Mccain's Pot Calling Obama Kettle Black

McCain Says Obama Plays Politics on Iraq Some Fellow Republicans Question Tactics

By Juliet Eilperin Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, July 28, 2008; A08

In his most direct challenge yet of his Democratic presidential rival's Iraq policy, Sen. John McCain suggested yesterday that Sen. Barack Obama had crafted a war strategy designed to further his own political advancement.

McCain also intimated that Obama skipped a visit of wounded U.S. troops in Germany last week because it would not generate sufficient publicity for his campaign, a charge that the Republican made the centerpiece of a new television ad.

Obama's call for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, McCain said, "was political" and was made "in order to help him get the nomination of his party." --read entire article-- _______________________________________________________________ What is that, old-age grouchiness, John? You have made the entire thrust of your candidacy a matter of rubber-stamping the continuance of Bush's Iraq…