Foes target McCain's 100-year war remark

[DeepModem Mom]

Boston Globe: Foes target McCain's 100-year war remark
Republican says rivals twist Iraq comment
By Brian C. Mooney
Globe Staff / April 2, 2008

Almost daily, Democrats hammer John McCain for supporting a 100-year war in Iraq, putting their spin on McCain's answer months ago to a voter in New Hampshire to draw the starkest distinction possible on one of the defining issues of this year's presidential election.

The presumptive Republican nominee says that his Democratic rivals are distorting his views. He explains that he never favored such a long war, but rather envisioned an open-ended military presence of peacekeepers, similar to US military commitments in Korea and Bosnia and even Japan and Germany. But some academic and political analysts say McCain's argument fails to distinguish between other US occupations and an extended presence in a disputed, volatile flashpoint.

One historian who opposes the war said yesterday that the Arizona senator's analogy has no true precedent in those earlier conflicts. "Were the US to succeed militarily in Iraq, yes, US forces will remain in Iraq for decades to come," said Andrew J. Bacevich, a Boston University professor of international relations and US history and retired Army colonel whose son, an Army soldier, was killed last year by a suicide bomb there. "My difference with McCain is I don't think we will prevail militarily in Iraq."

McCain's 100-year remark, initially made Jan. 3 at a town hall-style meeting in Derry before the New Hampshire primary, has taken on a life of its own. Several videos of it on YouTube are circulating among antiwar and Democratic groups....

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/04/02/foes_target_mccains_100_year_war_remark/?page=full

[Virginia Dare]

1. The fact that he sees ANY similarities whatsoever between Iraq..

and any of these countries mentioned proves that he is FUCKING CLUELESS.

Will the press call him on it? Of course not, they will continue to portray "liberal Democrats" as being disingenuous by continually bringing this BEYOND IGNORANT point up.

Poor Johnny McCain, always the hero, always the victim....:cry:

[islandmkl]

2. "bomb, bomb, bomb Iran.." should play really nice this fall, too....

i can't wait..

[yurbud]

3. MY artistic focus on it: an update of ''I WANT YOU'' with Grandpa McCain & 100 Year War