OK, press corps. Prove your integrity.
Four years ago McCain told the Council on Foreign Relations we would have to honor a call for U.S. withdrawal from an elected Iraqi government. McCain is more than flip-flopping on this one.
He's earning a spot on the Olympic diving team.

McCain doesn't have a problem with timetables as long as Maliki and the rest of Iraq doesn't have a problem with a hundred years.

Now that his own advisers have contradicted his promise to eliminate the deficit in four years, here is John Mcain's chance to prove his own people wrong again. Simply tell Maliki that since we have won, we'll have out boys home by Inauguration day, 2009 and can reuce the deficit all the quicker.

I thought we were supposed to be there at the urging of the Iraqi government and not one day more... OOPS!!! Silly me for taking John at his word last week. I'll get back in line now. 100 years of occupation, after all that same strategy has made Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip bastions of peace since 1948. Yup, I'm sure glad McCain and Obama know what they're doing in Iraq now. And finally have an idea of how to "manage the war on terror"... NOT!!! If they attacked us because we're free, why is the government so anxious to take away our freedoms? Maybe al-Quaeda is a CIA front after all.

How thoughtless of me. If we do not withdraw slowly, all those cigarette machines we have parked along the Iranian border will fall into Islamofacist hands. We know the mullah's, who control Iraq, won't let us sell them beer until we get them hooked on something else first. We have to keep the troops there. It's the economy, stupid.

McCain's goal is to have our troops home by 2013, which would be the end of
his first term, and you will see little if any difference between McCain and Obama in that capacity. If people think under either Obama or McCain the US will have no presence (I'm not talking combat) in Iraq for
quite sometime is just naive and going to be very disappointed in Obama if that's your candidate. Obama's own foreign policy advisor's have said that Obama can't be held to promises he made in 2007,2008 when he gets into office.
As Obama recently made clear, and will make clearer no doubt when he gets back from Iraq, he will be listening to Petreaus before he withdraws any troops.
That is no different then McCain. In fact McCain has listened to the troops from day one and risked his Presidential run supporting the surge and unlike Obama was out there attacking this administration and it's handling of this war. He was attacking an administration of his own party referring to Rumsfeld as "the worst Secretary of Defense in US history".
Obama was in the Senate for almost two years and said peep about Iraq until he threw his hat in the ring for President. Obama is right though, his supporters who will not be happy with what he will ultimately do in regards to Iraq have not listened closely to him or done their homework on him. I'm not an Obama supporter but he's certainly taking a smarter position in regards to Iraq.

McCain's problem is that in spite of now being presented with all the evidence, he still thinks the war was a good idea. That's a judgment problem and a foolish consistency that has been the hallmark of George Bush's tenure.

McCain FLIP FLOP coming in 3......2......1...

Mcsame is right! America cannot withdraw her troops from Iraq without getting the benefit of the billions of dollars invested to raid it. We need Iraq's oil badly now that oil is almost $5.00 a gallon here. Maliki has no idea what he is talking about. Oops, sarcasm.

mccain you are such a flip flopping liar you said in an interview in 2004 if iraq goverment wants us to withdraw then we must consider MCCAIN YOU OLD LYING PIECE OF---

McCain is REALLY like Bush's third term. He wants to stay in Iraq for 100 years.

Obama sides with the American people and the Iraqi government. It's time to get the hell out.

The media needs to call out the McCain. 2004 he said that if the Iraqi government wanted us out he would get us out.

So McCain what is it?

obama was right all along on iraq just like hes right on alot of issuses i think some people need to get over his skin color open their eyes and ears and see he just might be a good president give the guy the benifit of the doubt

I agree, if McCain refuses to honor the Iraqis wishes after having stated that we would, he proves he is a liar. How could ANY government ever trust him?

JR
how can we the people trust him we trusted bush and look where that got us just say no to mccain

McCain just wants his 100 year war and won't take no for an answer. What a hypocrite.

http://johnmccainreport.blogspot.com/

Wow!! This is simply amazing! How in the heck can he dig himself out of this hole? How can a presidential candiate of the United States ignore the sentiments of the Iraqi government for troop withdrawl?

"I don't see how we could stay when our whole emphasis and policy has been based on turning the Iraqi government over to the Iraqi people."--John McCain said to the Council of Foreign Relations in 2004.

The media needs to call out John McCain on this one. Once again, another flip-flop.

Betty Obama has done some backtracking on NAFTA, public financing, FISA, gun control, death penalty, Iran , Jerusulem, abortion
and Iraq all within a matter of weeks.
Where have you been? Even some of the pundits are referring to Obama as sounding more like George W, in particular with his faith based initiatives. He will move even more to the center in regards to Iraq when he actually gets back from going to Iraq.
If one were to read up on Obama's experience in the Illinois and US Senate none of these supposed "flip flops" should come as a surprise. Obama is more of a centrist and he pandered to the far left to win the nomination. At least Clinton was a solid liberal who was sounding more like a populist at the end then a right winger. And McCain's 100 yrs comment, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you know the context in which that was said and just chose not to let it go. If you think though that Obama is going to just pull the troops out of Iraq then you are going to be sorely disappointed.

Am glad the Iraqis are making Mccain look really stupid. Everybody even the Iraqis wants us out of Iraq. For Mccain, this is his biggest flip-flop. Mccain is the head of the flip-flop clan.

There is no back-tracking from Obama. The only flip-flop is the public finance issue and we can now see that he was also right. All his opinions are there in his book. The Audacity of Hope.