Posted on 02/22/2005 6:50:55 AM PST by areafiftyone
Yeah, talk about a softball pitch for a little publicity!
Newsflash senators: permanent bases were already a given.
I bet you dollars to donuts that all three are running in 2008. Lindsey Graham has been chomping at the bit to run for president and will keep his cushy job as Senator - so will Hillary and McCain.
And we have McCain giving credence to the notion that we want to have a permanent occupying force in the Middle East. The loose cannon on the rolling deck. McCain truly does wear thin very quickly.
I think McCain better stick to his other calling 'speech god'.
McCain also proposed that when our tanks run out of gas, we should put more gas in them. Thank you Captain Obvious.
How many people did Mc'Cain knock down getting to the microphone and camera's?
What in the world is Hillary doing on the Armed Forces committee? She has no use for people in uniform and proved it when she was taking up space in the white house.
LOL!
Right!
At least, we know McCain supports, in this case, what is right. We can have permanent bases in both the recently freed countries, and not be an occupying power. It is ridicules for one to think that because the USA funds and uses a base in a county amount to occupation.
We've had such bases in a number of countries and not "occupied" these countries. Usually, the base country benefits economically and are more secure when we have such bases. With time, when the region is pacified, we move on.
The U.S.A. needs bases in these fledging democracies - and they need us - aircraft carriers in the region is not enough.
It would be nice to have a base in Afghanistan to raid the surrounding countries that have dictatorship or terrorist supporting government, but will the people of Afghanistan accept this?
Can McCain spell ME oil?????
As soon as she became Senator that was the first committee she looked to get on. This woman is not stupid. If she is on the armed services committee it looks good for her run for President (at least in the idiot Dems's eyes)
As soon as she became Senator that was the first committee she looked to get on. This woman is not stupid. If she is on the armed services committee it looks good for her run for President (at least in the idiot Dems's eyes)
Sorry about the triple post everyone!
My bet is a McCain and Clinton ticket in 2008 although it's hard to say who will lead the ticket. The way they fawned over each other in Iraq leaves little doubt in my mind IMHO.
You are exactly right.
Nah then McCain will have to move to the Democrat Party and then he will lose alot of the moderate Republicans who like him that way. Hillary will never move to the Republican party. She is being advised right now by her Husband to move to the middle. He tried a little to get Kerry to do that but without success but he really didn't care about Kerry. Now his wife is another story. She's his ticket back to the Lincoln Bedroom again!
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