McCain: ‘The War Will Be Over Soon’
McCain: ‘The War Will Be Over Soon’
In a townhall meeting today, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was asked about the status of the situation in Iraq. McCain, who notoriously said last month that U.S. troops could be in Iraq for another 10,000 years, said “the war will soon be over“:
That reminds me this 100 year thing. I was asked in a town hall meeting back in Florida, how long would we have a presence in Iraq?
My friends, the war will be over soon, the war for all intents and purposes although the insurgency will go on for years and years and years. But it will be handled by the Iraqis, not by us, and then we decide what kind of security arrangement we want to have with the Iraqis.
Listen to it:
For years, McCain has misjudged the length of conflict in Iraq, repeatedly telling the American public that the war will be over soon. Some lowlights:
I think the victory will be rapid, within about three weeks. [MSNBC, 1/28/03]
It’s clear that the end is very much in sight. … It won’t be long. It, it’ll be a fairly short period of time. [ABC, 4/9/03]
We’re either going to lose this thing or win this thing within the next several months. [Meet The Press, 11/12/06]
Although McCain says “the war will be over soon,” he still wants to keep U.S. troops in Iraq for hundreds of years, even acknowledging that the Iraq insurgency will simultaneously “go on for years and years and years.”
To recap, here’s what McCain said in January about the length of an Iraq occupation: “one hundred years, one thousand years, ten thousand years or until the earth collapses under global climate change.”
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100 years is soon?
February 25th, 2008 at 2:57 pmOld people can get confused with dates and times … don’t be too hard on him. Make sure he gets his nap and eats lots of fiber.
February 25th, 2008 at 2:59 pmPlans for Iraq both democrat and republican
1/ sign oil contracts
2/ stay forever to protect American investments
3/ ignore Oil contracts signed under occupation are illegal
February 25th, 2008 at 3:00 pmHe’s already beyond Reagan’s level of senility.
February 25th, 2008 at 3:00 pmWar? Occupation? How long will their oil be available for pillage?
February 25th, 2008 at 3:01 pmA smart campaign will splice together the
I think the victory will be rapid, within about three weeks. [MSNBC, 1/28/03]
It’s clear that the end is very much in sight. … It won’t be long. It, it’ll be a fairly short period of time. [ABC, 4/9/03]
We’re either going to lose this thing or win this thing within the next several months. [Meet The Press, 11/12/06]
Clips together with the recent footage, and show the Pander Express at full throttle.
February 25th, 2008 at 3:03 pmand then wedecide what kind of security arrangement we want to have with the Iraqis.
who decides ?????????
February 25th, 2008 at 3:05 pmI submitted it to digg:
February 25th, 2008 at 3:06 pmhttp://digg.com/politics/McCain_The_War_Will_Be_Over_Soon
You’d have to be Bill Kristol to throw around more empty rhetoric than McMaverick does.
Does he really think no one’s going to hold him to his word during a Presidential campaign?? I think he really is naive about it, because he’s never in all his ambitious, grasping days, gotten this far. It’s all alien turf for him from here on in, and he’s obviously thinking that his seniority exempts him serious scrutiny. tee-hee, little maverick – you’re in for quite an education…
February 25th, 2008 at 3:09 pmThis is not a war, this is an invasion, and the GOP plans to celebrate the “soon” ending of this war at their “Earth is 6,100 Years Old” birthday party.
February 25th, 2008 at 3:09 pmRowley Birkin would be proud of this speech
February 25th, 2008 at 3:09 pmone might purse one’s lips outward, moistening them with your favorite substance, use one’s index finger, either hand, move so that the finger comes in contact with both lips and move vertically until a sound occurs that will drown out the person speaking. good only for children’s amusement and bloodsucker’s speaking.
February 25th, 2008 at 3:15 pmIs that “soon” as in the near future? You know, the definition of soon?
February 25th, 2008 at 3:16 pmSoon must mean before McCan’t croaks.
February 25th, 2008 at 3:17 pmRuhroh, McCain is setting up his friends for more Friedmans.
February 25th, 2008 at 3:18 pm100 years? 1,000 years? Already over?
WTF???
Jebus. The man is senile.
February 25th, 2008 at 3:19 pmWhat happened to the 100 Year War II?
February 25th, 2008 at 3:20 pmGeorge said “As the Iraqis stand up, we will stand down.”
McCain says “As the Iraqis stand up, we will stick around.”
February 25th, 2008 at 3:20 pmThe “war” will be over soon, but the “occupation” will continue indefinitely. Sure the occupation may involve the same number of troops as are in the war and sure the fighting may continue at the same high level it is now, but the label will be different so it will be okay. Remember, a lot of people claim the “war” was over when Bush announced “Mission Accomplished” some years ago.
And, of course money or property pledged as a security against a loan is only “collateral” if you can’t pay back the loan. The definition of common words are might slippery when coming from McCain’s lips.
February 25th, 2008 at 3:23 pmMaybe McNasty was having flashbacks to Vietnam, the 10,000-DAY war.
February 25th, 2008 at 3:28 pmif he says “my friends” one more time, I’m gonna puke
February 25th, 2008 at 3:29 pmThe war is Europe is over. We still have troops there. We have troops in Korea. But none of them are fighting. So if the fighting stops in Iraq, do we pull the troops?
February 25th, 2008 at 3:29 pmThe war ended effectively once we reached Baghdad and the Iraqi army put down their arms and abandoned the field. That was about a month after the invasion. So the war is OVER. The occupation, however, has been an abject failure. Just how do you “win” an occupation? Strengthening Iran by installing a Shite-dominated government? Arming and training Sunni tribesmen who are temporarily on our side, until they pick the time to destroy the Shite government? Allowing Afghanistan to increasingly devolve to the level that both the Taliban and Al-Qaeda are stronger than ever and having a greater impact in Pakistan? If the Taliban gain a foothold in Iraq, you can expect Iran to come to the defense of the Shite population there. And that will bring in the Sauds probably. This will eventually happen and will happen whether or not we are there. The U.S. opened Pandora’s box when we invaded Iraq, illegally and without cause, and the result is that we, the rest of the region, and perhaps the entire world, will have to deal with the monsters that we created.
February 25th, 2008 at 3:34 pmseems as though everything America touches turns to shit
February 25th, 2008 at 3:34 pmWWII is over, but we still have a presence in Germany and Japan.
Comment by good_golly — February 25, 2008 @ 3:25 pm
Yeah, and the local populations WANT us there. Big difference, dumbs**t.
February 25th, 2008 at 3:34 pmMy friends.
Comment by good_golly
Get real, you have no friends, even dogs hate you.
February 25th, 2008 at 3:34 pmGet back under the bed, Frank, the terrorists are on the front lawn again.
February 25th, 2008 at 3:37 pmWWII is over, but we still have a presence in Germany and Japan.
Comment by good_golly — February 25, 2008 @ 3:25 pm
“Status of Force” agreements; same thing that the Bush administration wants with Iraq also. Big difference: People aren’t shooting and blowing up each other or our troops in Germany and Japan.
February 25th, 2008 at 3:37 pm23. Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat past mistakes, like appeasing dictators, for example.
Comment by good_golly — February 25, 2008 @ 3:29 pm
So, goony, you mean “dictators” like the king in Saudi Arabia? Musharraf in Pakistan? Our “forever friends” who still chop peoples’ heads off and throw dissidents in prison?
Those dictators?
February 25th, 2008 at 3:40 pmComment by Bush Cover Ups
You should have clarified that by saying -
Everything REPUBLICANS touch turns to sh!t.
Or everything Frank M posts is sh!t.
Much more accurate.
February 25th, 2008 at 3:42 pmwoo-hoo here comes Frank – cue the Wagner and polish the jackboots
February 25th, 2008 at 3:43 pm23. Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat past mistakes, like appeasing dictators, for example.
Comment by good_golly — February 25, 2008 @ 3:29 pm
Does appeasing dictators include propping them up, as we did Saddam, Noreiga, Musharaff, Pinochet, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, King Abdullah, Batiste, and many more?
February 25th, 2008 at 3:45 pmWe brought down the Nazi Europe and rebuilt it…
Comment by Frank M — February 25, 2008 @ 3:37 pm
as an American ideal under the leadership of George w. Bush.
That’s what F Moron really means.
February 25th, 2008 at 3:46 pmMr. Golly – that’s why we haven’t wanted everyone appeasing the Cheerleader Prince these last 7 years.
February 25th, 2008 at 3:47 pmFrankie, are you truly that stupid or are you just being obtuse?
I shall speak ver-r-r-r-y slowly so you can understand:
We don’t hate America, Frankie.
We hate the criminals (GeeDumbya & Co.) who are currently gangraping her, stealing everything that isn’t nailed down and creating terrorists who will want to kill us all for the next thousand years.
Got that?
February 25th, 2008 at 3:48 pmMcCain said “the war will soon be overâ€
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Forgive me if I’m a bit skeptical. I’ve heard this song and dance before. At least he didn’t say “last throes”…
February 25th, 2008 at 3:51 pmOur quality of living is unparalleled in the history of mankind. Yeah, we’ve really turned everything to shit…
Comment by Frank M — February 25, 2008 @ 3:37 pm
What a crock of shit.
February 25th, 2008 at 3:52 pmCan this man make up his mind on anything? He changes his opinions on a daily basis. That is NOT the kind of person I want as my President. I want someone who can change their mind if circumstances change and there is new information, but not a President who spits on his finger and puts it up to see which way the wind is blowing!
February 25th, 2008 at 3:54 pmSecret McShame code words to look out for:
My friends ~ decoded = You ignorant suckers…
February 25th, 2008 at 3:57 pm“We are, and have been, free world’s bulwark against tyranny and poverty. ”
frank m
Until Bush came along, and turned us into the world’s leading terrorists. Living in the past is what you morons do, so you can avoid the present and its problems, which you rightards have created by being ignorant, racist, fearful cowards. We are now the leading creators of tyranny and poverty, a mass-murdering tribe of capitalist greedmongers, a bloodthirsty nation of rightwing savages, without any redeeming human qualities, thanks to rightwing, fascist pukes and their mindless followers.
February 25th, 2008 at 3:59 pm23. Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat past mistakes, like appeasing dictators, for example.
Kind of like how we appeased Saddam as long as it was convenient for us? Or how about all the other “dictators” we have appeased over the years. I guess it’s OK to appease a dictator if we are getting something in return, but not OK to appease a dictator if we are not getting something in return. Perhaps one our our uber intelligent trolls can answer than question.
February 25th, 2008 at 3:59 pmTime for Grampa McCain to take his nap…
February 25th, 2008 at 4:04 pmThose who do not study history are doomed to repeat past mistakes, like….
Comment by good_golly
Has it occured to you that our government is full of people that have studied history yet they still repeat the same mistakes?
February 25th, 2008 at 4:06 pmWe crushed Communism and brought along the world of free trade where everyone can get rich by working hard enough. Our quality of living is unparalleled in the history of mankind. Yeah, we’ve really turned everything to shit…
If the troll who is Francine truly believes this clap trap, it is beyond help. It sees the world from it’s own little bubble. It needs to get out more and talk to real people who are working their a$$es off just to put food on the table and gasoline in their car. Why aren’t they getting rich? What about the people who are working two jobs to make up the salary of the one job they lost because it went over seas? Why aren’t they getting rich. They are working doubly hard. I also love the “quality of living unparalleled in the history of mankind”. As your neighbor down the street how he fells about that as his house is being repossessed.
I am so looking forward to seeing how these idiot trolls react to the landslide that is coming and the end of the Republiscum party. It can’t happen soon enough.
February 25th, 2008 at 4:13 pmHey! Bilibo! Don’t bother Francine. She’s got hers, and fu(k everybody else.
February 25th, 2008 at 4:16 pmAnd there’s “light at the end of the tunnel”. Sorry if someone already said this, my work schedule doesn’t coincide with the activity on the site.
February 25th, 2008 at 4:25 pmWhat he didn’t mention was “soon… relative to the heat-death of the universe”.
February 25th, 2008 at 4:26 pmWe crushed Communism and brought along the world of free trade where everyone can get rich by working hard enough -Frank M
You mean you support empire and exploiting poor countries for cheap labor and resources.
February 25th, 2008 at 4:51 pmWe are, and have been, free world’s bulwark against tyranny and poverty. We brought down the Nazi Europe and rebuilt it. We crushed Communism and brought along the world of free trade where everyone can get rich by working hard enough. Our quality of living is unparalleled in the history of mankind. Yeah, we’ve really turned everything to shit…
Comment by Frank M
Somebody passed me my INDOCTRINATION AND PROPAGANDA-ENGLISH ENGLISH-INDOCTRINATION AND PROPAGANDA dictionary. I need to know what all those words are.
February 25th, 2008 at 5:01 pmAnd then we’re going to start another one?
February 25th, 2008 at 5:05 pmComment by Frank M — February 25, 2008 @ 3:37 pm
Capitalism doesn’t work, conservatism doesn’t work.
Abolish conservatism and republicanism, then watch your country thrive.
February 25th, 2008 at 5:26 pm“Our quality of living is unparalleled in the history of mankind. Yeah, we’ve really turned everything to shit…”
Under Georgie Boy, things ARE turning to shit, Francine. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, median income in the U.S. peaked in 1999 at $49,224 in constant 2006 dollars. In 2006, median income in the US was $48,201. In other words, the average American household has seen its earning power decline by $1,000 dollars a year under the Boy King. Meanwhile, according to the U.S Commerce Dept., corporate profits rose 21.6 percent in 2006, to a 40-year high.
If you’re a corporate exec or a politician tied into one or more of them, things have been just rosy for you over the past 7 years. For 90% of Americans, however, things ARE turning to shit. If you can’t smell it, you’re likely one of the sources of it…
February 25th, 2008 at 5:43 pmMaybe predictions of a quick end to the war are in their last throes.
February 25th, 2008 at 6:25 pmhttp://newsprism.wordpress.com
In post #28, “good-golly” reminds us that “Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat past mistakes”, and serves up “appeasing dictators” as an example.
Actually, “good-golly”, who is playing the part of Neville Chamberlain, and who is playing the Part of Adolf Hitler? Or do you have some other “appeasement scenario” in mind?
In the meantime, here’s another example of what happens when a “president of the United States” (yep, that would be George W. Bush) does not study history… he opens a second front, just like Adolf Hitler, and fails to win on either.
February 25th, 2008 at 7:19 pmIn the meantime, here’s another example of what happens when a “president of the United States†(yep, that would be George W. Bush) does not study history… he opens a second front, just like Adolf Hitler, and fails to win on either.
Comment by mydogshakespeare — February 25, 2008 @ 7:19 pm
Don’t forget the new turkish and Kosovo fronts. Bush is busy pissing a region twice greater than continental USA, from Eastern Europe to Pakistan and Afghanistan, and a quarter of the population of the world, the muslim people.
February 25th, 2008 at 8:13 pm“But it will be handled by the Iraqis, not by us, and then we decide what kind of security arrangement we want to have with the Iraqis.”
Don’t you mean what kind of security arrangement they want? Iraq belongs to the Iraqis, not us.
February 26th, 2008 at 10:38 amWe won the war in three weeks. We cut throught that country like a hot knife through butter. So far though, we lave lost the peace.
February 26th, 2008 at 1:49 pmSaint John the McC: “… then we decide what kind of security arrangement we want to have with the Iraqis….”
“… and if they don’t like it, ‘eff ‘em, we’ll just invade again….”
Cheers,
February 26th, 2008 at 8:03 pmActually, “good-golly”, who is playing the part of Neville Chamberlain, and who is playing the Part of Adolf Hitler? Or do you have some other “appeasement scenario” in mind?
In the meantime, here’s another example of what happens when a “president of asus a32-a8 battery,asus z99 battery the United States” (yep, that would be George W. Bush) does not study history… he opens a second front, just like Adolf Hitler, and fails to win on either.
October 15th, 2008 at 3:38 am