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Responding to a student who had criticized his 100-year remark, McCain added, “No American argues against our military presence in Korea or Japan or Germany or Kuwait or other places, or Turkey, because America is not receiving casualties.”
If no American argues against maintaining bases all over the world, then what are we – is this like “with us or against us“?
And then he goes on to say:
Maybe 100. As long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed, it’s fine with me, and I hope it would be fine with you, if we maintain a presence in a very volatile part of the world where al-Qaida is training, recruiting, equipping and motivating people every single day.
So, if Americans are still dying in a few years, McCain will cut and run?
Finally, McCain adds,
[The US] will win the war in Iraq and win it fairly soon.
But hasn’t the war already been declared over?
Andrew T. on 28 Feb 2008 at 7:16 pm #
It appears that McCain, like the more formal neoconservatives, bet the freaking farm on this interventionist foreign policy. Everybody loses.
love the girls on 28 Feb 2008 at 7:24 pm #
“No American argues against our military presence in Korea or Japan or Germany or Kuwait or other places, or Turkey”
I do. All Federal troops, of which there should be few, should be on US soil or US water.
Harold Crews on 28 Feb 2008 at 7:44 pm #
‘love the girls’, glad to hear it (assuming you’re a man), no one who counts argues against ‘our’ military presence in Korea, Japan, Germany, etc. We are obviously the lunatic fringe and don’t count.
Filmer on 28 Feb 2008 at 8:40 pm #
“No American argues against our military presence in Korea or Japan or Germany or Kuwait or other places, or Turkey, because America is not receiving casualties.â€
Well … uhm … err … I do. Ron Paul does. Remember him? What a clown McCain is. Is he being serious, or just dismissive?
Patroon on 28 Feb 2008 at 8:53 pm #
So if the Germans start shooting at us we’ll leave, is that it?
Or is it, we just have to convince Iraqi to quit shooting at us, then we can stay as long as we like?
I’m confused.
roho on 28 Feb 2008 at 10:04 pm #
McCain is delusional, and has been in the Beltway Zoo for too long. This is the same guy that admitted he was lieing when he claimed how safe it was in the “Green Zone”. (Not even admitting that he was in a flak jacket, with gunships above, and armor in front and behind, and about 100 marines.)
I have issues with his sanity as well as his poor political judgement.
roho on 29 Feb 2008 at 12:42 am #
I truely believe that the neocons and the lobby have an agenda that requires war. Wars are planned in advance, inorder to mentally program the citizens for war. McCain knows what his role is, and I believe that this article regarding the 2008 Herzliya Conference and other meetings are legit. 5 Presidential Candidates were at Herzliya, and all knew what the game plan was. And then they all came back and started the primary season, and reported back to Leviathan……It’s worth reading if it posts correctly: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7837 It’s a bit lengthy, but very well written with timelines and documentation.
Cowboy 1894 on 29 Feb 2008 at 6:22 pm #
Personally, I don’t believe McCain is worth all the discussion. Why spend time
on a lost cause? He is just as dangerous to the country as the other two!
Let’s get Ron Paul in there and get on with life while we can. The Lord is coming soon – and the sooner the better.
Cowboy
Bill R on 29 Feb 2008 at 6:44 pm #
There’s a better likelihood of Christ returning soon than there is of Ron Paul winning the White House. That’s a simple fact. He’s road kill. Died of malnutrition. The media (all forms) are united in stifling him. Obviously because he is the ONLY candidate who believes in Constitutional government as it was designed. Doesn’t matter. He has NO chance. So our choice is, vote for (once again) the “lesser of the evils” or not vote at all and let God take charge of it. The problem with voting for the “lesser of two evils” you are assured of getting some form of evil, and the next choices given you will be more evil and less of a choice as we are seeing now.
Weaver on 29 Feb 2008 at 8:25 pm #
I don’t think there is a lesser of evils in this race; I think I want Obama to win actually.
roho on 29 Feb 2008 at 11:08 pm #
Good Point Weaver!……………..OBOMA is nutty as a fruitcake, but has young people thinking and involved. Sometimes, things have to get crazy before the status-quo can be destroyed! He ain’t my guy, but he can certainly shake up the beltway, and punish some treasonous phoney conservatives in the process…………There are some intresting things about him that will be entertaining to watch, even if he destroys America?……Ha-Ha.
1. He ain’t an Israel Firster yet!
2. He is on a non-interventionist track so far.
3. It is natural for him to hate the establishment in Washington.
4. It’s practicaly gaurenteed that conservatism will flourish after 4 years of him.
5. It will be “Open Season” on the NEOCONS and those like “POD” will be ran out of town by the PC mainstream media!
6. His positions on “Free TRade” will benefit the middle class.
Compared to McCain, he looks sane!
csason on 01 Mar 2008 at 1:54 am #
If we are going to annex the world..we should impose heavy taxes in the form of oil..
Wait a sec, that’s what we’ve BEEN doing…only the moneychangers
are scraping all the octane off the top.
levotb on 01 Mar 2008 at 4:44 pm #
I’m with Weaver. McAmnesty, though he’s on a trek to get conservatives to back him, keeps trotting out these nursing home RINOs to endorse him, like James Baker. Do you think that Baker’s gonna inspire young people to come out for McNasty? I don’t think so.
Look for a blowout in November.
Jan814 on 01 Mar 2008 at 7:59 pm #
The more one learns about Obama, the more one understands that he is at least as insane as McCain.
Read about him at
VDARE.com
http://isteve.blogspot.com
The American Conservative
http://obamatracker.com
etc.
Steve Sailer is especially useful.
However, the media’s worship of Obama may not be good for Barach Hussein.
He is as member of the Chicago political machine, which seems still to be as corrupt as it always has been. If one digs deep enough, one surely will find alliances and votes by BHO that he would not want to be widely discussed.
Once he gets the nomination, the Republican 527 sleaze machine will send in its own investigators to dig up the dirt and put out ads about the dirt not too long before the November election. (As they did to Kerry in 2004). If the media revealed Obama’s sins earlier, the great American peepull (who have a memory of about a nano-second) would have en ugh time to forget about tmhe.