Update: McCain - I Never Said That

As we noted just earlier today, Senator John McCain, the head non-White House cheerleader of the Iraq War, has been called out by CNN reporters for simply lying about how safe it is in Baghdad. When asked about it just hours ago on CNN, McCain lied again, saying that he never said these things, and equated the fact that the President goes around America with protection to the fact that no one can walk around anywhere in Baghdad without fear of being murdered unless they are heavily armored.

He also maintained the clearly erroneous line of right-wing spin that it's the media (and, by the way, a large majority of U.S. citizens) who are behind the curve when it comes to the great progress being made in Iraq:

"I mean that there are neighborhoods safe in Iraq and he does go out into Baghdad and the fact is there has been significant progress and people are stuck in a time warp of three months ago. Of course, it’s still dangerous. Of course it’s still very dangerous. We only have two of the five brigades there and we are already seeing significant progress."

The only significant progress being made is by the media itself, who are no longer rolling over when the Bush Administration and its warmongering cheerleaders claim that "all is well" in Iraq, and that we should keep sending our soldiers over there to die while policing a civil war which we in fact started.