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McCain: U.S. Troops Home by 2013
May 15, 2008 6:04 AM
ABC News’ Bret Hovell Reports: Sen. John McCain delivered a speech from the not-so-distant future Thursday morning, chronicling what he hopes his first term in the White House will look like, most notably, U.S. troops home from Iraq by 2013.
“By January 2013, America has welcomed home most of the servicemen and women who have sacrificed terribly so that America might be secure in her freedom,” McCain said in Columbus, Ohio.
“The Iraq War has been won,” McCain said. “Iraq is a functioning democracy, although still suffering from the lingering effects of decades of tyranny and centuries of sectarian tension.”
Watch the VIDEO HERE.
The style of the speech – in which the presumptive Republican nominee listed the things he hopes to have accomplished at the end of his first term – reads like his current stump speech, but with verbs in the past tense.
Osama bin Laden will have been captured or killed, McCain said, because of closer cooperation with the government of Pakistan and better intelligence gathering in the region.
“There still has not been another terrorist attack in the United States since Sept. 11, 2001,” McCain added.
Other accomplishments he hopes to achieve include the formation of a League of Democracies to bring to bear pressure on governments that do not share democratic values. He said that that group will use economic pressure to encourage the government of Sudan to allow a peacekeeping force into Darfur which will stop the genocide there.
McCain also talked about his economic plans, including lowering the corporate tax rate, and creating a new, flatter tax code. He said that he will have been able to eliminate pork barrel earmark spending as well.
“After exercising my veto several times in my first year in office, Congress has not sent me an appropriations bill containing earmarks for the last three years,” McCain said.
The Arizona Senator also listed improvements to education and health care, progress towards energy independence and security along the United States' southern border. He said he’ll have press conferences once a week, and will even submit to questioning from a joint session of Congress, “to take questions, and address criticism, much the same as the Prime Minister of Great Britain appears regularly before the House of Commons.”
McCain also criticized the “hyper-partisanship” in Washington “that treats every serious challenge facing us as an opportunity to trade insults.”
May 15, 2008 in Hunter, Duncan | Permalink | User Comments (186)
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Sen. McCain please talk with your fellow Republican George Bush that he has to stop bashing Obama while he is abroad.
What he can do while he is there, is to find the WMD which was the reason of sending our beloved young sons to the heated desert. We miss them teribbly!
Posted by: Peace | May 15, 2008 9:51:52 AM
is he serious, there are his hopes of becoming president
Posted by: dia | May 15, 2008 12:10:10 PM
Ya they will be home by 2013 because by then we will be so broke they will just walk home.
Posted by: John Doe | May 15, 2008 12:14:36 PM
Note to McCain: The "war" was over when we discovered that there were no WMD's and brought Saddam to justice. Stop enabling Bush's lies and bring our soldiers home NOW. We've already lost over 4,000 men and women, not to mention the thousands that have been wounded and permanently disabled in the first 5 years of this "war." We cannot afford, physically and financially, to stay in Iraq for another 5 years.
Posted by: Paula | May 15, 2008 12:19:06 PM
grandpa McCain...time for Florida ..shuffle board & bingo
you probably get a part time job as psychic & palm reader
Posted by: zorar | May 15, 2008 12:23:56 PM
Wake up McCain! The Iraq war is a conventional strategy against a guerrilla threat.
Posted by: JOE | May 15, 2008 12:26:39 PM
McCain always looks like he is going to fall asleep.....
Posted by: Mike | May 15, 2008 12:32:08 PM
Five years is better than 100, but it's still a long time.
Posted by: eric | May 15, 2008 12:32:29 PM
Promises to do things that should have already been done....by previous promises already made by Republicans. Why should we believe this time?
Posted by: Ken | May 15, 2008 12:33:31 PM
And just exactly how many lives of our dear servicemen and women do you want to lose for the sake of Halliburton and EXXON - which then of course equates to lord knows how much for Cheney/Bush, et al?
And why should be believe you anyhow? Please, dear old Grandpa McCoy. If you have any pride left and can still tell you left hand from your right - which is debatable at best - go climb in that big comfy recliner, get a tall cool one, and watch "Lost" or something.
Posted by: Ellen | May 15, 2008 12:33:39 PM
Please don't fall for McCain's lies and fallacies. This is the same person who said we could be in Iraq for the next 100 years!! He knows that the American people are ready for the Iraq invasion to end. He is telling people what they want to hear to win votes in November. If elected, he will very quickly rescind bringing the troops home in 2013!!
Posted by: Carla | May 15, 2008 12:35:10 PM
Here's some more realistic promises for McCain:
Oil will be #250 a barrel.
Gas will be $10 a gallon.
The world will be in full economic depression.
America will be at war on at least three fronts.
Posted by: JR | May 15, 2008 12:36:37 PM
According to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, the overall effect of the McCain campaign’s tax plan would be to reduce federal revenue by more than $5 trillion over 10 years. And cutting pork barrel spending alone is not going to make up the difference. Mr. McCain has said nothing realistic about how he would close the giant budget gap his tax cuts would produce — a gap so large that eliminating it would require cutting Social Security benefits by three-quarters, eliminating Medicare, or something equivalently drastic. How is McCain proposing to pay for more years of war in Iraq?
Posted by: mebee | May 15, 2008 12:38:37 PM
Grandpa Simpson time to take your medicine.
Posted by: eric | May 15, 2008 12:38:43 PM
Like I'm not going to believe this guy. Bush made such promises and kept backtracking out of them. Who is McCain trying to fool with his Iraqi policy? It's the same as Bush's anyway!
Posted by: GWP, Franklin Boro, NJ | May 15, 2008 12:42:27 PM
The liberal media is the problem. They take something like McCain's "100 year war" reference completely out of context just to make themselves feel better about themselves. They attack even the slightest Republican or conservative remark and blow it out of proportion, yet when a governor uses state taxes to obtain a call girl the media fails to mention his affiliation as a Democrat. The same thing happened with McGreivy in New Jersey and the media only skims over the Deomocratic problems. They use no sense at all and liberal bias is strewn throughout the media
Posted by: AAA | May 15, 2008 12:42:45 PM
I've always believed McCain will say anything to get elected. From 100 yrs to 2013. Talk about a flip-flopper! When have we ever kept a commitment for any date regarding this conflict?
Posted by: rolando | May 15, 2008 12:44:56 PM
is this old ass out dated fool for real. well i guess can get ise to saying president OBAMA. he is saying thing that should have been done 5 years ago. all republicans do is LIE. i voted for you guys once but never ever again . stop the lying
Posted by: jmccoy2369 | May 15, 2008 12:46:04 PM
Senator McCain also promises to stick with the Bush tax cuts that will continue to drive us into debt and require more borrowing from China, Japan and the rest of the world. The war has produced little real return and we are diverting taxpayer dollars from our infrastructure and domestic investments that strengthen our economy. That's a wonderful plan to continuing our economic downward spiral.
Posted by: 63tango | May 15, 2008 12:46:29 PM
Can't you just see the big "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" banner flying high. We do NOT need another 4 years of bush policies. Obama 2008!!!
Posted by: pt | May 15, 2008 12:46:48 PM
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