McCain On The Troops Coming Home From Iraq: “Not Too Important”
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 12th, 2008 4:36 am by HL
McCain On The Troops Coming Home From Iraq: “Not Too Important”
McSame is getting absolutely hammered today for his comments this morning on Good Morning Lauer. LAUER: “If it’s [the surge] working, Senator, do you now have a better estimate of when American forces can come home from Iraq?” McCAIN: “No, but that’s not too important. What’s important is the casualties in Iraq. Americans are in South Korea, Americans are in Japan, American troops are in Germany.
McSame is getting absolutely hammered today for his comments about Iraq on Good Morning Lauer.
LAUER: “If it’s [the surge] working, Senator, do you now have a better estimate of when American forces can come home from Iraq?”
McCAIN: “No, but that’s not too important. What’s important is the casualties in Iraq. Americans are in South Korea, Americans are in Japan, American troops are in Germany. That’s all fine.“
What’s noteworthy here is that this is pretty much word-for-word what he said in his now famous 100-years-in-Iraq pledge, even down to the word, “fine.”
Q: “President Bush has talked about our staying in Iraq for 50 years…”
McCain: “Make it a hundred.”
Q: “Is that …” (cut off)
McCain: “We’ve been in South Korea … we’ve been in Japan for 60 years. We’ve been in South Korea 50 years or so. That would be fine with me. As long as Americans …as long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed. That’s fine with me, I hope that would be fine with you…”
Make no mistake — this is not some gaffe or Macaca moment. It’s quite clear that McSame, like Bush, wants to occupy Iraq forever. And Americans will have a clear choice in November between indefinite occupation and getting out as quickly as possible.
The problem for the McCain campaign is that he keeps stumbling into clear statements of his actual policy, which is close to lethal since the vast majority of Americans disagree with his policy and Iraq is virtually the only thing he’s running on.
Oh well.
