Obama and McCain are contradicting each other - someone lying. Who is it?
Update: During a discussion about meeting with Iran, on September 20, Henry Kissinger said:
Initially, yes. And I always believed that the best way to begin a negotiation is to tell the other side exactly what you have in mind and what you are — what the outcome is that you’re trying to achieve so that they have something that they can react to.
Now, the permanent members of the Security Council, plus Japan and Germany, have all said nuclear weapons in Iran are unacceptable. They’ve never explained what they mean by this. So if we go into a negotiation, we ought to have a clear understanding of what is it we’re trying to prevent. What is it going to do if we can’t achieve what we’re talking about?
But I do not believe that we can make conditions for the opening of negotiations. We ought, however, to be very clear about the content of negotiations and work it out with other countries and with our own government.
Tonight after the debate, Kissinger said to the Weekly Standard:
Senator McCain is right. I would not recommend the next President of the United States engage in talks with Iran at the Presidential level. My views on this issue are entirely compatible with the views of my friend Senator John McCain. We do not agree on everything, but we do agree that any negotiations with Iran must be geared to reality.
However, Kissinger did previously offer what appear to be a contradictory statement. We’re waiting on a transcript of the debate to assess McCain’s statements.
September 27th, 2008 at 2:51 am
McCain is confusing Obama’s stance that meeting with other countries mean ONLY Obama himself. This is not Obama’s intention. I don’t think it’s a ie on either side, but more of McCain using misspeak to keep saying Obama means only himself in these talks.