling the truth about having secret plan and if his secret plan is any good, then whatever McCain can do is more than whatever Obama can do.

Someone who wants to put the "country first," as McCain claims to want to do, should share the secret plan with the current president instead of waiting to claim all the glory for himself if he is elected. And if McCain is not elected, I just hope that he will put the country first and share the secret plan with Obama.

Back
09-04-2008, 10:05 PM
The key phrase is "whatever they can." McCain says that he knows of specific policies and procedures that need to be taken to capture Bin Laden. Obama has never said that. If McCain is telling the truth about having secret plan and if his secret plan is any good, then whatever McCain can do is more than whatever Obama can do.

Someone who wants to put the "country first," as McCain claims to want to do, should share the secret plan with the current president instead of waiting to claim all the glory for himself if he is elected. And if McCain is not elected, I just hope that he will put the country first and share the secret plan with Obama.

This points out politicalization (a person seeking office) before country.

droit
09-04-2008, 11:13 PM
I bet his secret plan to catch Osama Bin Laden is to send more troops to Iraq.

Any takers?

Mabus
09-05-2008, 12:42 AM
The key phrase is "whatever they can." McCain says that he knows of specific policies and procedures that need to be taken to capture Bin Laden. Obama has never said that..
Sure he did. He even believes he knows which "cave" McCain should search.

They probably even share tailors in Kenya.
;)

BigWorm
09-05-2008, 12:45 AM
I'd like to add an alibi: Unless it's unfathomably stupid, like invading Pakistan.

Looks like the first step has already been taken: http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/09/04/us.pakistan/

Parkbandit
09-05-2008, 09:33 AM
The whole 'Secret Plan' shtick echo's political shenanigans from Nixon back when McCain was young, y'know, back in the 1960's.

I agree. It's bullshit, much like the 2006 Democratic "Plan" to lower gas prices..

Just because people say they have a plan, doesn't really mean they HAVE a plan.

Daniel
09-05-2008, 09:38 AM
Looks like the first step has already been taken: http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/09/04/us.pakistan/

Yea. That's exactly why I posted that. Fostering instability in a predominately Muslim country with nuclear weapons is not the way to win the War on Terror.

Parkbandit
09-05-2008, 09:43 AM
I bet his secret plan to catch Osama Bin Laden is to send more troops to Iraq.

Any takers?

I'll take that bet. How much?