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The war in Iraq will be a major campaign issue this fall, so John McCain decided to spend part of his time waiting to see who his Democratic challenger will be by traveling to the war-torn country. McCain visited Iraq over the weekend, meeting with Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh. He was also scheduled to get together with Gen. David Petraeus. McCain, who is traveling with Sens. Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham, will head next to Israel, France, and Great Britain, where he’ll have his first meeting with Prime Minister Gordon Brown. He also is expected to meet with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
In an odd scheduling quirk, Vice President Dick Cheney was also in Iraq, but it didn’t appear that the two crossed paths.
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Gloomy conservatives
McCain was combative toward reporters’ questions in the heavily guarded Green Zone, and responded testily to a question about his comment that it was safe to walk some Baghdad streets. He later acknowledged traveling with armed U.S. military escorts.
Uh huh. But the president of Iran visits and he’s treated like a hero with cheering throngs. The president of Iran drives around to places McCain is scared to go. Uh, why are we there again and why does McCain want to be there for the next hundred years? Please don’t tell me it’s to bleed us dry. That would be so depressing.
On a lighter note, Obama released all of his tax returns and published his senate earmarks. Two things that both McCain and Hillary refused to do. Things that make you go, hmmmm.
Rod Parsley anyone? Watch this for a real hoot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFr59VC50tY&feature=related
Tell me that Rod Parsley, the “spiritual advisor” to Sen. McCain isn’t tearing up a Bible, chapter by chapter, in front of his congregation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQO4wmmSrFg&feature=related
I read recently that a now aged restarateur in Havana was in Hanoi in 1970 and got to do an interview with McCain. The reporter had been born in Spain but not lived there most of his life. McCain was not fooled. He recognized the man as a commie propagandist.
So in this obscure Cuban restaurant adorned with pix of Che ane Fidel there is a picture of McCain a the time of his “interview” by the writer from Granma, the Cuban official newspaper.
Mahmoud Amedinejad (whatever spelling) is popular in Iraq? That’s disturbing, though I shouldn’t be surprised. I don’t think McCain meant that he wanted to be there for 100 years. I think anyone who gets that out of his statement is already biased against him. Which you have a right to be, don’t get me wrong.
#4: I don’t think McCain meant that he wanted to be there for 100 years
Here, you can hear him say it at a town hall meeting from Jan 2008. Let us know if you think he “meant” it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf7HYoh9YMM
McCain plans to keep permanent bases in Iraq, similar to Germany, Japan, Korea, etc. He doesn’t plan on keeping a full military contingent of 150,000 there for 100 years but it won’t be easy to keep a military base there once we begin withdrawing.
Iraqis don’t like us.
You know. If we went into Burma and removed the military dictatorship that oppresses the people we might well be seen as liberators. Why Iraq and not Burma? Burma is a Buddhist nation. They would likely welcome us. Burma has gems and gold as well so they are rich in natural resources. Maybe not oil though.
North Korea is brainwashed into loving their leader despite his horrible record. Liberating N. Korea might be doomed to failure.
McCain is lucky to have won the Republican nomination so easily. If the Republicans had rules similar to the democrats, they would likely still be tied up.
Interestingly, McCain wasn’t able to visit the market he visited the last time he was in Iraq. He was told it was too unsafe, even with an armed escort this time. Remember that market? The one McCain told us was “perfectly safe”. Then we found out later he was surrounded by the military while walking through the market.
If you want the USA occupying Iraq in perpetuity vote for McCain. Bush says that McCain will continue the job he started in Iraq.
Considering McCain said he doesn’t really know anything about the economy, I certainly believe he would keep up the same standard that Bush as demonstrated in absolutley everything he has done.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqsH7dkFGTo
#6: Iraqis don’t like us.
Probaly because the majority of Americans are Christian and Iraq, with the support of George Bush, put Islam into it’s contitution as the national religion thereby making it a fundamentalist Islamic country.
The best thing we can do is declare “mission accomplished” and leave.
I wouldn’t want our boys and girls in Iraq when they discover that less than 1% of those killed since we invaded were al Queada.
By “they”, I mean the Iraqis.