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McCain: 'I Dont Think Americans Are Concerned' If We Stay In Iraq For '10,000 Years' »

Posted by: GrainOfSand 8 months ago

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Last week, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said it "would be fine with" him if the U.S. military stayed in Iraq for "a hundred years" or even a "million years."

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GrainOfSand8 months ago

"Fifty-nine percent say the U.S. should "stick to a withdrawal timetable" instead of keeping "a significant number of troops in Iraq until the situation there gets better, even if that takes many years.""
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jordan118 months ago

McCain is an idiot. He knows nothing about the American people, and what they want. But there seems to be a whole lot of politicians in that boat, on all sides.
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  dissent8 months ago
  
  He's still saying Saddam was a threat only because the Iraqis took potshots at us with peashooters while we flew in their airspace bombing the crap out of anything we called suspicious in what we took on ourselves to call "no-fly zones." Maybe the Iraqis back then thought we were the threat. Looks like they were right.
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dexlovex28 months ago

"Which Americans he is talking about?"
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PsychoHosebeast8 months ago

The headline should read "McCain Shoots Himself In the Ass."
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Lurch8 months ago

McCain should have been prez in 2001. Should of, would of, could of.
I seriously doubt that if McCain or Gore were president in 2001 that 9/11 would have occurred. Just no way either man would have ignored all the myriad warnings that Bush, Rice, and others ignored.
If 9/11 had been prevented, which could have readily happened had the white house not been asleep at the wheel, we would not be in the current Bush quagmire.
However, we are in it and McCain is out of it. The reason for the violence is the US troops and now the puppet govt which cannot even protect its own people from hired mercs. And McCain wants to continue this? All I can say is, McCain definitely inhaled.
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nikkibabe8 months ago

Yes, in 5 years China will own the US with its trillions of dollars it will be loaning to continue the spectacle in Iraq.
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  AOL-my-crater8 months ago
  
  nikki is right! Only we need to say to Sen.McCain about America's vital need to stay for next billion years in CHINA!.. That Iraq now may goes hell... Wow! We need to stay here too... anywhere else?..
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walden38 months ago

The guy is too out there to be president.
"You know that old Beach Boys song, Bomb Iran?" the Republican presidential candidate said. Then, he sang. "Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran."
http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/blogs/politicaltick...
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simonsez8 months ago

You're distorting what he said.
"If the troops are out of harm's way, what's the difference between keeping troops in Bosnia, North Korea, Germany, etc. and troops in Iraq".
The real question is do we need troops all over the world. I don't think so
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AOL-my-crater8 months ago

USS Maddox in my mind. No mind.
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jetsfan198 months ago

mccain is just like every other pos politician in the country, he will say what ever he thinks will get him the most attention at the time and then think that we will forget about it
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IanFraigun8 months ago

After having experienced being a prisoner in a horrid war you would think he would be against such activities.
When will McCain and others learn that if we are not invaded by a country we should stay out of that country militarily. Had we instead of Iraq kept our troops in afghanistan and if needed cross into Pakistan to find and capture/kill Bin Laden that would have sent a message that would have chilled the terrorists.
Instead we went into Iraq and created a situation that creates new terrorists faster than we can capture/kill them. With that a known fact McCain wants to stay there forever till things get better, and it will take forever. Such a lack of comprehension of what the world is actually like.
Unfortunately I and many others like me who would have gladly voted for him in 2000 no see totally differently and his time has surely past.
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Wolfie20078 months ago

Here's a clue for all of you. No matter, who is elected or from which party, the USA will have permanent military bases in Iraq for a very long time.
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Charlson8 months ago

A lunatic who speaks for the lunatic fringe called the raging right. That describes both McCain and Wolfie.
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panzerv8 months ago

I agree wolfie, there is no plan to remove the U.S. military presence from the middle east. Halliburton has built numerous hardened bases there. We are never leaving. Just the same, this guy is barking at the moon! I wish the military would just walk out. Come home and capture the real terrorists hiding in the white house.
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Lurch8 months ago

McCain does have some interesting stances, gotta admit that.
Dems like him because he is rightfully against illegal torture and kidnapping per the Geneva Convention, which we have signed.
Reps like him because he lends a small bit of legitimacy to Bush`s war in Iraq.
No matter though, this was a dumb thing to say. It seems he is losing touch, doesn`t understand American values/ideals, or just doesn`t want to hold elected office anymore.
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GrainOfSand8 months ago

Once John McCain cozied up to Jerry Falwell a while back at Falwell's Liberty University (where students really have no liberties), that pretty much ditched him to me.
As a former war prisoner, I can't imagine he'd want to occupy a country that didn't attack us in the first place.
Can you say PANDERER? And he wants to stay in Iraq for 100 years? 10000 years? What kind of nut is this guy. And he won New Hampshire yesterday? Unbelievable sheep must live up there.
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