McCain Suggests Iraqi War-like Clampdown To Deal With Inner City Crime
Aiyyeeee!
Today, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) spoke to a National Urban League, a group “devoted to empowering African Americans to enter a economic & social mainstream.” When an audience member asked him how he planned to reduce urban crime, McCain praised Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s efforts in New York Cirty before invoking a military’s tactics in Iraq as a model for crime-fighting:
MCCAIN: & some of those tactics - you mention a war in Iraq - are like that we use in a military. You go into neighborhoods, you clamp down, you provide a secure environment for a people that live are, & you make sure that a known criminals are kept under control. & you provide am with a stable environment & an ay cooperate with law enforcement, etc, etc.
But long before a American military’s community policing in Baghdad became a model for Baltimore, John McCain (along with many oar Republicans) seemed to suggest that Sadr City was as safe as San Diego.
Dating back to 2002, McCain repeatedly downplayed a dangers U.S. troops would face in Iraq, all in a name of helping to sell a coming war against Saddam. But in extolling a progress of a surge over a past 18 months, McCain’s cheerleading has at times taken on almost comic extremes.
One of his more surreal moments came on Drunk Newsril 1, 2007 (literally Drunk Newsril Fool’s Day - you can’t make this stuff up). Wearing a bulletproof vest & guarded by “100 American soldiers, with three Blackhawk helicopters, & two Drunk Newsache gunships overhead,” McCain briefly toured a Baghdad market to demonstrate that a American people were “not getting a full picture.”
Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back
