flip flopping republican liar... he's a loser like the rest of the republican party... november can't come soon enough to rid us of Bush... and a vote for mccain is a vote for a 3rd Bush term

Newsflash, McCain is the only one who could really get the troops home quickly. I don't really like McCain, but if you need to win over a mojroity in the congress and senate to get the troops home quick, he's the only one who could even possibly turn republicans over to support it. No democrat could pull that much support for soemthing that seems like "cut and run". The democrats can talk about bringing them home, but it will be a struggle against the republicans, but a war hero and republican can do it with much less struggle. Just a thought.

Yeah...sure. Now he realizes that he needs votes to win and that the war is unpopular. Sorry, he should have figured that out when he announced his candidacy. I doubt he can even spell 'economics', much less lead us to prosperity. The only thing he is capable of is lining his own pockets and grabbing more power from the people. Who the heck wants an unbalanced, racist (remember the 'burka' comment?), who has been mentally & physically tortured for years to be in charge of the single, most powerful nation on Earth? Not I...he's nuts for even trying to get elected. He looks so doped up on medications that I don't think he can even have an original thought anymore, much less any kind of realistic solutions for todays' problems.

LOL The peanut in the Republisheeps' heads are going to explode trying to figure out they can still spin themselves as being more (gag) 'patriotic' than the rest of us . . .

Once a Neocon,always a Neocon. A Neocon doesn't need viagra,just wars forever are stimulating enough.

McBushcain is a flip-flopping liar.
He dosen't know what to do with himself
if he isn't in a war.
If we elect him, we'll be in a war the
whole time he's in office!!!!
Out with the Republicans!!
We want peace! We want a Democrat!

I think he originally meant that the war will be over when he turns 100, which will be relatively soon. It all reconciles dude.

I wonder if statement that "the war will soon be over" for the US is a break from his support of the current "stay the course" strategy; or if this is just something a politician says to tell people what he thinks they wanna to hear.

Irak does not exist as a single separate entity without an external referee or central strongman. And it seems that if we withdraw to the desert and sit on the sidelines, the goal of a unified centralized Irak ends.

Someone should ask Bush what he thinks about McCain's comments and if he thinks there is little more that the US can do for the Irakis.

Texbork... I do not think the president needs congressional approval to bring the troops home. what makes you think he does.

cynic says - "I do not think the president needs congressional approval to bring the troops home. what makes you think he does."

I think the point was that Dems usually wimp out when it comes to Irak.

But in January when we have a democratic President and a democratic congress, and the election is over which I think was the hypothesis, they will not need to wimp out. So you think that if Obama or Clinton is elected they will wimp out? Congress is irrelevant for the decision to bring them home. This is different from the decision to send them there.

I wonder if McCain remembers everything he told his N. Vietnamese captors either? Or who he talked to about helping about his corporate broadcasting friends and S & L buddies. So help us God we don't need another Bush who has trouble flying a plane.

"...when he turns 100" that's a good one,clever. If your not liberal when you young you have no heart, if your liberal when your old you have no brain (or somehting along those lines / Churchill)
As an anti- abortion Dem., I'll be happily voting for McCain because he's the only one with true military experience to know that we have to be able to respond effectively / decisively militarily in order to avoid war. He will cross parties lines whenever he thinks it's right to do so. And he understands simple concepts like taking responsibility for oneself, and making the correct choices, especially when the cost is high (reluctant to fight, but not afraid) like standing up for the innocent unborn. I bet he even realizes that women and childrens healthcare, true healthcare that does NO harm, can be free and of high quality. My bets on McCain!

cynic:

Do you trust Clinton?

She says: "when she's elected as Pres......she'll start bring our troops (i.e., 'some of them') home." Gotta watch the definition of words with them.

Who the *** knows what O would do. Sayin and Doin are two different things.

"soon" ... his definition of soon is 30 yrs instead of 100 years.

man who flips flop is soon eaten fish...

"Where not occupying the country, just waiting for them to stand up." Uh John, if we stay there, they'll never have to chance to stand up. So if we don't give the Iraqi's responsibility and we don't respect their soverignity, then HOW the hell are we EVER gonna leave in 30 or even 100 years? Beware folks, John and his neoconservatives will never turn over security to the Iraqis. It may be their country but as long as it's "our oil", and we sdtay to keep up the pressure on Afghanistan, Pakistan and IRAN, the military will NEVER come home. They are there to intimidate the middle east into allowing us to dictate where their resources go. They have no intention of bringing the troops back in to secure our country OR our open borders. It may be the reason that they're merging our police and national guard and reserves with the Canadians and the Mexicans. We occupy the middle east, while our soverignity is erased in favor of our borders being "secured" with canadian and mexican troops. That's the plan and the future of "Homeland Security." Just ask the people who are pulled over in Texas and have to show their idenity while the immigrants are waved on through the checkpoints. How in the hell does that make us more safe? We are spending time shaking down american citizens, while anybody who isn't from our country is welcomed in and even allowed (thanks to a new bill just passed in congress) to get social security benefits, even though they aren't even American citizens, and don't even PAY into the system. I guess allowing it to go bankrupt sooner is progress according to the morons is Washington. This is the kind of "leadership" your getting from BOTH parties today. It almost makes you want to go out and actually vote, even though they probably won't even count it. Score one for "Democracy" I guess.

Commander asks if I trust Clinton. Not completly, but I trust her more than I trust the other candidates. Do you trust any politician? The trouble with the current pres is he thinks he is above the law. but isn't that what McCain is saying about his flip flop on campaign finance. I'll obey it when I need the money and then disregard it when I do not.

Neither Clinton, Mc Cain or Obama are leaving Iraq. Obama and Clinton will start to 'withdrawl troops' then it will conviently stall as 'situations change' .

Why? Campaign slogan or no, uprooting and leaving Iraq would just be an outright waste of the last 5 years, and have SEVERE negative effects on the US image for DECADES.

Not to mention Al Queda tripling its recruits as they 'proved to beat' the united states.

It aint happening. You Obama lovers can fantasize about it all you want. We are not leaving Iraq.

My cousin's son got home from Iraq in November 2007 after being there a year or two (second deployment). She says his orders say that he will be sent to Afganistan this time, in December 2008. All they do is take some troops out and make the doofuses out there think that the troops are "comin' home", then they turn around and send them back a second, third time. Does this sound you all like the US is going to "pull out" troops? It sure doesn't to me. The public is being brainwashed.