why don't you ask McBush what he meant since he's the one who said it Look budda, you don't seem to want to address a major point: Bush has always said that Iraq if the FRONT in the WAR ON TERROR... THE WAR ON TERROR... THE WAR ON TERROR... HELLOOOOOO!!!!! FRONT FRONT FRONT.... If they would have had success in iraq when the mission accomplished flag was raised, they would have indeed hit Iran or Syria right after. If the War on Terror and current policy stands, as soon as the """""FRONT""""" in Iraq is won, it's on the the next FRONT to win THE WAR ON TERROR...
Good god man, you all should have these concepts, that have been drilled into us by this neocon administration, down pat.
War on Terror=perpetual war
I know what McCain said, which is consistent with what I said. I'm asking about your contention.
Here is what McCain said:
McCain explains 100 years in Iraq commentby Mosheh Oinounou
Rocky River, OH — Continuing to take heat from Democrats for saying last month that “he would be fine” if the U.S. remained in Iraq for 100 years or longer, Sen. John McCain tried again Monday to clarify his statement.
“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’ll be handled by the Iraqis not by us. And then we decide what kind of security arrangement we want to have with the Iraqis,” McCain told a town hall meeting in the Buckeye State this morning.
His latest remarks come in response to repeated attempts by Sen. Barack Obama and other Democrats to argue that McCain supports maintaining troops for a 100 year war in Iraq.
Instead, McCain has repeatedly said on the trail during the past few weeks that he is talking about a long-term post-war military presence similar to the ones the U.S. has with South Korea, Japan and Germany–where the U.S. has maintained troops for more than 50 years.See his 100 years remarks (here)
He also discussed a 1,000-10,000 year commitment in a January CBS News interview (here)
“You might know that we have major base in Kuwait because the first the gulf war, after we won, we had a base arrangement with the Kuwaitis. In Korea we’ve had as you know, ever since the Korean war we’ve had a military presence in South Korea,” McCain said. “So my Democrat friends like to distort that comment, but the fact is that…every single day (the situation) is improving and we take American young men and women out of harms way.”
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http://embeds.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/02/25/mccain-explains-100-years-in-iraq-comment/