Republicans back new withdrawal timetable [McCain "one of the chief cheerleaders"] [WOT] [Iraq]

Financial Times ^ | 2009-02-27

[rabscuttle385]

[Tarpon]

WE WON ... what’s left to do for combat troops.

50,000 uniform personnel to remain in Iraq until ....

[rabscuttle385]

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[WayneS]

What’s the big deal?

Obams’s “plan” is more or less what was going to end up happening any way.

[LZ_Bayonet]

The Iraq War is won, from this point on it can only be lost.

[Retired Greyhound]

If the generals are cool with it, so am I.

[this is my country]

WE WON ... what’s left to do for combat troops.

Funny, how I can't recall the Usurper in Chief using the phrase We Won when talking about Iraq.

[Cedric]

The “big deal” is rabscuttle’s unhealthy McCain fetish.

It knows no bounds or reason.

[WayneS]

Don’t get me wrong, I despise the rabid-RINO, John McInsane as much as the next guy.

I’d just rather, in this particular instance, we (loudly and rudely) point out to the Obamites, at every opportunity, the simply AMAZING similarities between this, the latest “Obama Plan” and McCain’s “plan”, and even Bush’s “plan”, for reducing our troop numbers in Iraq.

[Cedric]

McCain just isn't worth all the attention.

He's a RINO. He lost the election.

Currently, he's irrelevant.

And it's strategically foolhardy to continually attack the old geezer to the exclusion of the real enemy; Obama.

[WayneS]

I intend to keep attacking him until he is no longer in office.

I have a lot of anger to go around and I can certainly spare a bit of it for the “Songbird”.

[wolfcreek]

“Currently, he's irrelevant.”

Apparently NOT! He gets the headlines. He seems to speak for Republicans (according to MSM) And he gone back to being the same asswipe Maverick we all knew he was before the PTB nominated him.

We need to run him into retirement before he does any more damage.

[WayneS]

Yep.

[rabscuttle385]

“Currently, he's irrelevant.”

McCain is as irrelevant as Snowe, Collins, and Specter.

Two reasons: one, as wolfcreek pointed out, he grabs the headlines and is used as a front by the mainstream media as representative of Republicans, and more generally, conservatives, in much the same way as Lindsey Graham and other RINOs are used; and two, he is still a U.S. Senator. Just because he voted against Porkulus Maximus does not imply that he will always act in a conservative manner.

Dismissing him as "irrelevant" is like saying that Snowe, Specter, Collins, and the other RINOs are "irrelevant." They are "irrelevant" until the mainstream media uses them to destroy the public image and brand of conservatism and until the leftists dupe them into turning on conservatives vis-a-vis amnesty, climate change, Big Government fascism, and "bipartisanship," among other things. Otherwise, your implicit suggestion that we ought to ignore the RINOs in our midst is naught more than plain foolhardiness and stupidity.

[WayneS]

Well put. Thank you.

[rabscuttle385]

The “big deal” is rabscuttle’s unhealthy McCain fetish. It knows no bounds or reason.

Please ping me if you're going to talk trash about me.

[WayneS]

You’ll get no trash from me, brother!

[rabscuttle385]

You’ll get no trash from me, brother!

Thank you :)

Likewise.

[mono]

Exactly. The Bush administration signed an almost identical plan with the Iraqi government last year. Nothing really new here.

[Cedric]

I understand.

But the old geezer is irrelevant, politically.

Let it go.

Take him out in the primary.

Focus on Obama.