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We now know that 'swiftboating' means telling the truth!!

General McPeak (Obama adviser) was the first one to use the phrase 100 years that's probabaly where McCain got it......General Wes Clark (Hillary adviser) has always said that McPeak and McCain just don't understand the region...it's our presence there that has created this war.

This is different than Germany or Korea where our presence was to maintain the peace against an identifiable enemy. In Iraq we have rallied an enemy that was not armed or committed to fight us until we presented ourselves.

There's a reason Republicans have been in power so long....it took a centrist like Clinton to break up their streak...and Clinton got a lot accomplished in his 8 years....the whole time they were trying to bring him down. His sex life didn't help...but his record of accomplishment was not his morality.

These guys can't wait to get their hands on Obama...Obama may compare himself to the Kennedys but his experience does not compare. And I for one don't believe that he could stand up to a Republican attack (swiftboat) if he couldn't make a difference in his own church.

Hillary may not have changed Walmart completely but she did make a difference there.

I don't trust Obama's handlers to withstand the Republicans because they are by and large the same Senators that haven't been able to shake any of their policies through the Republican controlled Senate.re

What a great campaign tactic....First we have just watched the presurge troops leave (set for July 08) Then in September Bush pulls out a few more brigades....leaving the next President with 50% of the forces....Maybe around 80,000.............Now Obama and Hillary are faced with a delimna and McCain says "We're winning I want to work with the military to keep an orderly transition"

No Iraq as an issue....How's McCain on the economy again?

@MI guy

Thanks for the answer to my post that was apparently removed. Seems to me the difference with OPEC is that it's a business enterprise rather than motivated by religion. I think OBL would be much harder to deal with than the Saudis.

I think we ought to drill our own oil and get nuclear power going again and anything else we can think so we won't be dependent on people who hate us.

I agree that China is a big problem. In fact, we've got lots of problems and we've probably only begun. Being self sufficient in energy should be of the highest priority.

@SuziQ:

The Middle East has a caliphate - it's called OPEC. They can turn off the spigot anytime - were you around in the 70's? Going to Iraq has done nothing to make our oil any safer - perhaps you haven't noticed but the price of oil has actually trebled since the invasion. And like it or not, it is not OUR oil - it is THEIRS. Our dependence on it is OUR peril. It turns out, though, that the rest of the world needs OUR food. And we used to make a lot of it, give it out cheaply, and make a lot of friends and money in the process. That is, until we became so silly as to waste it making biofuels.

Something even scarier? How about China not buying our T-bills? There is a reason we are holding our criticism of them; our economy would go POP, BANG, KERPLOOIE without them propping up our economy. If we don't stop spending so much money we don't have, we'll all be billionaires and won't be able to afford a loaf of bread.

Not sure what the point of Iran is that you are making? What is the solution that you propose? Sitting in Iraq waiting for them to make nukes so that they can hit our soldiers easier? Invade Iran? Bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran?

Look, the Iraq war was like the new house people bought 5 years ago. Now the mortgage is readjusting and we can't afford it. What do we do, sit in the house until we're bankrupt and foreclosed upon? How about figuring a way out. Now I don't expect Senator McCain to understand this, because he doesn't understand the mortgage crisis either.

I'm not saying don't vote for John McCain for President. He's a nice enough guy. But fiscal conservatives are against him for a reason and the economy is not a strong issue for him (in his own words). I think he has integrity, but his first wife would beg to differ. I thought he was a 'maverick' (and he had my vote in 2000) until he recently started playing footsies with George Bush. I think the majority of people want the next President to clean house of Bush/Cheney cronies. I used to think McCain was the man but now I'm not sure. I want him to have a clean break with the Bush/Cheney policies and he needs more than innuendo to convince me.

let's completely withdraw from iraq and ignore iran's growing influence in that country and iran's desire to develop nuclear weapons.

"Still in Japan? Check.
Still in Germany? Check.
Still in Korea? Check.

This is what McCain meant" HoosierSue

There's a significant difference. The people around those bases were in acceptance of the US being around – at least to the degree that they weren’t flying airplanes into office buildings, etc.

Bin Laden took out the WTCs because his people don't like the US on Arab soil, interfering with their sovereignty and security, etc. If US troops remain on Arab soil in Iraq for the next 100 years, there’s a darn good chance that you and your kids can look forward to suicide bombers for the next 100 years. That’s the problem.

Rarely in history have we seen guerrilla warfare defeated. When it has been, they’ve tended to lack the will and the means. If the suicide attacks haven’t been an indication of the Arab will, all one has to do is consider their resolve over Israel to get some sense of how determined they are.

Guerrilla warfare defeated the US in Vietnam. It defeated the Soviets in Afghanistan. It’s still very much in the fight in Afghanistan against the US and it will continue to be the major problem in Iraq as long as the US troops remain there.

Vanessa

Obviously you're stating something you heard -- not something that McCain said. Like Obama, you snip a sentence out of a paragraph and pretend the rest wasn't said. You and Obama are two peas in a pod.

Actually, Harry Reid's description was completely accurate.

Well that would be the first time. Can you blame anyone for being confused?

@ MIGUY

IRAN IS DEVELOPING NUCLEAR WEAPONS!

IT WAS IN THE NEWS YESTERDAY!

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is going to have nuclear weapons.

Don't we have to vote for Obama, what with affirmative action and all? Or does he just get spotted a few million votes?

Hit the nail on the head, RonPaulSupporter - I don't understand why people just don't look at the numbers...

Republicans know this will be a key phrase Obama and other Democrats will use in GE

They want to down play it

It won't happen

I saw the footage and this was exactly want he said

America can stay in America for as long as 50 or 100 years

@JOHN C:

Iran will not invade Iraq - they are not interested in a regional war. They do not have nuclear weapons. They do not have ballistic missiles capable of reaching us here.

Even if we wanted to protect the border of Iran/Iraq we do not have the money or the troops to do it. And by the way, we would have to protect the border of Iraq/Syria at the same time and we can't do that either. And by the way, we'll have to interject ourselves between the Turks and the Kurds and we can't do that either. Don't believe me? Why don't you go pay a visit there and see for yourself? Might as well drop by Gaza and see the hell the Palestinians are living in. And go through Israel and see the folks worrying about getting blown up by a suicide bomber.

We have the greatest military and troops and country on this planet. The fallacy in this is thinking that our troops haven't done their job - they have. The solution at this point is not the military.

@ AkaDad

and Obama tells Mississippians they are getting HOODWINKED.

Bush jokes about missing WMD's, Hillary jokes about sniper fire, and McCain jokes about bombing Iran.

It's time for a change.

Is there any greater joy than watching republicans spin themselves into supporting John McCain? A man they have spit at for 8 years?

So fun to watch the acrobatics.

Hillary does need to drop out......her stay in is hurting the nominee (OBAMA) by HIGHLIGHTING HIS SHORTCOMINGS!