McCain, Cheney: US in Iraq Long-Term

[Purveyor]

BAGHDAD (AP) — Vice President Dick Cheney and Sen. John McCain vowed in meetings with Iraq's prime minister Monday that the U.S. would maintain a long-term military presence in Iraq until al-Qaida is defeated there.

Explosions went off near the heavily fortified Green Zone shortly after Cheney arrived. Helicopter gunships circled central Baghdad, but no details were immediately available on the cause of the explosions.

The presumptive Republican candidate for president, who has linked his political future to military success in Iraq, met with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki shortly before the Iraqi leader began separate talks with Cheney.

Al-Maliki said he and the vice president discussed ongoing negotiations over a long-term security agreement between the two countries that would replace the U.N. mandate for foreign troops set to expire at the end of the year.

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McCain stressed that it was important to maintain the U.S. commitment in Iraq, where a U.S.-Iraq military operation is under way to clear al-Qaida from its last urban stronghold of Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad.

"We recognize that al-Qaida is on the run, but they are not defeated," McCain said after meeting al-Maliki. "Al-Qaida continues to pose a great threat to the security and very existence of Iraq as a democracy. So we know there's still a lot more of work to be done."

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[bdamomma]

1. Alot more people to be killed, that is what McCain should of said.

[HughBeaumont]

2. Presuming the criminal Cons don't get run out on a rail before such an eventuality . .

Could McClown and KneeChain know something about the upcoming "election" that we don't?

What say you, Dumbericans? Gonna continue to vote against your interests as you have for 20 non-consecutive years with Reagan and the Family Bewsh? Gonna continue to fuck the country just because you don't feel "safe" unless a pasty neo-fascist "daddy" runs things?

[noise]

3. These guys support soldiers serving in Iraq?

I don't think so. Only someone not paying any attention would vote for McCain. The notion that 'mistakes were made' is a sickening talking point. If they were truly mistakes, they were UNFORGIVABLE. If one reads Juhasz's book The Bush Agenda or watches No End in Sight the so called mistakes seem more like intentional policy decisions disguised as mistakes.

[Johonny]

4. We recognize that al-Qaida is on the run

This is the same line they used in the last election. They've been running for 4 years. Isn't 4 years enough time for them to run across Asia, yet alone out of the boarders of Iraq?