“Support” the troops for 50 years?

I notice that he did not say it in the terms;

“The American people will support Bush’s deployment of the troops for 50 years”.
Now why didn’t McCain say it in those terms?

NO! “The key” is this idea that the US has the right of preemptive strike which it doesn’t. That is just wrong in today’s post USSR world.
We have no right to be in Iraq, and had no right to invade a soverign nation. American presence is the result of a preemptive illegal invasion, and the casualties are the result of that.

“We have had troops in South Korea for 60 years and nobody minds,” McCain said. “If you stay a long, long time, but have the Iraqis doing the fighting, and your people are back in the bases and away from the firing line, I think Americans would be satisfied.”

I certainly hope they would not be satisfied! If they would be they would be backing BushCo’s whole ideology of “the ends justifies the means.” As long as we are OK in our bases controling the country it was fine to kill, torture and destroy to get there.
This paragraph is a sad attempt to justify this illegal, stupid occupation. McBush is a war monger in a suit. Until he can be thrown out of power he should be kicked to the dustbin of history.

He’s absolutely right. If Iraq was a peaceful host for our military, then nobody would have any problem with keeping them there.

So, you are pro invasion? That is what comes through from your statement. Do you believe that if the invasion and occupation had gone the way the neocons had spun it, it would be fine to occupy Iraq? That it was was right to invade Iraq? That we have the right to invade a soverign nation, and if all goes well it is no problem?

Have you thought this out for yourself, or do you simply accept what someone in a position (here McBush) in power says?

Not only will the majority of Americans not support this (God, I hope!), but
the Muslim nations will NOT settle for it, at all!

It will continue to provide the true radicals more and more recruitment material as more and more of their loved ones are killed and America takes the blame.

He’s f*ckin’ nuts!

Unlike the Koreans, who for most of the 50 years believed American troops helped stem off attack from the North, Iraqis are going to believe, correctly, that the American troops are an occupation force and will spend the next 50 years attacking their bases.

That photo is way creepy. He looks like a model for H R Giger.

The fight against global poverty is an example. World Leaders have developed the Millennium Development Goals to end world poverty, and it is estimated that only $19 billion more is needed to meet these goals. However, in the US the war in Iraq is diverting critical funds and attention away from the fight against global poverty. A long term presence there would continue to compromise the crucial fight against global poverty.

The problem is that in reality, the suggestion that Iraq will be a peaceful place for our soldiers at any point within the next 50 years is a ridiculous fantasy.

yep – he’s out of his f**king mind

If the laundry lady is willing to blow up, the laundry lady is going to bring the “firing line” to you. It doesn’t matter how much you spend on the base.

McCain talked about the horrors of BIG money in campaigns, while he was completely bought out himself. We cannot trust a word he says.

McCain, the current, corrupt president, his unindicted co-conspirators, and their sycophantic, lock-step drones are completely UNTRUSTWORTHY!

if the Iraqis are doing the fighting, and the americans are back in the bases and away from the firing line, why do they have to be there?