uh, yeah.
mystical. right.
“It’s not a timetable; it’s victory. It’s victory, which I have always predicted. I didn’t know when we were going to win World War II; I just knew we were going to win,” McCain said.
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I’m sorry folks, I know politicians like to run their chops, especially when they need to grab the spotlight, but if Maliki can not clean house in another year or two as his forces build-up and take the fight to insurgents even more so than to date, this is just so much,, well, you know..
We all want to “win” and as soon as possible, well, except for those across the aisle and on the left, they still long for a defeat... but we all know, it is an election year after all, they need to act tough.
Oh, I am going to get so slammed for saying this, but how many times have we heard Bush say essentially the same thing? "Soon, soon, soon..."
I just don't think we can expect Iraq to have a government that can function on its own in the foreseeable future.
McCain is already kicking the can to the Next Guy.
The Iraq war was won a long time ago. We’re now fighting Iran and Al Qaeda in the place where they need to be fought - over there.
Won’t that be about a year late?
As far as the Dems are concerned, it may as well be 100 years. And if they want to talk mystics, it may end in 2012 if the Mayan calendar is right.
McCain assumes he’s going to be the next president-elect in the Fall, but the way he’s directing the Republican party today, it’s becoming less and less of a certainty that he will be the president-elect in November because no matter what, he seems to grate on the minds of Conservatives everywhere.
As it is, it's Nation Building and we've never had very good success at that.
Third party. Definitely.
He was wrong about Kosovo. He wanted ground troops, remember?
March 25, 1999
‘’These bombs are not going to do the job,’’ said Senator John McCain of Arizona, a Republican who was a naval pilot in the Vietnam War. ‘’It’s almost pathetic. You’re just going to solidify the determination of the Serbs to resist a peace agreement.
‘’You’d have to drop the bridges and turn off the lights in Belgrade to have even a remote chance of changing Milosevic’s mind,’’ he said. ‘’What you’ll get is all the old Vietnam stuff, bombing pauses, escalation, negotiations, trouble.’’
Mr. McCain, who is expected to announce his candidacy for President next month, said the Administration was caught with unpalatable alternatives — bombing, which he said ‘’has never worked without ground forces,’’ and the use of ground forces, which he said had little support on Capitol Hill or in the nation as a whole.
‘’Many Republicans have criticized the Democrat president for a failure of resolve over the Kosovo crisis and in other earlier foreign policy crises like Bosnia and Iraq.Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who spent more than five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, insists the United States should be preparing its troops for a ground war in case that option became necessary.McCain was one of a number of members of Congress travelling to Brussels and Aviano, Italy with Defense Secretary William Cohen in the next three days to meet top NATO leaders and visit U.S. forces involved in the operations.
http://www.alb-net.com/kcc/index24-1.htm
McLame’s global warming comments have made me decide to leave the Presidental ballot blank, or vote for Ron Paul. Gad, did I just say that....?
He should have boasted of flying cars that drive themselves, computer chip implants to add memory to the human brain, a cure for cancer, and a new food supply: soilent green. All by 2013!!!
I want a Republican primary do-over-——the guy is nuts, illustrating that the commies really are good at washing brains.
A Politician making a Military prediction? Yeesh.
“McCain believes Iraq war can be won by 2013”
Doubtful. That would leave the Repubes with absolutely NOTHING to run on in that years’ elections.
We have already been in Iraq longer then we spent fighting WWII, the country does not have the same resolve for IRAQ as it did for WWII and the and predictably the results will be similar to previous conflicts we did not have the resolve for.
The way I see it is the sooner we cut our loses the sooner we cut our loses.
McCain just put the seal on his election loss.