Polygraph for McCain?

In case you have not seen this article, "Israeli Reporter Challenges McCain To Polygraph Test, By David Bedein, The Bulletin", I'm posting the last three paragraphs from the article. I encourage you to go read it all.

Reached at his desk in Tel Aviv, Mr. Oren [Amir Oren, a credible journalist from the Israeli newspaper HaAretz] told The Bulletin that Mr. McCain is simply "not telling the truth", and that he would gladly invite him to a polygraph to see who is telling the truth. He said Mr. McCain indeed recommended Mr. Baker and Mr. Snowcroft as his potential candidates to deal with the Middle East, and that he clearly answered in the affirmative when it came to Mr. McCain's expectations of Israel, and how it should relate to further withdrawals. Mr. Oren said that Mr. McCain stated clearly that Israel's policy should be one of "defending itself and withdrawing, defending itself and withdrawing." Far from an off the cuff conversation, Mr. Oren told the Bulletin that this was a formal interview that Mr. McCain provided him at the the Brussels Forum for American-European Relations, following an interview that Mr. McCain provided to the Washington Post. Mr. Oren mentioned to the Bulletin that the interview was conducted in the presence of Mr. McCain's aide, Richard Fontaine.

Coming on an auspicious day when Israel faced more than 20 missile attacks from the Gaza area from which Israel withdrew its troops and citizens from only two years ago, at the insistence of the U.S. government, these words from Mr. McCain may not ring favorably with American voters who do not want Israel to be pushed by future American administrations. To conduct further withdrawals of troops and citizens to the 1967 lines - which would provide further areas in Judea and Samaria from which Palestinian terrorists would launch be able to launch further missile attacks on the vast majority of Israel's population, would be unacceptable to many. It would position Israeli citizens who live along the coastal region of Israel, inside the pre-1967 lines, between six and 12 miles from the hilly region that would come under Palestinian control - and Israel's only airport, in Lod, less than five miles from Palestinian missile sights.

Mr. Oren was clearly upset to hear Mr. McCain was challenging the veracity of the interview from two years ago. In Mr. Oren's words, Mr. McCain should "show the same courage on the campaign trail that he showed in Vietnam."

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Comments

[Aurora]

Great. Not only is he a Christian hater and a hothead bordering on psychopathic, he could also be anti-Israel. Though hardly surprising. If this is the best we can do as 300 million people trying to elect just one decent Conservative, someone is messing with the system big time.

[Skunkfeathers]

Why should Mr. Oren be surprised that McCain would backfill on what he said two years ago? Doesn't trying to play the populism card require ducking previous comments, aka Billary?