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- hawkeye17, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Agree. WHERE does St. McCain think he is going to find more troops to send?? They had to extend tours of duty just to meet the 21,500 surge numbers. McCain KNOWS we don't have the troops. He wants to position himself as the guy who was for winning in Iraq when the inevitable failure happens over there. His plan is impossible unless he wants to start up the Draft again. McCain is just playing politics right now and he doesn't really have any stance on the war other than what he thinks will win him votes. Pretty pathetic.
- michaelbeckham, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I miss the McCain that went on The Daily Show, the one that was not a partisan hack.
- dave1021, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4John McCain - the patron saint of liars.
- jbus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1McCain has apparently decided to sell his soul and is now pandering to the far right in this country... He's supporting an escalation of a war that should have never been started to begin with, and he's cozying up to the religious right and their wacko leaders to get votes. With every day that passes, it's looking like he could actually be WORSE for this country than Bush has been, if that is possible. He's someone that wouldn't need his Vice President and his daddies friends to fill his mind with terrible ideas... Instead he already has those terrible ideas.
- jivatmanx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Actually Mccain is correct in a way. Extrapolations of previously effective occupations means that the establishment of democracy in iraq would require about 500,000 troops and 15 years.
Which I knew a long time ago, and is why I've said all along, either come up with a coherent war strategy, tell the public the truth about it, and institute a draft, or don't do it at all. Doing something half-assed has ***** over the national security of the world, as progressive leaders in muslm countries get replaced my more and more fundamentalist ones.
The most unfortunately example of this is Iran. For the Muslim world, they used to have a very liberal leader, which is what happened when you have a president that respects and talks to foriegn leaders (Clinton was known to spend many hours talking to foriegn leaders in private). As opposed to a president like Bush, who for the most part does'nt talk to other leaders at all, and just spouts off insults and counterproductive "Axis of Evil" *****. No country is evil, you simply have countries that feel threatened and want a strong military, or countries that are prosperous and peaceful and don't feel like they have a need. Clearly, many have gone from the later to the former. - CraigB12, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1In some sense i think he's right, although i know a larger amount of troops is impossible. We've been half assing this war for 5 years, and sending a few more troops now isn't going to do a damn thing. We need to either give full control to the Iraqi's and get the ***** out, or just send a rediculous amount of troops there to clean up and get out within a year. Neither of these things will happen, so I guess we'll have to sit back and watch the bomb explode.
- sprungbt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Worth a Re-Read - audio link at site:
GOP Debate - February 16, 2000
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/jan-june00/sc_debate_2-16.html
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