Rolling Stone is calling John McCain a Make Believe Maverick. Rolling Stone’s new article labels John McCain a make believe maverick myth.

Here is an excerpt of the Rolling Stone Make Believe Maverick article:

“Over the next 15 months leading up to the invasion, McCain continued to lead the rush to war. In November 2002, Scheunemann set up a group called the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq at the same address as Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress. The groups worked in such close concert that at one point they got their Websites crossed. The CLI was established with explicit White House backing to sell the public on the war. The honorary co-chair of the committee: John Sidney McCain III.

“In September 2002, McCain assured Americans that the war would be “fairly easy” with an “overwhelming victory in a very short period of time.” On the eve of the invasion, Hardball host Chris Matthews asked McCain, “Are you one of those who holds up an optimistic view of the postwar scene? Do you believe that the people of Iraq, or at least a large number of them, will treat us as liberators?”

“McCain was emphatic: ‘Absolutely. Absolutely.’”

“By August of 2006 as he was getting ready to run for president again, McCain’s was suddenly claiming, “The American people were led to believe this could be some kind of day at the beach, which many of us fully understood from the beginning would be a very, very difficult undertaking.”

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