McCain Sees ‘No Plan B’ for Iraq War

[babylonsister]

Basically, he'd end the war if elected due to public opinion, but not before...:eyes:


http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/15/us/politics/15mccain.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

McCain Sees ‘No Plan B’ for Iraq War


By MICHAEL R. GORDON and ADAM NAGOURNEY
Published: April 15, 2007

WASHINGTON, April 13 — Senator John McCain said that the buildup of American forces in Iraq represented the only viable option to avoid failure in Iraq and that he had yet to identify an effective fallback if the current strategy failed.

“I have no Plan B,” Mr. McCain said in an interview. “If I saw that doomsday scenario evolving, then I would try to come up with one. But I cannot give you a good alternative because if I had a good alternative, maybe we could consider it now.”

In a discussion of how he would handle Iraq if elected president, Mr. McCain argued that the success of the Bush administration’s strategy, which seeks to protect Baghdad residents so Iraqi political leaders have an opportunity to pursue a program of political reconciliation, was essentially a precondition for a more limited American role that could follow.

“I am not guaranteeing that this succeeds,” said Mr. McCain, who has long argued that additional troops were needed. “I am just saying that I think it can. I believe it has a good shot.”

Mr. McCain methodically dismissed as unrealistic every other plan that had been proposed by Democrats as a substitute for President Bush’s strategy, including those from Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware and Barack Obama of Illinois.

He said that if the Bush administration’s plan had not produced visible signs of progress by the time a McCain presidency began, he might be forced — if only by the will of public opinion — to end American involvement in Iraq.

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[Raven]

1. He would wait until January 2009?????

That's it, he's nuts. He has lost his mind.

[Sherman A1]

2. There was a plan "A"?

There was a Plan of any sort? John, John, John.... we are wandering from the talking points again.......

[sutz12]

4. Sure there was, but it only had one step...

1. Depose Saddam.
2. Uh.......what now?

[Bucky]

3. Ah, the return of Mr Straight Talk: "I have no Plan B."

Oh, hell, just leave the "B" off. He has no plan. The surge was somebody else's plan. He has nothing else to offer except more money, more dead people, and the prayer that it might just "all work out" because his heart is pure and his talk is straight.

That's not leadership, Mr McCain. That's followership.

[Disturbed]

5. McLame should have a plan..

He should plan upon dropping out of his bid for the Pres. slot and retire from the Senate. Now that is a realistic plan.

[TwilightGardener]

6. Plan A: Continue to Wage Futile War, until forced into Plan B: End War

Sounds like plan, John.

[BenDavid]

7. I am so confused about why McCain

is thought of has A hero. When I was growing up, the meaning of HERO was someone gave his life for his buddies. But what did John McCain do? He did not risk his life in the pow camp. He saved his life. A hero? I do not believe so. I am no accusing Mr McCain of not having a survival instinct, but what we saw and see what McCain did is called, pure and simple: SELF PRESERVATION.

[TwilightGardener]

9. Ok, here's where I defend the poor dude--he is a genuine hero, not

just for his service or his honorably enduring 5 years in a POW camp, but because he refused early release so that his fellow POW's could go home sooner. His father was an admiral and the North Vietnamese wanted to use his early release as "special treatment" propaganda to demoralize the other prisoners.

[Connie_Corleone]

8. These idiots never have a Plan B.

[krispos42]

10. This is our Plan B:

The hasty evacuation of British troops at Dunkirk





The hasty evacuation of US troops from Saigon





Care to guess what the next set of pictures might look like? I'm thinking an Osprey in the Green Zone.