(Image by Fubar at Needlenose.)Crooks and Liars:
And with a total suspension of disbelief. In a speech that was more hypothetical thought exercise than policy address, McCain did his best John Lennon impersonation and asked Americans to “imagine all the people” (or at least most of them) back from Iraq by the end of his first term:
“By January 2013, America has welcomed home most of the servicemen and women who have sacrificed terribly so that America might be secure in her freedom. The Iraq War has been won. Iraq is a functioning democracy, although still suffering from the lingering effects of decades of tyranny and centuries of sectarian tension. Violence still occurs, but it is spasmodic and much reduced. Civil war has been prevented; militias disbanded; the Iraqi Security Force is professional and competent; al Qaeda in Iraq has been defeated; and the Government of Iraq is capable of imposing its authority in every province of Iraq and defending the integrity of its borders. The United States maintains a military presence there, but a much smaller one, and it does not play a direct combat role.”
While McCain’s prognostication of peace, love and harmony in Iraq just 10 years after the U.S. invasion is a happy one, it should be viewed as nothing more as a charade that substitutes wishful thinking for serious policy. After all, as he has proved time and time again, John McCain’s Iraq crystal ball is broken.
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Now this is the second Republican who said the so called War aka Invasion would be over. Bush said Mission Accomplished and now McCain says by his first term as President. How many more soldier will be dead in the next four years of stealing Iraq oil? McCain changes his stories daily and now we are to believe this bull. The man doesn't even know who the troops are fighting and he wants Americans to shop in Bagdad where bombs are going off. McCain will have to follow the orders of big business and Dick Cheney if elected. He has no idea what is going on unless Lieberman tells him. As he did his world tour the World Leaders got a good laugh and realized they might see another Bush for four more years. By then the US would be in it's second Great Depression, with no FDR to get us out.
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