McCain: I Know What Iraqis Want

[sabra]

http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/07/mccain_i_know_what_iraqis_want.php

Meredith Viera asks John McCain about the fact that the Iraqi government keeps praising his opponent's vision of forward-looking Iraq policy. McCain retorts:

I have been there too many times. I've met too many times with him, and I know what they want. They want it based on conditions and of course they would like to have us out, that's what happens when you win wars, you leave. We may have a residual presence there as even Senator Obama has admitted. But the fact is that it should be -- the agreement between Prime Minister Maliki, the Iraqi government and the United states is it will be based on conditions. This is a great success, but it's fragile, and could be reversed very easily. I think we should trust the word of General Petraeus who has orchestrated this dramatic turnaround.

[TwilightGardener]

1. That's such a weird, smug, arrogant statement. No, you fucking DON'T, jackass.

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. This entire war has been about Republicon hubris

[YOY]

2. I would say not having living in a warzone is what most of them want.

But I haven't talked to any cherry picked Iraqis...

[ErinBerin84]

3. sometimes it seems like McCain is the foreign language speaker,

bc his English always sounds really fucked up.

[Hav]

4. .

Lol, and I thought this ad here was supposed to be a joke...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x159538#159605

[kentuck]

5. I think most of the polls in Iraq show that McCain is not favored..

They think he is too much like George W Bush. Go figure.

[grytpype]

6. The more he talks about Iraq, the better.

[mrs_p]

7. like he knows latinos?

[DFW]

9. McCain has been reading too much James Joyce

And he just does NOT have this "stream-of-consciousness" thing down
yet. He should stick to "my friends." It's easier.

And what's with this "What Iraqis Want" routine? Even Mel Gibson
didn't bother with a sequel to "What Women Want." Why does McCan't
think he knows anything more?