McCain Further Distances from ’100 Year’ Remark, Says ‘War Will Be Over Soon’

Newsflash, McCain is the only one who could really get the troops home quickly. I don’t really like McCain, but if you need to win over a mojroity in the congress and senate to get the troops home quick, he’s the only one who could even possibly turn republicans over to support it. No democrat could pull that much support for soemthing that seems like “cut and run”. The democrats can talk about bringing them home, but it will be a struggle against the republicans, but a war hero and republican can do it with much less struggle. Just a thought.

LOL The peanut in the Republisheeps’ heads are going to explode trying to figure out they can still spin themselves as being more (gag) ‘patriotic’ than the rest of us . . .

McBushcain is a flip-flopping liar.
He dosen’t know what to do with himself
if he isn’t in a war.
If we elect him, we’ll be in a war the
whole time he’s in office!!!!
Out with the Republicans!!
We want peace! We want a Democrat!

I wonder if statement that “the war will soon be over” for the US is a break from his support of the current “stay the course” strategy; or if this is just something a politician says to tell people what he thinks they wanna to hear.
Irak does not exist as a single separate entity without an external referee or central strongman. And it seems that if we withdraw to the desert and sit on the sidelines, the goal of a unified centralized Irak ends.
Someone should ask Bush what he thinks about McCain’s comments and if he thinks there is little more that the US can do for the Irakis.

cynic says – “I do not think the president needs congressional approval to bring the troops home. what makes you think he does.”
I think the point was that Dems usually wimp out when it comes to Irak.

I wonder if McCain remembers everything he told his N. Vietnamese captors either? Or who he talked to about helping about his corporate broadcasting friends and S & L buddies. So help us God we don’t need another Bush who has trouble flying a plane.

cynic:
Do you trust Clinton?
She says: “when she’s elected as Pres……she’ll start bring our troops (i.e., ‘some of them’) home.” Gotta watch the definition of words with them.
Who the *** knows what O would do. Sayin and Doin are two different things.

man who flips flop is soon eaten fish…

Commander asks if I trust Clinton. Not completly, but I trust her more than I trust the other candidates. Do you trust any politician? The trouble with the current pres is he thinks he is above the law. but isn’t that what McCain is saying about his flip flop on campaign finance. I’ll obey it when I need the money and then disregard it when I do not.

My cousin’s son got home from Iraq in November 2007 after being there a year or two (second deployment). She says his orders say that he will be sent to Afganistan this time, in December 2008. All they do is take some troops out and make the doofuses out there think that the troops are “comin’ home”, then they turn around and send them back a second, third time. Does this sound you all like the US is going to “pull out” troops? It sure doesn’t to me. The public is being brainwashed.

Obama wants to pull them out of Iraq and into Afghanistan, Pakistan, and even IRAN… can you say “shell game?”

My buddy just retired from the National Guard after several tours over in Iraq and Afghanistan. His unit got home last fall, and now it’s being sent to Kosovo. KOSOVO. And people claim we’re not trying to be the world’s policeman?
What the Iraq war supporters don’t understand is this: getting out NOW is not “cutting and running” (please stop employing such an overused phrase). It’s just an acknowledgment that the Iraqis are failing to live up to their end of the bargain. They quite obviously do not want “democracy” as much as some people had hoped.
If they did, they’d be fighting for it, tooth and nail, just like our founders did. They’re not doing that, so why should we waste our blood and treasure on them?

So McCain which is it? one time it’s going to be an extended war and now it’s going to end soon. You notice we haven’t forgot.

George W. McCain, the lobbyists’ best friend in Washington, flip-flopper, hot-head and possible philanderer, now is attempting to backpedal on Iraq.
NO WAY, McCain — you OWN it. Deal with it.

The guy’s a crackpot. I have enormous respect for the senator until he opens his mouth and the nonsense pours forth. He spent too much time in Hanoi Hilton and was warped (just like anyone else would be who suffered that).

Did you see the news story today about the Bush-McCain Republicans wanting to keep 140,000 troops in Iraq indefinitely, even though we only had 130,000 troops there before the allegedly “temporary” surge?
These people are fraudulent, immoral and duplicitous beyond belief. Every one of them ought to be brought up on charges for lying to Congress. Another neocon shell game, plain and simple.
And John McCain is just another lousy, duplicitous neocon, like Bush.

I hope Dems will play ad nauseam the clip where McCain joyfully belts out to the Barbara Ann tune:
”
Bomb Bomb Bomb,
Bomb bomb Iran…
”
Iraqu is old nes – they’ve got to make it clear that this guy is going to go to war with Iran.
Like that’s just what our economy needs.

McCain: While his Reform Institute was taking in donations in hundreds of thousands of dollars from Companies that were LOBBYING the Senate Commerce Committee, McCain was a member of that same Senate Commerce Committee. In 2005 year when it was reported that he might be up to 4 years of violation of his ‘MCCAIN-FEINGOLD ACT’ (he co-authored in 2002), he severed his ties with his Non profit Reform Institute which he founded in 2001. After that, McCain did what all Republicans do, BLAMED THE MEDIA. We need change. The only way to have Real Change is to move away from the OLD POLITICS. Obama08

I respect McCain, but I don’t believe he has the tact or understanding to deal with Iraq in the right way.
I mean, how do you kill an ideology?

I respect John McCain but, in Senator McCain I see a great hero who struggles to maintain his composure. I see a Candidate who has shown time and again how he loses his presence of mind and temper over little things that are out of his control. I see a Candidate who could lead us to premature preemptive action when delicate diplomacy is required. I see a Candidate who will make a tense situation worse. I see a Candidate who needs a staff to manage him. How can we have a President who struggles to handle the little things and think he will somehow be different facing Vladmir Putin or Ahmadenajad?

McCain has a mouth. Mouth = not presidential material. He too easily displays that old adage about “if the only tool in the box is a hammer then every problem tends to look like a nail”.

John McCain brags about his service on the commerce committee. For the past thirty years China has been deliberately seducing our industries into literally moving their production machinery to China.
What Senate committee oversaw that operation?
And he is a Patriot?

Whatever McCain says is the timeline for getting out of Iraq, be sure to add six months to that deadline. That’s when we will be turning the corner.

Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Vermont plese vote for Mike Huckabee.
McCain will only further ruin the Republican party. Let him stay as a Senator.

Try to remember what McCain said a month ago when it would be at least a decade before we could leave Iraq.

We are supposed to jump for joy when John McCain says “We will succeed in this conflict”? We have been asking for 5 long years what success will look like. John McCain sure isn’t telling us. Does “soon” mean 100 years? This sounds an awful lot like stay the course to me.

You folks who think that “winning” in Iraq is so important — volunteer to go there! Oh, thats right, you are Republicans (Chickenhawks). If you won’t fight, how about paying higher taxes to help build all those roads and schools and hospitals in Iraq? Oh yeah, you are Republicans, you won’t pay taxes either. The Warmongers are too cheap and too cowardly to actually DO anything except whine and thump their chests. We can win in Iraq if we bring back the draft, starting with Republicans. I’d love to see how fast opposition to the war would grow if the cowardly College Republicans faced spending even a week in Iraq, even after 5 years of progress and success.

Must every comment by McCain include the words, “My friends”? I’m not sure what irritates me more. When he says those two words, or when I see his wife standing next to him, looking at him with that ice cold glare.

McCain promises to increase troop levels, and he adamantly opposes any timetable for withdrawal. At a town hall meeting in New Hampshire on January 3, 2008, McCain went so far as to declare that it would be “fine with me” if American troops remained in Iraq for “maybe a hundred years.”
Unfortunately for McCain, a large majority of the American people — including significant numbers of Republicans — strongly disagree with his positions on the war.
A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll from February 1-3, 2008, reported that 64% of adults nationwide oppose the war in Iraq, while only 34% favor the war — despite the fact that 52% agree that the U.S. military “may be making progress in improving conditions in Iraq and bringing an end to the violence in that country.”
A Rasmussen Reports poll from January 29, 2008, reported that 59% of Americans want U.S. troops to be brought home from Iraq immediately or within one year, while only 35% want U.S. troops to remain in Iraq “until the mission is complete.” According to this poll, not only do 80% of Democrats favor withdrawal within a year, so do 38% of Republicans.
Similarly, a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll from January 18-22, 2008, reported that 63% of registered voters think the United States should withdraw its troops from Iraq right away or within the next year, including 90% of Democrats, 66% of independents, and 32% of Republicans.
It is clear that even with the undeniable success of the surge in reducing sectarian and terrorist violence in Iraq, most Americans — including large numbers of Republicans — prefer to end the war (which, at this point, would be better described as a police action or peacekeeping mission) and bring our troops home. Yet, unless McCain changes his publicly stated position on Iraq, a vote for McCain is a vote to continue and even expand the war. Given that the Iraq War is (currently) the second most important issue on the minds of voters, after the economy, this does not bode well for McCain this November.

McCain will win!!!
I am glad that he has a military background to run our country. Yes, we will have troops in the middle east for a long time. The same that we have troops all over the world. Thank God that we have some young boys that are willing to beome MEN by protecting the writers in the blog.
If it wasn’t for the brave boys, women & men who volunteered to fight in WWII, you would be speaking German or Japanese at the present time.
At the present time we are fighting the maniacs that are trying to take over the world because of their religion beliefs. McCAIN ALL THE WAY!!!

John A says: – “At the present time we are fighting the maniacs that are trying to take over the world because of their religion beliefs. McCAIN ALL THE WAY!!!”
Dude books are your friends.
In Irak we are tamping down sectarian/ethnic civil strife in an artificially contrived state hoping that a strong central government will someday form and take over for US.
Irak is not Germany. Irak was created after the ottoman empire collapsed out of three disparate provinces. Our presence there now is to put humpty dumpty back to together. And, btw, OBL ain’t ever gonna take over the world. He ain’t Iraqi and lives in a cave, man.
I don’t think anyone is gonna argue about killing terrorists, but there is a difference between principled and smart foriegn policy and fighting dumb.
Vote for McC or don’t vote for McC, but reading is good for you. Comments like yours don’t look too smart.
And just how long do you propose keeping US troops in Irak and how are you gonna pay for it?

Look! An yet to report marine recruit talking smack on a news forum because, from his marine recruit’s standpoint, certain posters are not showing enough respect for McCain’s warrior pedigree.
Shouldn’t you be studying, like a good larval marine? Have you memorized the different ranks yet, tough guy? How about the “11 General Orders for a Sentry”?
One’s thing for sure, if you don’t wash out in basic, you’ll grow up enough to not be making bossy and shallow bravado laced posts to news forums.
Good luck, I suspect you’ll need it.

When will the Democrats demand an end to our irresponsible, interminable military presence in Germany, where we have been bogged down in a “quagmire” since 1945?

Why Iraq Was a Mistake
In 1971, the rock group The Who released the antiwar anthem Won’t Get Fooled Again. To most in my generation, the song conveyed a sense of betrayal by the nation’s leaders, who had led our country into a costly and unnecessary war in Vietnam. To those of us who were truly counterculture–who became career members of the military during those rough times–the song conveyed a very different message. To us, its lyrics evoked a feeling that we must never again stand by quietly while those ignorant of and casual about war lead us into another one and then mismanage the conduct of it. Never again, we thought, would our military’s senior leaders remain silent as American troops were marched off to an ill-considered engagement. It’s 35 years later, and the judgment is in: the Who had it wrong. We have been fooled again.
From 2000 until October 2002, I was a Marine Corps lieutenant general and director of operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. After 9/11, I was a witness and therefore a party to the actions that led us to the invasion of Iraq–an unnecessary war. Inside the military family, I made no secret of my view that the zealots’ rationale for war made no sense. And I think I was outspoken enough to make those senior to me uncomfortable. But I now regret that I did not more openly challenge those who were determined to invade a country whose actions were peripheral to the real threat–al-Qaeda. I retired from the military four months before the invasion, in part because of my opposition to those who had used 9/11′s tragedy to hijack our security policy. Until now, I have resisted speaking out in public. I’ve been silent long enough.
I am driven to action now by the missteps and misjudgments of the White House and the Pentagon, and by my many painful visits to our military hospitals. In those places, I have been both inspired and shaken by the broken bodies but unbroken spirits of soldiers, Marines and corpsmen returning from this war. The cost of flawed leadership continues to be paid in blood. The willingness of our forces to shoulder such a load should make it a sacred obligation for civilian and military leaders to get our defense policy right. They must be absolutely sure that the commitment is for a cause as honorable as the sacrifice.
With the encouragement of some still in positions of military leadership, I offer a challenge to those still in uniform: a leader’s responsibility is to give voice to those who can’t–or don’t have the opportunity to–speak. Enlisted members of the armed forces swear their oath to those appointed over them; an officer swears an oath not to a person but to the Constitution. The distinction is important.

McCain was a War hero, but now turned politician long time, with age catching up with him. He therefore say one thing now without givinmg it more thought and later to be saying another thing. this behaviour is a Sign of an OLd age. Whether we like it or not The so call LAW of DIMINISHING Return is now taking it talls. I believe McCain will once be nutured withy whatever hwe will be saying when next, but my fear is that hope he will not take a judgement later to regret it. The same as in the vote for iraq war. this is the way Lobysts worked and knowingly there will be A BIg Return back in his pocket. As such Anything goes the moment the DOSH is waiting.
He is a war Hero, alredy being turned in and around, this alone may be taking its talls on him. while shall we be Risking the LIfe of many Americans in the hand of a Flip, Floper, who only concern with thje big money spinning.