Obama Continues to Twist Truth About Twisting Truth

Obama’s greatest experience is in ‘lying to the American people’.
Had Obama been in the U.S. Senate and spoken against the Iraq War vote and voted against it, then I would consider that a suitable comparison to how Hillary stood on that vote.
OBAMA WASN’T A SENATOR WHEN WE WENT TO WAR! Unless one is in a particular legislative body under the same conditions and factors, you cannot compare two decisions straight up. The question is who will make the right decisions from here on.
Obama has spent his entire time as a Senator—running for President! If he can’t do his Senate job—he surely can’t lead our country. Obama has told so many lies that he is not credible.
Hillary ’08.

Why is it twisting words? He said he was comfortable being in Iraq for 100 years. Oh as long as american soldiers are not being killed. Duh, but our troops are in an active combat zone and are dying. He also started singing Bomb Bomb Iran when asked about diplomacy with Iran. Come on you are splitting hairs about someone clearly mongering for war – McSame.

US Military presence in Iraq to prevent a civil war will continue to provoke periodic attacks from extremists no matter how long we are there. These folks are arguing about centuries old disputes. So, you may argue about whether we will be at war or not for the next 100 years but the fact is as long as we are there there will be casualities. If history has taught us one thing about the middle east foreigners have never been able to create stability there. It will always be a sham with sects waiting for the next opportunity to strike. It is time to call an end to this folly.

I am waiting for McCain’s campaign to just HAMMER Obama and smack him behind his big wet ears. Hasn’t Obama himself said a troop pullout will be slow and he can see troops remaining as a presence for many years (OK, that’s 100, but the idea is virtually the same; the U.S. needs to be a steadying force in the region)?
I want McCain to just blast Obama for this — and I’m pleased that a reporter has finally called him on his two-faced approach to campaigning and his loose affiliation with the truth.

look, obama distorts truth, sure, but as a Clinton supporter you cannot be ignorant to the fact that so does Hillary. I support Obama, I’ve never actually supported a candidate before, but I also feel like he is still a politician. So if you would like to suggest that barack is not credible because of his “lies” then I dont think anyone in Washington is credible, especially Clinton. To me the difference is in their person, I feel like Obama is a real person who really cares, and doesnt have a personal agenda. Just my thoughts. Thanks

The Us has troops in almost every country in the world. Having troops in a country is different than being at war with a country or occupying it.
The fact that the US had troopsin Saudi Arabia was the justification for the 9/11 attacks by Al Quaeda. The US was not at war with Saudi Arabia.
Obama is definately twisting what McCain had to say.
In all honesty, there probably will be some US troops in the region for decades, no matter what Administration or Party is in power in Washington, which is all McCain was trying to point out.

SMS: We deserve everything we get if Obama becomes the president. And God help us. This country would become a disaster worse than what Bush put us into. Obama doesn’t have the intelligence to run any country let alone America and I hope the white people wake up to that fact. Let’s hope that he doesn’t win the nomination, but if he does, McCain will knock him down to size. McCain will get a landslide and make America happy.

So the surge is working according to Petraeus’s testimony….
will this help Obama?

Mike: If you think Obama has the intelligence to run this country you must be living a dream. He doesn’t have enough brains for day one. You may believe the lies he tells but the battleground states didn’t that’s why he never won them. Their smart, they did the right thing. He won nickel and dime states that don’t care about America that’s why they voted for him. And he wouldn’t win the battleground states in a general election, they would vote for McCain. This generation would vote for him if he had a prison record because they don’t know better. They think they know about politicians but you can tell they know nothing when they give their vote to him. His speeches are based on others and his added words to those speeches are nothing but lies. And guess who would be coming to dinner? Wright, Farrakhan, Rezko and whoever else is anti-american.

Has McCain ever said when the war and killings of Americans will be over? So i guess these statements are not that far off iMcCain wants to continue a war in Iraq perhaps as long as 100 years.” At the Cleveland, Ohio, presidential debate, Obama said the U.S. is “bogged down in a war that John McCain now suggests might go on for another 100 years.” In Houston, Texas, on February 19, Obama said that McCain “says that he is willing to send our troops into another 100 years of war in Iraq.”
ts mark.

The implications of McCain’s statement certainly could include 100 years of war. Yes, McCain used the qualifier “as long as our troops aren’t being shot and killed” – and I’m sure he meant that – but tell that to the Iraqi’s.
Those broad implications include a sniper situation for as long as we have presence there.
Twisting the truth is a bit strong here – we’re talking more about interpretation.

How about when Bush said that Obama wanted to bomb Pakistan and make friends with Ahmadenijad? That was quite a mischaracterization, but you didn’t write about that!
Think of all the bull that Bush told about Kerry in 04! This is politics. Get over it.
The fact is—Americans don’t want to be in Iraq for 100 years. You may be working as hard as possible to discredit Democratic candidates, but the American people are not buying it.

Hi-liar-y, keeps lying and keeps getting caught, the three of these people running lie, she is the worst one…

I dont want any more Americans Killed.
We need to leave as soon as possible and let the Iraqi People fight their own civil war like we fought for ours..When their civil war is over then if we believe having a base there is a good and a betterment for all then by all means okay. But Not while we are targets from the Terrorists.

John
I am Listening to it. It still doesnt mean th OUR Solidiers are not DYING. Let the Iraqi’s Fight their own Civil War.. Just Like We Did. Bring OUR troops Home.

Senator Obama is right. Iraq is different from post-war Germany and Japan.
In Germany and Japan, the Allied presence was a provisional authority over generally homogeneous cultures who were able to resolve political differences in a few years’ time. In contrast, Iraq has been a cauldron of tribal conflicts since its formation as a nation state following WWI. A series of strongmen have averted civil war by subjugation. Now that Saddam is gone, we essentially have an open-ended conflict.
Thus, unlike Germany and Japan, the American presence in Iraq must necessarily mediate among the various religious and ethnic factions, many of whom are willing to employ violence to achieve their ends. That requires greater numbers of American soldiers, and it increases combat and casualties. Who can deny that our bravest are dying everyday in Iraq?
That the American presence in Baghdad will resemble Okinawa is a pipe dream. If we are there for 100 years, we are there for 100 years of conflict.

I don’t think I have ever heard Hillary state that her vote on Iraq was a mistake as John Edwards did. Until she does she has no credibility with me. With all her “experience” she should have known better at the time or at least, based on more recent, “experience” admit now it was a mistake.

Trey
I and and the world believe you are confused . you should have wrote Hillary. just thought i would point out your error.

HOW MANY times has Obama said something, later to take it back saying “oh, but that is not what I meant…”. the guy does not take responsibility for anything! Hillary has the integrity to say if she has made a mistake, Obama refuses to admit that he is less than perfect. He is a pathological liar, and it has been proven again and again and again. Those of you who bash Hillary seem to forget Obama’s lies in his Selma Alabama speech, or his lies about his father’s connection to the Kennedy’s. Fair is fair….Obama is “oops, he did it again”…..and what about the biggest lie of all…..sitting in a church for 20 years and not realizing the Pastor’s anti american views? What are you Obama supporters thinking, still believing this man???

OMG you have some nerve putting something bad in print about are Obama later today I am sure you will correct this and put in Hillarys name we do not want the children crying do we.
MCcain or Hillary in 08

If all Obama ever said about the Iraq war was that if he were in the Senate he would not have voted for it, then the arguments that are made to marginalize and minimize the importance of what he actually did would have some merit. Thats not what he did though.
In a time when it was politically unpopular to do so – the drumbeat for war was in full effect – the lies were being leaked to the NY Times and there was an overwhelming majority of support for the war among the American people – and when Obama himself was running for office – he made a very detailed, policy-heavy speech that very carefully and astutely laid out the argument against the war. Included in this argument was the argument that invading Iraq would lead to civil unrest among the warring sects that were so thinly held together by a series of brutal dictators, most recently Saddam. Also noted was that going into Iraq would increase terrorist operations in Afghanistan – the real target that we should be focusing on. Since the Iraq war by the way, Al Qaida is stronger both in Afghanistan and abroad than at any point even pre-9/11. Obama went on to discuss the long-term nature of the occupation, completely not buying the lie that the entire operation would take a total of “just days, weeks, i doubt months.” Also he spoke of the fact that we would have to be borrowing from China to fund the occupation, leading to a financial crisis and inflation problems domestically.
He didn’t just SAY that he would have voted against the war. He made a very frank, intellectually honest, and politically courageous stand against what he (correctly) saw as an American foreign policy disaster. While politicians who had already achieved their goals and ascended to the House and Senate lacked the political courage or personal fortitude to question what garbage was being shoved down their throats for fear of being anti-American or unpatriotic, a young ambitious future senator named Barack Hussein Obama had what those politicans lacked and spoke out. He did so intelligently and courageously.
Sure Hillary made a mistake by voting for the war – but so did a lot of people. Thats not going to keep me from voting for her if she’s the nominee. But to dismiss Obama’s opposition to the war as irrelevant because he was not yet elected to the Senate is ridiculous and counter to any sort of logic.

Mike in Tampa, Fl,
I think your post is thoughtful. Where I differ in your interpretation is this — a speech that a politician makes when they do not have accountability to a statewide electorate is not the same as the accountability they hold when they are representing the full constituency. Also, what emerges for me in Obama’s claims is when he is asked about his Iraq policy he always said “I was against the war from the start”. That’s a sound byte, not a policy. I really don’t have a clue on where Obama really stands on this matter. He has become a blank slate to many, where they paint the picture they want to see.

Senator Obama is a seasoned old fashioned politician from Illinois.

bottom line: obama is a racist and a liar

Like I did not watch the morning Joe episode. The fact was made clear McCain want to leave our troop there untill when they stop shooting at us for staying in their country. Maybe a 100 years. The truth is that our continued presence has foiled anti America sentiments.

I agree that Sen McCain’s comments are being taken out of context, but i would also like the record to stand the both democratic candidates are using this sound bite. In almost every debate and stump speech in which Sen Clinton discusses Iraq, she too discusses McCain’s quote. Is she above reproach in this?
As far as taking things out of context, even if McCain does not think we should be in a shooting war for 100 years, he certainly believes we should be in a shooting war until our vague benchmarks of victory are achieved. By suggesting we can have a 100 year occupancy or presence without invoking violence suggests a good amount of ignorance of the politics and culture of the area, and our own history of our involvement.

If one invades a country in an unauthorised war, and caused thousands of fatalities through an illegal occupation for years, it does not matter whether its senator or journalist decides to call it a ‘war’ or not. To the invaded, an illegal invasion and continued presence for 100 years IS WAR. McCain can call it what he likes. It does not change the facts. No ‘twisting truths’ here. Call a spade a spade please.

David,
And this is comming from a Hillary supporter?

The greater truth here is that the US cannot sustain a long-term occupation of Iraq as it has done in Japan. Sen. Obama recognizes that no “unconditional surrender” is, or can be forthcoming in this “War on Terror” because there are no geographical constraints to bind the warring factions. Therefore, occupation equals continued warfare — that means a rising casualty list. Simple as that.

When Obama was asked a hypothetical question during the MSNBC debate if he would reinvade Iraq if al qaeda went into Iraq after American troops left…he said “YES.”
Hillary’s answer….(the smart answer)…”TOO MANY IFs IN THAT QUESTION”
McCain charge: “Guess what? Al qaeda will reinvade, so let’s just end the original job instead of having to come back into Iraq.”

So according to Obama we are occupting Germany, Japan, France! and own the Phillipines because we have been there for over 100 years!
Barrack hussein Obama is a straight out liar!!

Mr Tapper,
This is where the 10000 years comment comes from , it wasn’t one the same tape
search “McCain: Americans Fine With Troops In Iraq For 10,000 Years”
but I agree that McCain doesn’t seriously think about being the for 10000 years

Maybe truth twisting is catching up to Sen. Obama.
New SurveyUSA poll out of PA – Clinton up by 18.

Obama is a , , with no sense of patriotism. He’s such a lying who’s secretly wanting to .
Seriously… can we stop all the name calling and labeling and resort to more educated discussions on differences between Hillary and Obama.
I swear, its only been in the past month or so that supporters, particularly Clinton supporters, have just give up trying to explain why their candidate is better and have resorted to being incredibly insulting and demeaning against everyone who doesn’t agree with them.
I understand your frustration, and I understand that its hard to debate policy differences when they have the exact same voting record in Senate with the exception of just 1 vote. But please, don’t resort to this 9 year old “my dad is stronger than your dad” stuff.

I rather have a President whom is proud of his country; than a President whom gives Great Speeches”.

STOP WORRYING!!!!
As soon as we stop using oil, we’ll be OUT of he whole Middle East!
And at the rate we’re using it, it’ll be a lot less than 100 years.
We’ll probably already have a viable alternative energy source in 50-60 years, though if you think that the war is expensive, wait until you find out how expensive conversion will be!!!
And wait until we start having serious energy rationing until then!!!!
Oh, den we all gon’ be cryin’ da blues!!!
I am rolling on the floor laughing, thinking about how all Americans think that the freedoms, rights, and the lifestyle we have shouldn’t cost much!!!!
The only one who can save America is: SURPRISE!!!!!!
EACH single one of us, taking individual responsibility for our actions, and,
conserving energy and resources just the way our grand- and great- grandparents did?
Only an idiot looks to politicians and government to solve anything.
When you hear someone say “Hi, I’m from the government, and I’m here to help,”
grab your wallet, your gun, and your family, and head for the hills.
BTW – yes I am a conservative Repub.

Obama Supporters,
Pay attention to what Henda says. Henda doesn’t deny that Obama is twisting the truth, instead Henda spins off of it, and says go for it Obama!
The rest of you Obama supporters that are pointing the finger at Hillary, pointing the finger at Jake, denying what Obama has done, take heed. You are just being cynical and negative. Henda is being proactive and positive. You should consider Henda for Vice President. Henda doesn’t attack the messenger, Henda consumes the messenger’s words, and regurgitates it back to the rest of the little penguins. Good job Henda.
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Pay attention to Henda for Henda knows!
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BTW, thanks Lou.

I am laughing so hard, because the media is doing all they can to say that the independents and the republicans will vote for Obama in the remaining primaries.
We all know that Obama may get some Independents, but Republicans, what a joke.
Like A Republican will lean all the way to the left(as far to the left that you could go with Obama), and not lean towards Hillary whom is more in the middle as the Republicans would vote.
More information from the Democratic controlled media, trying to persuade voters to vote for Obama in the remaining primaries.

I can’t believe how people will quibble over the smallest of things but leave the big issues untouched.
McCain may have seemed rational a few years ago but not now. Sorry, I know PTSD and Alzheimers when I see it. It would be disastrous to elect this man.
Further, who cares if he said leave the troops there for 100 years or continue the war 100 years. Both are asinine proposals. A simple gauge and a simple question to ask any of the candidates about continuing this debacle: If this war were being waged in a country without a huge oil reserve would we still be involved? Doesn’t anybody else see why we have let Afghanistan go basically unchecked? This isn’t rocket science, folks. Bush, Cheney, McCain, Clinton and probably Obama want the oil. They are just too cowardly to admit it. They want total control, end of story.
I agree. This editorial was worthless. MSM is so far up the ass of McCain, it would be laughable if not for the fact it is so frightening.

Phillip,
The problem with your analysis is this — Obama has already publicly stated, recorded in video clips, that he knows that McCain was not speaking about 100 years of active war, but a post-war presence. He can’t backtrack on his own analysis, or can he? Maybe he was a Newman fan during the Seinfeld years.
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Maybe Obama is like Newman!
Hello, Hillary! Goodbye Newman!
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Al,
The article today is about Obama getting busted with his distortions. Can we talk about that? You folks are busting Hillary’s chops non-stop. Could you at least hold on to the imaginary defects until there has been some due diligence around it?
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Obama did it, it must be Hillary’s fault!
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I think you are splitting hair and you are not talking about a real issue. I think you would have contributed to a real debate if you had focused on the essence of the matter, instead of writing about minor distortion on form. The essence, to me, is occupation of the country for 100 or more years would likely be a source of continued war, judging by how things have gone in Iraq. Given what the reason was to go to war and how things turned out to be, it is not responsible to suggest occupying the country up to 100 years. So if you really want talk about the real issue, ask people to debate this question: “Given the Iraq situation, what does it mean to you when a presidential candidate suggests that US military would be present in Iraq for up to 100 or more years as far as there are no casualties?”

Roger Miller,
Good point, and there you go with that math thing again. Obama supporters are quick to point out that Obama excels when looking at the campaign math threw the eyes of an Obama supporter. I did notice that the guy bowled a 37, which is not bad for a Harvard elite.
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Obama bowls a 37.
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That’s right. He bowls a “37″ because he wants to impress the hard working PA voters. A phony. Don’t try to be something you are not.
Being a Harvard elite is not a bad thing. My problem is with the elites who think like communists.
I said it first here that “Harvard is over rated any way. It seems Harvard folks are either not too smart or down right diabolocal based on the arguments they put forward”.

McCain is a war monger and will drag the country in to another war, this time with Iran. Foll me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me!

stella, how would you explain that Obama is more popular among his fellow senators than Clinton is?
He has a clear lead in endorsements from Dem Senators over Clinton.
Plus, you are clearly lying about ‘no record of working with the other side of the aisle’, or you’re simply writing about something you in reality know nothing about. One look at Obama’s work on the important Ethics Reform Bill (that passed) might learn you something.

What about the twisting of the truth from John McCain with regards his rescue in Vietnam and then the way he was treated in capture, but then it may have not sounded as good for the book!
Hillary and LIES the latest one with the story of the death of a 35 year old woman to push her Health Care Plans is nothing less than Disgusting!

What will Truth say to Obama when they meet?
Truth will say “Hello Stranger”

Ken – “might learn you something”??? Yeah, I reckon I might learn me somethin’ too. Like how to spot a snake oil salesman. No, I already learned me that. Obama

I personally do not see any distortion at all. McCain seems to be perfectly content to leave troops in Iraq “for as long as it takes”. Does that mean, 5 years, 100 years, or a thousand years? Iraq was and continues to be a mistake. Why continue the mistake “for as long as it takes”? At what cost? I admire McCain and believe he is good man but his stance on Iraq is what will lose the election for him. I cannot vote someone who wishes to continue the Iraq mistake indefinitely.

What will Obama do about Iraq war? He doesn’t know. He will appoint a task force and let them deliberate on C-Span till the next election. You see he wants to do things in the open like deliberating, cleaning his nose etc., so his supporters can applaud.

Unity, Change, and leadership we can be proud of. Vote for the smartest person in the race.
Vote Obama!

Obama continues to defend his false and misleading statement because the MSM does not push back on him when he is wrong or take him to task when he runs the kind of dirty campaign he says the others are running.
He is a slick Chicago style take no prisoners politician and if he gets the nomination, McCain and the republicans will turn him into ribbons.

Here is something that matters, folks, and that tells us everything IMO we need to know about John McCain:
HE CONFUSED SHIITES AND SUNNIS AGAIN during today’s Senate Armed Services hearing! Incredible but true.
So yes, he’s worse and more laughable than Bush ALREADY.
Plus, therefore, more dangerous to our national interests and security.

Ken:
I want to be clear about what Obama did! as you probably know from my previous post, I am Pro-life.
Once in 2003, and twice before that, he effectively voted for infantcide. He voted to allow doctors to deny medically appropriate treatment or, worse yet, actively kill a completely living baby. Infanticide-I wonder if he’ll add this to the list of changes in his next victory speech and if the crowd will roar: “Yes We Can”!
Even Ted Kennedy, Barbara Boxer, Hillary Clilnton, etc. did not oppose the BAIPA bill to save late-term babies born alive to be killed. Only, Obama was opposed to it.
John McCain’s campaign and conservative pundits have listed the numerous times in Obama’s short Senate career where he sided with the extremes in his party against broadly supported compromises on issues as:
Immigration
Ethics Reform
Terrorist Surveillance
War Funding
Fighting on the fringe with a handful of liberals is one thing, but consider his position on an issue that passed both houses of Congress unanimously in 2002….the BAIPA Bill (Born Alive Infant Protection Act)
Just remeber Obama’s own words:
I don’t want my daughters to be punished with a BABY!!!!!

Mike in Tampa, FL and all other think you know Obama’s Irq stance.
There is recent NPR talk about how Obama used the 2002 speech to support his anti-war position. In fact, per NPR, that speech was not made when he was running office, so there was no such so-called “high-stake” involved. Also, the speech was not even reported by any reporter covering the event that day. There is not even a recording of that speech left. The obama people went to the extent to re-make the speech and even adding the background applauding sound effects. (Please check NPR to verify)
NYT also recently reported on Obama’s Iraq stance. He voted everything exactly as Clinton did, against troop withdraw and continue funded the war. He DID NOT openly do anything against the war after he started running for president.
The biggest problem I have with him is he only has his words but no actions at all to suppor his words. And when his actions are getting examined, you get to see complete hypocricy. Actions don’t match up with his words. There is a long list of irony in Obama:
1. He claims he is a clean different politics, but his own evolution, associated with Rezko, Emil Jones, and other shady people is completely the opposite
2. He claims he can unite people, but his willingness to in a black racist church, his only contribution from his tax returns to the black-related cause, and his unwillingness even now to confront Wright’s stance says other things.
3. He claims he cares about people. Why 11 Rezko’s badly constructed low-income projects happened to be his own chicago district? How could he claim he did not know how terrible the living conditions were for those people living there? Just do a little bit online search you will see a lot of things he did in Chicago is not so goo.
The list can go on. My suggestion to all Obama supporters is “don’t confuse words with actions”!

wake up!
she can not manage her campaign.
She never managed Anything.
It is Baby talking to make president from Hillary.
Let’s become adults and think.

If he says something that is not true or a half-true it should not be overlooked. He should be scrutinized the same as Clinton and Mccain. I can’t believe the double standard, the media should be ashamed of the way they have covered this presidential season.

“This country would be better off with a stupid old patriotic pre-alzheimer’s warmongering white man than an intelligent young “blame america for everything” race-baiting socialist who believes the only way to make this country great is by the government confiscating every dollar we earn.”
- Government is already wasting our tax dollars, so nice try. Amazes me the breadth of ignorance among American voters.-

McCain actually did support a prolonged war. He has said recently he only meant an established base, but during primaries he was very clear that a 100 (“or even 1000″) year war was fine.

“This country would be better off with a stupid old patriotic pre-alzheimer’s warmongering white man than an intelligent young “blame america for everything” race-baiting socialist who believes the only way to make this country great is by the government confiscating every dollar we earn.” – Obama\Osama ’08
– LOL how incredibly clever, witty and insightful.

Bubba:
I agree with you. Stella’s posts are some of the best posts I have yet to read on this site.
They sure open up your eyes to Obama.

McBush … just another 4 years of war / lies / kissing up to big business, and special interest groups. “Your doing a heck of a job Brownie” and let’s not forget “Mission Accomplished”

Obama has a lot of experience twisting the truth about twisting the truth. Not to change the subject, but it was the same thing he did on the Rezko issue. For 16 months he lied about it in various forms, then had to twist some more when he finally met with the Tribune board.

re: Sitting1
When I get my next bill for the war, I will send it to you!!!

PP, I think she is locked up until Nov.

Senator Obama’s arrogance about foreign policy is only matched by his cluelessness.

Of course Obama twisted McCain words. Obama is a politician. No big surprise to anyone but his hard-core supporters who cannot fathom that their Savior would ever say anything but the whole truth.
The more things “change”, the more they stay the same.

Gee…do you think Obama will twist the truth when he is in the White House? I wonder who can twist it the best…George or Barack?

If the shoe was reversed … oh wait, McCain hasn’t distorted anything Obama has said for political advantage …
McCain may not be as conservative as some would like and he may be willing to finish the fight in Iraq that others claim is a lost cause but does anyone think he would lie to win ?
Apparently Obama will do anything to win and lying about your opponent or allowign your suppoters to smear him is fine with him …
This is a big con job …
Obama claims to be a moderate, but…
Would a Moderate man go to that church ?
Would a moderate man marry someone who is obviously not moderate ?
Would a Moderate man NEVER cast a moderate vote in his entire political career ?
No to all 3 … so why does Obama claim to be what he clearly is not ? Because it won’t win this election, so he lies to everyone, everyday …

Why should anyone thank you?
Mccain has gotten a pass from the press. He wants to stay in Iraq indefinitely with an ambiguous open ended goal. 100 years if there are no US causalities? What does that even mean? So if there are US causalities after 5,10, 15 years then what? US soldiers causalities seems to be irrelevant to the conversation. He wants a continued presence in Iraq so that he can have leverage over Iran. One can obviously interpret this from his continued hawkish stance on the middle east. So Obama is correct. Mccain wants to stay in Iraq indefinitely and instead of just openly admitting it, you play this word parsing game, of Mccain’s double speak that isn’t specific enough to be critical of Obama.
The problem is a continued acceptance of vague rhetoric that has been occurring for 8 years. At what point do you make them accountable. All the predictions of how this war would turn out have been wrong. It is up to you (THE PRESS) to grill Mccain on what he means, not attack Obama who simply looks at Mccain’s history and comes to a logical conclusion as to his intent.

Obama is a Pied Piper. He is going after the high schools, (our children) with his melodic speeches and promises. Where do you suppose he is leading them, and what will it take for us to get them back? His mezmerizing tone and slow, deliberate speech pattern makes it possible for him to get away with lying openly, saying he didn’t, and the fools who follow him just believe.

McCain wants to stay in Iraq until American soldiers are no longer being killed. That could very well take 100 years… “perhaps 100 years of war,” as Obama put it.
And then, once peace is finally achieved in Iraq, we’ll say for 100 years more.
Nice.
It’s really hard to criticize anyone for jumping all over McCain’s insane Iraq policy.