Facts are irrelevant

John McCain and his surrogates are making a dishonest attack on Mitt Romney. McCain would have us believe that in April Mitt Romney endorsed the Democrat plans for a timetable for withdrawal. He makes this attack by twisting Romney's words to make them mean the opposite of what the former governor actually meant.

Allah has the transcript of the Romney remarks in April:

QUESTION: Iraq. John McCain is there in Baghdad right now. You have also been very vocal in supporting the president and the troop surge. Yet, the American public has lost faith in this war. Do you believe that there should be a timetable in withdrawing the troops?

MR. ROMNEY: Well, there’s no question but that — the president and Prime Minister al-Maliki have to have a series of timetables and milestones that they speak about. But those shouldn’t be for public pronouncement. You don’t want the enemy to understand how long they have to wait in the weeds until you’re going to be gone. You want to have a series of things you want to see accomplished in terms of the strength of the Iraqi military and the Iraqi police, and the leadership of the Iraqi government.

QUESTION: So, private. You wouldn’t do it publicly? Because the president has said flat out that he will veto anything the Congress passes about a timetable for troop withdrawals. As president, would you do the same?

MR. ROMNEY: Well, of course. Can you imagine a setting where during the Second World War we said to the Germans, gee, if we haven’t reached the Rhine by this date, why, we’ll go home, or if we haven’t gotten this accomplished we’ll pull up and leave? You don’t publish that to your enemy, or they just simply lie in wait until that time. So, of course, you have to work together to create timetables and milestones, but you don’t do that with the opposition.

Now check out Lindsey Graham denying reality:



These are the same characters who brought us the amnesty bill this year and they are behaving the exact same way now as they did then. When they introduced the immigration bill they were smugly confident that they could simply repeat the words "this is not amnesty" over and over again. They thought they could do this and folks would fall in line and take their word for it. Things didn't quite work out that way then, and I hope and expect they won't this time either.