McCain Claims Americans Won't Mind If We Stay in Iraq for '10,000 Years'

[marmar]

Dementia? Or is he just an asshole?


from AlterNet's PEEK:



McCain Claims Americans Won't Mind If We Stay in Iraq for '10,000 Years'

Posted by Faiz Shakir, Think Progress at 6:19 AM on January 7, 2008.

But by McCain's logic, 10,000 or even one million years is not "forever."




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."

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."

But on CBS's Face the Nation, McCain claimed that Americans would not be "concerned" if the U.S. spends "10,000 years" in Iraq:

The point is it's American casualties. We've go to get American's off the frontlines, have the Iraqis as part of the strategy, take over more and more of the responsibilities, and then I don't think Americans are concerned if we're there for one hundred years or a thousand years or ten thousand years.

As Crooks and Liars notes, on NBC's Meet the Press, McCain further expressed his desire for a permanent Iraq occupation, going as far as to suggest that he supports "permanent bases" in the country:

RUSSERT: Would you have permanent bases?

McCAIN: If that seems to be necessary in some respects. It depends on the threat.

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The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/72913/

[bdamomma]

1. delusional.

[rodeodance]

2. He is not so far off--when it comes to OIL--I have meet many who agree we

should stay to get our share. simple as that.

[SammyWinstonJack]

11. Since when is Iraqi oil "ours"? Why do WE deserve a "share"?

:shrug:

[EstimatedProphet]

3. Did anyone ask the Iraqis if they would mind?

[Thothmes]

5. Why not

We have had troops in Germany and Japan for 62 years and not many people have bitched about it yet.

[BulletproofLandshark]

8. There's a slight difference

There isn't an ongoing bloodbath in Berlin or Okinawa, at least not to my knowledge.

[Thothmes]

14. Then why the need for U.S. Troops in these locations?

[BulletproofLandshark]

16. I never said they were needed

But they shouldn't be in Iraq either. Maybe it's just me, but I think enough of our soldiers have died over there.

[Thothmes]

17. I am not disagreeing with you point.

But it appears to me that once American army boots set foot on another country's soil, they have a very strong tendency to stay there. This fact does not seem to overly bother the general electorate of this country.

[Wednesdays]

23. Oops...delete

Posted in the wrong place.

[EstimatedProphet]

19. the Germans and Japanese haven't all been happy about it.

[panader0]

4. That comment will come back to bite him if he becomes the nom.

[PATRICK]

6. The Million Year Reich

Even the Nazis were not THAT conceptually stupid. One million means always in effect and regarding America that is conceptually more stupid. We don't even want to be in Guam for a hundred years. it'll be under water.

[havocmom]

7. those who rub elbows with the real powers in the world know

they only think of themselves as 'Americans' or even people for that matter. The rest of us? Who cares what we think. We are not in their equations.

When anyone in the malAdministration says they have to do warrantless spying to protect the security of Americans, they mean protect themselves from US.

We the People are not considered people, citizens, Americans to the real rulers. When they say 'Americans' or 'people', they don't mean us. McCain seems to have figured that out.

[Solly Mack]

9. When you hang a pine scented freshener on a pile a shit

and then call it a Christmas tree, you're going to need a lot of fresheners

McCain supports a very big lie

When you take the position to support such a lie, you are forced to come up with rationalizations to not only sustain the lie, but to justify your support of the lie.

[spanone]

10. he's claiming the 'surge' was his idea...fool

[bryant69]

12. In all fairness if we are going to stay there for 10,000 years

We may as well make it a state.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[kentuck]

13. How insanely arrogant !

As if the Americans are the only ones that have a say in it?

[Blarch]

15. Those words are gonna hurt.

[librechik]

18. why not? it's only costing the average family what, $20,000 a year?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21766479/

make that $20900.

hey, we could afford health insurance for that!

[AngryOldDem]

20. I just love the way politicians speak for me.

:sarcasm:

[Naturyl]

21. Yes, good idea. Let's stay for a million years.

What are these people smoking? Is it grown on their home planet, along with the body snatcher pods?

[LynnTheDem]

22. And of course fuck what 87% of the Iraqi people want.

Which happens to be us out of their country. IMMEDIATELY.

After all, we know what's best for them. :eyes:

[MiniMe]

24. He did add on "as long as no US Troops are being killed"

At least he did on the Faux debate. As long as there are US troops in Iraq, US troops will suffer casualties.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

25. Just like the Americans didn't mind having Brit troops stationed here.

Except for that little dust-up called the Revolution.

[Javaman]

26. well mclame is really a tool of the corps and we all know that.

If we stay in iraq for even another 5 years, we are, as a nation, economically finished.