John McCain's 100 Years In Iraq
Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and other Democrats have been critical of presumptive GOP nominee John McCain for suggesting that America could be in Iraq for 100 years.
"We can't afford to stay in Iraq, like John McCain said, for another 100 years," Obama said in Lancaster, PA., echoing other comments he has made on the trail.
"We cannot take four more years of more of the same and if you listen to Sen. McCain, he wants to keep troops in Iraq, he has said, for up to 100 years," Clinton said in February. She made similar remarks last month.
Democratic National Committee chair Howard Dean has called McCain "a blatant opportunist who...is promising to keep our troops in Iraq for 100 years."
The charge results from comments McCain made at a town hall meeting in New Hampshire in January. After a questioner told McCain that President Bush has talked about staying in Iraq for 50 years, McCain said, "make it a hundred."
He continued: "We've been in Japan for 60 years. We've been in South Korea for 50 years or so. That would be fine with me, as long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed."
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McCain appears to be talking about maintaining a presence in Iraq, not continuing the type of war America is now fighting. He suggests it would be acceptable to "maintain a presence in a very volatile part of the world" similar to that in Japan and Korea.
The nonpartisan Annenberg Political Fact Check calls the DNC's suggestion, based on these comments, that McCain has called for an "endless war" in Iraq a "rank falsehood."
The McCain campaign, meanwhile, argues that Obama "has been knowingly twisting McCain's words," and McCain himself suggested that Obama's characterization of his comments exposes "a fundamental misunderstanding of history" on Obama's part, because he "has no experience or background on these issues."
But the Democratic frontrunner says his characterization is "entirely fair."
Pressed on the issue at a press conference, Obama, who advocates having troops looking after the American embassy and civilian populations in Iraq, as well as maintaining "a strike force in the region," either in or out of Iraq, after the war, said his position was "very different from saying we're going to have a permanent occupation in Iraq."
Obama continued:
"And it's certainly different from saying that we would have a high level of combat troops inside Iraq for a decade or two decades, or, as John McCain said, perhaps a hundred years. I'm just quoting back what he said. Unless you tell me that that's a misquote."
© 2008 CBS Interactive Inc.. All Rights Reserved. "We can't afford to stay in Iraq, like John McCain said, for another 100 years," Obama said in Lancaster, PA., echoing other comments he has made on the trail.
"We cannot take four more years of more of the same and if you listen to Sen. McCain, he wants to keep troops in Iraq, he has said, for up to 100 years," Clinton said in February. She made similar remarks last month.
Democratic National Committee chair Howard Dean has called McCain "a blatant opportunist who...is promising to keep our troops in Iraq for 100 years."
The charge results from comments McCain made at a town hall meeting in New Hampshire in January. After a questioner told McCain that President Bush has talked about staying in Iraq for 50 years, McCain said, "make it a hundred."
He continued: "We've been in Japan for 60 years. We've been in South Korea for 50 years or so. That would be fine with me, as long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed."
Here's the video:
McCain appears to be talking about maintaining a presence in Iraq, not continuing the type of war America is now fighting. He suggests it would be acceptable to "maintain a presence in a very volatile part of the world" similar to that in Japan and Korea.
The nonpartisan Annenberg Political Fact Check calls the DNC's suggestion, based on these comments, that McCain has called for an "endless war" in Iraq a "rank falsehood."
The McCain campaign, meanwhile, argues that Obama "has been knowingly twisting McCain's words," and McCain himself suggested that Obama's characterization of his comments exposes "a fundamental misunderstanding of history" on Obama's part, because he "has no experience or background on these issues."
But the Democratic frontrunner says his characterization is "entirely fair."
Pressed on the issue at a press conference, Obama, who advocates having troops looking after the American embassy and civilian populations in Iraq, as well as maintaining "a strike force in the region," either in or out of Iraq, after the war, said his position was "very different from saying we're going to have a permanent occupation in Iraq."
Obama continued:
"And it's certainly different from saying that we would have a high level of combat troops inside Iraq for a decade or two decades, or, as John McCain said, perhaps a hundred years. I'm just quoting back what he said. Unless you tell me that that's a misquote."
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Japan & Korea had single part leadership. They were not factionalized the way that Iraq is.
Iraq is more like Somalia and Lebanon and McCain''s Vietnam experience has him grounded in a type of warfare and diplomacy that''s not relevant to the situation we''re in.
Anybody who has viewed the town hall meeting knows exactly what McCain said. It''s disgusting & pathetic that Obama thinks we Americans are so stupid as to fall for such deception. But then again polls show Americans have fallen for his Wright/absent-from-church-that-day deception. Still a lot of folks are beginning to smell a rat. Now a Boston "historian" appears out of thin air to proxy for Obama and nuance the deception even further. It''s just another slick but deperate attempt by the old Chicago political machine headed by David Axelrod to float Obama: Deceiver-in-Chief.
(prove anything on this list is false and ill email to your paypal)
CAN ANYONE AD ANYTHING, AM I MISSING ANYTHING ABOUT OBAMA AND HIS ASSOCIATION TO UNSAVORY CHARACTERS. MUCH APPRECIATED. MAKING A LIST AND CHECKING IT TWICE.
How can anyone even think of voting for Obama.
- Went with farakahn to the million man march
- 20 years of church, he stated he rarely missed a sun.
- Related to Muslim Cousin who wants sharia law
- Ties to Ayers who is a known terrorist
- His Wife is finally proud of america
- His wife wrote an essay on black seperatists in
Princeton
- His pastor gave farakahn an award
- His pastor is pro-hamas
- Obama Cousin campaigning for change in kenya.
- Obama lied about his liberal past
- Obama lied about his pastor
- Obama PA campaign Ad about Oil was a Fraud
- Obama Said Babys are a Pain(not exact quote)
- Relationship with Rezco
- Michelle Obama Finances with Hospital
Now I think I have a complete list....if anything is not true, I will take it off the list.
CAN ANYONE AD ANYTHING, AM I MISSING ANYTHING ABOUT OBAMA AND HIS ASSOCIATION TO UNSAVORY CHARACTERS. MUCH APPRECIATED. MAKING A LIST AND CHECKING IT TWICE.
How can anyone even think of voting for Obama.
- Went with farakahn to the million man march
- 20 years of church, he stated he rarely missed a sun.
- Related to Muslim Cousin who wants sharia law
- Ties to Ayers who is a known terrorist
- His Wife is finally proud of america
- His wife wrote an essay on black seperatists in
Princeton
- His pastor gave farakahn an award
- His pastor is pro-hamas
- Obama Cousin campaigning for change in kenya.
- Obama lied about his liberal past
- Obama lied about his pastor
- Obama PA campaign Ad about Oil was a Fraud
- Obama Said Babys are a Pain(not exact quote)
- Relationship with Rezco
- Michelle Obama Finances with Hospital
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Posted by Cbscrash07 at 06:41 PM : Apr 01, 2008
Right on!