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McCain’s Escalation Numbers Game

By Nico Pitney on Jan 8th, 2007 at 2:05 pm

McCain’s Escalation Numbers Game

Ed. note — correction appended below the fold:

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) is the most prominent advocate of escalating the war in Iraq. Yet, as some have noted, his “straight talk” on the issue has been extremely muddled.

Below, a timeline of McCain’s multiple positions on escalation:

October 27, 2006 — McCain Calls For 20,000 More Troops in Iraq:

Reporters asked him to elaborate on his statement last week in Iowa that more combat troops are needed in Iraq to quell a “classic insurgency.”

Another 20,000 troops in Iraq, but that means expanding the Army and the Marine Corps,” he said. [Link]

January 4, 2007 — McCain Calls For 30,000 More Troops In Iraq:

MCCAIN: I would advocate two additional combat brigades in Anbar province, four in Baghdad, with one in reserve. That’s around 30,000. [NBC, 1/4/07]

January 4, 2007 — McCain Suggests 20,000 Troop Escalation Is Too ‘Small’:

LAUER: The president seems to be settling on the 20,000 number. Is this a numbers game? Will 20,000 do the job, in your opinion?

SEN. MCCAIN: I’m not sure. … I have not seen the exact plan, so it’s hard for me to know. But to make it of a short duration and a small size would be the worst of all options to exercise, in my view. [NBC, 1/4/07]

January 5, 2007 — McCain Says He Is ‘Not Specific on Numbers’ About Troops in Iraq:

QUESTION: How many troops are you calling for in Iraq?

MCCAIN: We are not specific on numbers, we don’t have — we are talking about 3 or 4 combat brigades, in Baghdad, and one or two more in Anbar province. We are not that much detailed oriented. [AEI "Future of Iraq" Conference, 1/5/07]

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Correction:

A previous version of this post included a section claiming that McCain had called for 100,000 more troops in Iraq, citing this Chicago Tribune article. Subsequently, we learned that the Tribune had inaccurately truncated McCain’s remarks. McCain actually said he believed that 100,000 soldiers should be added to the overall U.S. military, not to the U.S. force in Iraq. CNN has published a more accurate account of McCain’s remarks.



67 Responses to “McCain’s Escalation Numbers Game”

  1. TripMaster Monkey says:

    Damnit, McCain! If you can’t be clear on how many more troops you want to send, my coining of the term ‘McCain’ as a measurement of a number of troops (comparable to the ‘Friedman’ as a measurement of time) will come to naught!

    Damnit, McCain, you are ruining this for me.


  2. dlet says:

    Just ask Tony Snow. It’s just a number.


  3. big papa says:

    This is easy enough to ’splain’…

    …Savings-and-loan Johnny gets the troop figures mixed up with…

    …per plate fees…’er “donations”…

    …at his Repulsivescam fundraisers…


  4. james york says:

    What the democrats should be doing is stopping Bush from widening the war

    If truth be known, there is nothing to stop the Israeli/neoconservative cabal from widening the war in the Middle East.

    As I previously reported, the neoconservatives believe that the use of nuclear weapons against Iran would force Muslims to realize that they have no recourse but to submit to the Israeli/US will. The use of nuclear weapons is being rationalized as necessary to destroy Iran’s underground facilities, but the real purpose is to terrorize Islam and to bring it to heel.

    Until the US finds the courage to acquire a Middle East policy of its own, Americans will continue to reap the evil sowed by the Israel Lobby.


  5. Raven says:

    I have noticed that the number of troops batted around by all proponents of a “surge” is never the same from one day to the next.
    Everyone, however, tends to ignore the fact that there are no more than 9,000 to 10,000 available……..


  6. Happy Guy says:

    Hey, the Democrats owe everything to thier Al Qaeda buddies

    http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/12/al_qaeda_sends_.html

    ROTFL


  7. Mickey Mouse says:

    The US media is totally unreliable. It cannot go against Israel, and it will wrap itself in the flag just as it did for the invasion of Iraq. The American public has been deceived (again) and believes that Iran is on the verge of possessing nuclear armaments to be used to wipe Israel off the map. The fact that Americans are such saps for propaganda makes effective opposition to the neoconservatives’ plan for WWIV practically impossible.


  8. hellinabucket says:

    5. and that’s short term. This will be the 6th plan about how to secure Baghdad. The previous 5 have failed. There will be a call for additional troops in May and in August and so on and so on.

    Congress will pass a bill asking for an increase in the total military in the near future. How will that increase be tied into the long term operation in Iraq should be addressed. Not that it will but it should.

    This administration has placed too much of the burden on the National Guard and Reserves (I’d like to see the legal arguments on this issue). Stop loss orders have pushed these weekend warriors past the brink. They have honorably served and have another tour of duty for gratitude.


  9. RUCerious says:

    They still haven’t figured out the easy way to end the war.
    Just fly over Baghdad and airdrop hundreds of thousands of 1040 tax forms.
    The Iraqis will be so confused filling them out and waiting on hold for help from the IRS, they’ll have no time for sectarian torture and killing.


  10. Hardy Haberman says:

    McCain is pathetic. He apparently has blown his backroom deal with the administration to take the VP chair when Cheney steps down and now he’s flailing around. He will say anything and do anything to further his political career. It’s sad to watch a guy who so many thought had principals abandon every shred of candor and ethics.


  11. Krazny says:

    Some of the soldiers are on their second and third year long tours at this point. The military by everyones standards is over-extended. The next option may well be a draft, but look for that to happen say nearer 2008 or 2009, so the republicans can blame a Dem president.


  12. Mickey Mouse says:

    90% of Iraqis dont want American military in Iraq , theres only 2 people in the world want you there and thats Bush and his Puppet Maliki

    Whats so hard for the democrats to understand about this


  13. dlet says:

    Haven’t there really been additional troops in Iraq with all the stop loss and extentions of service and 3rd tours? Don’t these count as not usual troop turn around meaning basically escalation? It doesn’t matter where the troops come from if they are being used in a way that is not normal they should be counted as extra troops. When people work OT they are counted as such so these guys and gals should be too.


  14. hellinabucket says:

    11. If a draft is suggested then we’ll have to remind all who started this, who ignored the intelligence and military estimates, who squandered the billions in private no bid contracts and who put us in the position we are today. If all hell and high water break loose and we are faced with needing a draft, not for the stabilization for Iraq because I don’t think that will ever fly, but for our own security (and I mean our own, not the boogie man terror). Then the American people will have to collectively look at the sacrifices we are faced with. As a nation. Not for a war of opportunity that has less of a chance succeeding than the Cubs have of wining a world series.


  15. ForTruth says:

    He has consistently called for more troops. Don’t get me wrong here, I am on the Dem’s side. I guess I am feeling passive aggressive toward TP today, no real reason, **clearing throat**


  16. PatrioticLiberalChristian(PLC) says:

    Mickey Mouse — I fixed your post with the highlighted edit:

    90% of Iraqis dont want American military in Iraq , theres only 2 people in the world want you there and thats Bush and his Puppet Maliki

    Whats so hard for the Republicans to understand about this?


  17. Bluedog49 says:

    The next time McCaine appears on Face the Nation, will the whores there continue to refer to him as “Mr. Straight-talk?” They’ve been carrying his water now for years. It’s part of their corporate-board-approved script. Will they be able to change the script without getting in trouble with their bosses?


  18. Gregor Samsa says:

    The rationale behind this “surge” in a nutshell is:

    “We don’t know how many more troops we need, for how long, exactly where (Baghdad, Karbala, Anbar, Basrah?), where we would get the volunteers from, or how we would fund this ’surge’. Hey, we don’t even know how to use the additional troops because we will haven’t defined the strategy for ‘victory’. We do know, however, that we need more people. Now. Let’s give them a rifle and send them over there as quickly as possible.”

    It is unsettling to see people throwing their political weight behind such an ill-defined operation with such an ill-defined plan (if there is one). It seems McCain has forgotten what it is like to be sent to fight in a war of aggression.


  19. robert says:

    90% of Iraqis dont want American military in Iraq , theres only 2 people in the world want you there and thats Bush and his Puppet Maliki

    Whats so hard for the democrats to understand about this

    Comment by Mickey Mouse

    Last I knew it was about 70%. Where do you get this new number?


  20. pissedofliberal says:

    Last I knew it was about 70%. Where do you get this new number?

    Comment by robert — January 8, 2007 @ 2:49 pm

    Even with 70%, that means the majority of Iraqi’s don’t want US troops there.. Oh right, I forgot. Will of the people has no meaning with this administration.


  21. Tau says:

    Just give them a few billion dollars, fly over with a C-130 full of 100 bills and dust them, that’ll learn them!



  22. Happy Guy says:

    Where does a liberal get thier facts? 98% of them just make up a percent off the top of thier head.

    Hey #11, so far only Rangle has suggested a draft. So it could be a Democrat’s fault.

    ROTFL


  23. Rebel In CA says:

    Senator McFlip Flop of Arizona.

    I wonder if he will be visiting Randy “Duke” Cunningham, who just transfered to the federal pen near Tuscon.


  24. Mickey Mouse says:

  25. Mickey Mouse says:

    U.N. refugee agency seeks $60 million for urgent help for displaced Iraqis

    BUSHES WORDS WE HAVE NO TROUBLE WITH THE IRAI PEOPLE ….. SO PAY THE FRIGGIN BILL THEN


  26. james k. sayre says:

    Tojo, Benito, Adolph, and Joseph all claimed that “victory” was possible in fascist imperial aggression… Now George is peddling the same stupid crap…


  27. n69n says:

    i liked the irate conservative (’stuart from memphis”) who called into sam seder’s show today & said that troops needed to be in iraq for “at least another ten years!”…& expressed everyhting in football lingo!


  28. Tau says:

    Where does a liberal get thier facts? 98% of them just make up a percent off the top of thier head. -Happy Guy

    From that Liberal Oreilly, you know that guy that went to the Liberal Harvard school of Liberal Kennedy Politics?


  29. Upside00 says:

    Poor Johnny Boy McCain,

    His math skills and his memory have been impacted because of his racking up too many frequent stayer points in the Hanoi Hilton.

    YOOO!!! McCain, it was the N. Vietnamese, not the Iraqis who hosted your stay. (Just to remind you)


  30. buddha9 says:

    This so called surge, a word which as everyone’s pointed is simply spin, isn’t going to mitigate the defeat of america in Iraq which is inevitable, but it is going to postpone the defeat prhaps until someone else is president. It also allows time for Iraqi parliament to hand over oil deposits under contracts to foreign companies, the honouring of these contracts will then be forced onto the victorious iraqi goverment ( whoever that is) as a precondition for aid to rebuild the country which the americians dystroyed.
    Ladies and gentleman this is how it works. 20000 troops makes no difference at all except of course it delays the inevitable, dystroys more of iraq and sends more americans and iraqi’s to the grave.


  31. robert says:

    Mickey Mouse, Thanks for the link. 90% said they think the situation is worse is a little different than saying that “90% of Iraqis dont want American military in Iraq“. I am sure it is still a majority, but maybe not that high.

    But that does seem like one of the more reliable polls out there as they actually went door to door.


  32. wheresthewmd says:

    SetYouFree

    You seem to think the Mehdi Army is just a poor boys scout army!!

    They are responsible for killing UK troops in Basra and Southern Iraq, two uprisings against the US troops and massive ethnic / religious cleansing of Sunnis via infiltration and open domination of the Inetrior Ministyry and Police etc. Didn’t you hear the Sadr chants at Saddam’s hanging?

    They are pro Iranian proxies, and the US has got itself into a complete quagmire by empowering the likes of the obviously secular por western liberal democratic Dawa Party and SCIRI ( Supreme Council for ISLAMIC REVOLUTION in Iraq)-(soon to open branches in Kensington)while at the same time contemplating military action to cripple Iran’s nuclear ambitions ( if Israel doesn’t do the US a favout by doing it first).


  33. LostintheUS says:

    The 20,000 more troops are to keep the mess at an impasse for the rest of Bush’s term in office. Nothing more. That way, the Democrats will be blamed for a “defeat”. (As most agree that there is no way the Republicans will win the White House again for a while.)

    Of course, it will only provide more targets and victims and destruction. There were a half million American troops in Vietnam when it ended in a Wagnerian debacle. I asked a friend who has a military tradition in her family, with several close family members who have served multiple tours in Iraq and none of them want an increase in troops. They do not believe it will do any good. But then, we all know that.


  34. dlet says:

    20,000…80,000…100,000…30,000. Sounds like he is playing “Deal or No Deal” with our troops.


  35. West Texan says:

    “The best criterion for judging the quality of expert opinion is whether it proves to be right or wrong.”–Daniel Yanelovich

    “The surge” is being brought to us by the same people who brought us “Iraq WMD” and “Saddam’s link to 9/11.”

    “The surge” is being brought to us by the same people who said the Iraqis would meet our troops with open arms and roses.

    “The surge” is being brought to us by the same people who said this conflict would last at most six months and be paid for by Iraq’s oil revenues.

    “The surge” is being brought to us by the same people who have as recently as three months ago said the war is going “remarkably well.”

    Has this administration not been sufficiently discredited?
    And the neocons who cooked up “the surge,” have they not been sufficently discredited?

    I am reminded of Eric Hoffer’s comments in regards to Hitler’s rise in Nazi Germand: “It colors my thinking and shapes my attitude toward events. I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.”


  36. tarazan says:

    There is no logic in sending another 20,000 troops…Iraq is full of young men who are jobless,and the unemployment is extremely high. The cost to recruit and send an American to Iraq cost about 50 time than hiring an Iraqi…who is paid around $60.00 a month now. So, why is this fuss over sending troops..Iraq is full of people who know how to shoot…after all..it is their country.


  37. 2ndRedMonk says:

    20,000 more troops is nothing more than prolonging the agony so that the current administration can leave office and hand over their mess to the Democrats who will then preside over a calmitous defeat leaving the fickle American public blaming them for it, thus allowing the Republicans to take office again (this time with Jeb Bush at the helm of the rudderless Republicans). God bless ‘em all. The guys in the know i.e the generals want out AND to leave Iran alone. Its the Hawks like Cheney, Gates etc who want the ’surge’. How many deaths did Saddam hang for? 168. What about those criminals in the white house Cheney, Bush etc? Resposible for at least 600,000plus US & Iraqi. How many Iraqis dead since the 1st gulf war 1.5-2 million and rising at the hands of who? America and the UN. Seems a bit unfair. Should’nt all murderers be punished by law?


  38. b.h. says:

    TP Monkey I understand your frustration.
    I would go with 20 000 as one unit of McCain.
    Then you could just say McCain is now calling for a escalation of 5 McCains.

    (btw I tried to coin the term Rummy a while back.

    Think how easy this would be to repeat when necessary.
    Due to the recent Rummy the US is sending in a McCain, hoping everything will be resolved in a Friedman or two.


  39. Tau says:

    The 20,000 more troops are to keep the mess at an impasse for the rest of Bush’s term in office. Nothing more. That way, the Democrats will be blamed for a “defeat”. (As most agree that there is no way the Republicans will win the White House again for a while.)

    Bush said a long time ago that he would be passing this off to the next president, as well as the backloaded taxes that wont come due until 2011 or so. Those fiscal Republicans!

    I say we elect a Republican fall guy in 2008. Rudy JulieAnnie (Womans drag photo) would make a good patsy.


  40. Clyde the Ripper says:

    Today they call them “Militia” and “Insurgents.” Forty years ago they called them “NVA” and “VC.” Forty years ago McPain wanted the troops returned home ASAP–especially one: himself. What possible excuse can be given, other than greed and stupidity, for sending more troops and not letting them use their weapons or training? If we want to win the war in Iraq all that has to be done is to tell the troops to do their job and shoot the bad guys. When the bad guys are gone they can come home. Let them decide at the time who the bad guys are, not the politicians deciding after the fact and punishing the troops for doing their job. Forget about Deja Vu all over again it is Viet Nam all over again. Forget about Hanoi Hattie, Jand Fonda, and “Charlie. We now have Jihad John, and Baghdad Bumbles. Just impeach the lot and bring the troops home. Forget the BS.



  41. margaret says:

    2ndRedMonk is trying to scare us! Jeb Bush?! I suspect he would have been better than the current one but I don’t think this planet can take another Bush!


  42. robert says:

    TripMaster Monkey,

    Maybe a McCain is a number that has no real value. King of like a SWAG (Scientific Wild A$$ Guess)

    You could always “McCain” the numbers.

    How does this sound
    “I have a McCain of money in my account.” It could be $1 million or $10.


  43. Krazny says:

    Robert,

    I think it would be better to describe a situation, where you had a good chance, but then lost it for one reason or another.

    Like “I had a shot to sleep with her, but when I asked about her sister it mccained the whole thing.”

    What do you think?


  44. robert says:

    Krazny

    Works for me.


  45. Blue Meme says:

    Quite simple, really.

    1. McCain has staked out the hawkish position.

    2. He knows that whatever Bush attempts will fail.

    3. To avoid being tarred with Bush’s failure, and preserve his “we would have won if we did what I advocated” argument, he must keep moving rightward and away from whatever Bush’s plan is.

    4. Ergo McCain’s plan will always be whatever Bush advocates plus at 10,000 troops.

    Smart. Also cynical, soul-less, hypocritcal and horrifying. But smart.


  46. Emboldened » Blog Archive » More on GOP Contenders’ Iraq Stances says:

    [...] McCain, Giuliani, and Gingrich are for a troop surge. Romney was against a troop surge before he was for it (surprise surprise). Pataki and Brownback seem to be against a surge, though I wouldn’t characterize their opposition as exactly Kucinich-like. McCain had called for a deployment of 100,000 new troops to Iraq in December, but has since scaled back to the Bush/Lieberman number of 30,000 (ThinkProgress has more). [...]


  47. The Crapture says:

    Between his affiliation with Charlie Keating and his willingness to roll over and play dead after being slimed by the Bush-bots in the 2000 primaries, i have come to the conclusion that McCain is nothing but a finger-in-the-wind opinion whore who is now mistakenly tracking the breeze from the cesspool that is the Bush administration.


  48. St. McCain « Beware The Man says:

    [...] 8 Jan 2007 St. McCain Posted by John O under Political  Fertile groundindeed. [...]


  49. cowboyneok says:

    So no matter how many troops are sent the good Senator is going to “McCain” the decision by saying, “If ONLY… they had sent X amount of troops for X amount of time… we would have won it all!”

    Uh huh…


  50. SalJournal.com Blogs » Blog Archive » Escalation says:

    [...] It looks likely that President Bush will be proposing an escalation in the war in Iraq. But will it be the escalation called for in the much vaunted McCain Doctrine? Unfortunately that’s hard to assess since the troop levels called for by Senator McCain have varied considerably over the past month. [...]


  51. padcrasher says:

    The actual formula McCain will be using is :

    (What Bush can scrap together + 10,000)


  52. Randy Nason says:

    McCain would do better to save his time, energy and money and not bother to try and put himself in the public spotlight. His stance in the national/international political arena is so yesterday that I already fell asleep tomorrow. He actually thinks that representing the Republican Party and competing with George W. is something to be proud of and a strength. In this new century, what we don’t need is another brown-nosed, arrogant “yes” man.


  53. Squidbilly says:

    Johnny M’s presidential ambitions are vaporizing…………….



  54. Edward Andraka says:

    We just cant walk away from Iraq. We need it for a foothold for our inevitable confrontation with Iran.If we dont stand up and fight it out they will cut out our oil supply. I dont want to ride a horse to work. Do you?


  55. Don Shaw says:

    McCain is right. We need to finish it now with the small addition of troops.


  56. anthony desimone says:

    you’re a great american. i don’t want you to be my president.


  57. DAVE DEEB says:

    ANYONE WHO WOULD SEND OUR TROOPS INTO THE MIDDLE OF A CIVIL WAR WHERE WE ARE HATED BY BOTH SIDES IS GUILTY OF CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE. THE ONLY GOOD OPTION IS TO GET THE HELL OUT NOW. AND THAT MEANS THE ENTIRE MIDDLE EAST. WE HAVE THE MOST POWERFUL AIR FORCE IN THE WORLD AND COULD BE VERY EFFECTIVE AT CONTROLLING THE BEHAVIOR OF THE CONTIGUOUS STATES INCLUDING TURKEY KEEPING THEIR HANDS OFF KURDISTAN. MEANWHILE DO THE UNTHINKABLE, TALK TO PEOPLE. THE CLERICS AND MILITIA LEADERS AND AREA LEADERS AS WELL. HOW ABOUT 10,000 TO EACH SUNI FAMILY FOR RELOCATION OUT OF IRAQ? ANYTHING WOULD BE BETTER THAN ANY FURTHER TROOP INVOLVMENT. LETS MOVE TO AN INTELLIGENT STRATEGY AGAINST TERRORIST GROUPS WITH OUR ALLIES.DAVE DEEB GRAND RAPIDS,MI.


  58. Robert Gordon says:

    How long is it going to take for us, as a nation, to recognize that the war in Iraq was lost three and a half years ago through a series of poorly thought out, ill-planned movements? The incursion into Afghanistan was a proper move but almost everything since then has been one complete disaster after another. It was plain to see that when Sadam was toppled there was going to be a mother of all blood baths shaping up since there was no one to take responsibility for keeping the opposing sides from killing each other. Whether we leave this afternoon, next month, in five years, there is going to be a devastating carnage erupt and right now all we are doing is furnishing ready targets for the Iraq antagonists. At some point. to our everlasting shame, we are going to have to withdraw and let the disparate forces in Iraq settle their differences in their own way in their own time – this is not something that we or any outside country can impose on them. They have lived a way of life for hundreds of years and we have no ready alternative for them to follow. Let’s get that mess in Afghanistan straightened out and then call it a day.


  59. Barbara MacKeon says:

    I agree with these 2 people.
    ANYONE WHO WOULD SEND OUR TROOPS INTO THE MIDDLE OF A CIVIL WAR WHERE WE ARE HATED BY BOTH SIDES IS GUILTY OF CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE. THE ONLY GOOD OPTION IS TO GET THE HELL OUT NOW. AND THAT MEANS THE ENTIRE MIDDLE EAST. WE HAVE THE MOST POWERFUL AIR FORCE IN THE WORLD AND COULD BE VERY EFFECTIVE AT CONTROLLING THE BEHAVIOR OF THE CONTIGUOUS STATES INCLUDING TURKEY KEEPING THEIR HANDS OFF KURDISTAN. MEANWHILE DO THE UNTHINKABLE, TALK TO PEOPLE. THE CLERICS AND MILITIA LEADERS AND AREA LEADERS AS WELL. HOW ABOUT 10,000 TO EACH SUNI FAMILY FOR RELOCATION OUT OF IRAQ? ANYTHING WOULD BE BETTER THAN ANY FURTHER TROOP INVOLVMENT. LETS MOVE TO AN INTELLIGENT STRATEGY AGAINST TERRORIST GROUPS WITH OUR ALLIES.DAVE DEEB GRAND RAPIDS,MI.How long is it going to take for us, as a nation, to recognize that the war in Iraq was lost three and a half years ago through a series of poorly thought out, ill-planned movements? The incursion into Afghanistan was a proper move but almost everything since then has been one complete disaster after another. It was plain to see that when Sadam was toppled there was going to be a mother of all blood baths shaping up since there was no one to take responsibility for keeping the opposing sides from killing each other. Whether we leave this afternoon, next month, in five years, there is going to be a devastating carnage erupt and right now all we are doing is furnishing ready targets for the Iraq antagonists. At some point. to our everlasting shame, we are going to have to withdraw and let the disparate forces in Iraq settle their differences in their own way in their own time – this is not something that we or any outside country can impose on them. They have lived a way of life for hundreds of years and we have no ready alternative for them to follow. Let’s get that mess in Afghanistan straightened out and then call it a day.


  60. null manuel S Rivera says:

    Mr. McCain and Bush Doctrine are contaminating to de United States society because they call the American people ignorant, but why they call the American ignorance? Because the American society we have education then Bush and McCain just believe in evil ideas to still kill more civilians in Iraq.
    Bush Administration and the Republican Party still ignorant the American people voice. I want to remember to the Republican Party and Bush Administration you are only employees fro the nation; the American people we can replace, Fired and impeachment for bad behavior, because the American people we are not ignorant; the American people we have education just we are not agree in you mental behavior; because the American society we love democracy and Democracy has definition, Also have interpretation. It’s not personal opinion.
    In conclusion I will mention two examples of the mental behavior from the Republican Party: one was when the Europe’s came to my Land and kill my people because I am Navaho Indian, and Navahos we never get to Europe or others countries, and I don’t like the Republican Party doctrine. I don’t think the Iraqis Love the Republicans Party or Bush Administration. I think most the American people we are hate the bad behavior from the Republican Party. And all the world hate too this doctrine because this is not politic system is a mental doctrine system from this group of the evil people in this “politic party”.
    I prace the Lord to deliver us from bad and Evil “The Republican Party”. Thank you and God bless the world.


  61. Carl from L.A. says:

    Face it- McCain will always call for a few thousand more troops than he thinks Bush will send, so he can play Mr. tough guy, while absolving himself from any responsibility for the carnage which is all that awaits our further involvement in Iraq.



  62. Gregory says:

    Gregory

    Bravo! Finally a great blog.




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