McCain Speaks at CPAC (Full Text)

Human Events ^ | 7 February 2008 | John McCain

[Wuli]

“His choice of running mate will probably be my deciding factor.”

you think he’ll retreat on amnesty and continuation of the north american union project because of who he picks for vp?????? delusional

[Wuli]

“When we went into Iraq, we should have disposed of Saddam and left,”

and just who would be running all over the place now, if we had??????

[dforest]

If we leave in 10 years, just who will be running all over the place?

[Wuli]

i am not arguing against your general argument, i support it, but, as to:

“You know as well as I do, that female children are going to school in Iraq for the first time in a generation.” and There are women in the government for the first time.”

those statements are true of afghanistan not iraq; even under Saddam girls could get an education and women worked in and led govt ministries

[Wuli]

“If we leave in 10 years, just who will be running all over the place?”

when did we leave germany or korea???

as long as the mullahs are in charge in iran, we will have some military units of some type in iraq; fewer direct combat and mostly only support, intel an spec ops

[DoughtyOne]

I’m no expert on the subject without in country experience, but I have seen perhaps ten reports on young girls heading off to school for the first time in their lives, after Hussein was thrown out of office. They weren’t your typical 6-8 year old children either.

It seems like I recall reports on women now being able to hold public office for the first time also. Perhaps it is now the case they can hold higher offices.

I’m just referencing what I’ve seen reported.

[dforest]

50 years from now, who is gonna be running all over the place.

We are still in Germany and they are filling their country with muslims.

Are we supposed to fight them there for the Germans too?

[Wuli]

if you can you should get back to and let the senders of those sources know they were wrong

many iraqi children among its poorest citizens, particularly after the first gulf war, did not attend school after that time due their poverty and due to saddam building palaces and buying weapons instead of rebuilding war-damaged infrastructure (maybe someone considered from 1990 to 2004/5/6 a generation); but there was no general restriction on girls education and among the well-connected and well-off girls could go all the way through to graduate degrees

like i said, women served in the baathist goverment in iraq in many govt ministries - and why not, their (baathist) philosophical tendencies were more marxist/fascist than anything else - not religious

[hunter112]

John McCain could have said something sincere like, “I was wrong about some things."

Of all the similarities between McPain and the Beest, this is probably the clearest one. They're never wrong, just the people who disagree with them are.

[DoughtyOne]

Well I appreciate your first hand report.

Thank you.

[DoughtyOne]

Well I appreciate your first hand report.

Thank you.

BTW, hope things are going well for you.

[G.Love]

you think he?ll retreat on amnesty and continuation of the north american union project because of who he picks for vp?????? Delusional

Uh, no, I don't recall saying anything of the sort. Insults aren't necessary, thanks.

[Wuli]

“50 years from now, who is gonna be running all over the place.”

let me know what hypothetical number of years your argument makes sense, regardless of any hypothetical circumstances at the time

- our assistance is based on mutual agreement on fulfilling joint security concerns, not on artificial rules that ignore whether or not those mutual concerns still exist

it is conditions involving mutual agreement, mutual concern and mutual interests for which korea and germany still appreciate the military component of our friendship; were that not the case, we would no longer be there; so it will be with iraq

as with korea, so with iraq, the question is not when will we leave - as if we can predict when the threats that have us there will end, but when will our joint security concerns produce joint agreement that those concerns no longer require our presence there;

i am sure that in both cases, in both countries, whenever the level of our assistance - with regard to our joint security concerns at that time - that we jointly agree is needed - can be met without our immediate presence, then we won’t have any military presence in either country

the realistic, non-artificial, non-hypothetical questions that determine whether we stay or go, in both cases has to do with the possible end of the joint security concerns

so, why don’t you tell us what year north korea will no longer be a security concern to the mutual interests of the us and south korea, and what year will iran no longer be of mutual security concern to the us and iraq

oh, you can’t tell us when that will be, can you

there’s your answer