McCain: ‘Anyone Who Worries About How Long We’re In Iraq Does Not Understand The Military’

[Hissyspit]

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/12/mccain-understand-military

McCain: ‘Anyone Who Worries About How Long We’re In Iraq Does Not Understand The Military’

Speaking to reporters in Richmond, VA last night, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) attacked “anyone” who points out that he is “fine” with keeping U.S. troops in Iraq for 100 or more years. “Anyone who worries about how long we’re in Iraq does not understand the military and does not understand war,” said McCain.

He then added that it is “really almost insulting to one’s intelligence” to question “how long we’re in Iraq” because he believes the current “strategy” is “succeeding.” Watch it:

VIDEO AT LINK

[Parche]

1. This is NOT a WAR Senator

It was an illegal invasion..........period....end of discussion...........:grr: :grr:
:hi:

[atreides1]

2. What the Hell Does he Know of War

He spent more time as a POW then he did flying combat missions!!!!!

I'm a Desert Storm Vet, and McCain can go Cheney himself for all I care.

[Solly Mack]

3. piffle

[TwilightGardener]

4. How dare we question where, when, how, and why our children's blood is spilled

and our tax dollars are spent? Fuck off, you fucking old fossil.

[Lex]

17. exactly right

Mccain is the epitome of "hey you kids get off my lawn!"

But scarier.

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. At his age he won't have long to understand it anyway

[Wizard777]

6. We understand bankruptcy, inflation, recession, and depression.

How does Mc Cain plan to pay for this Trotsky prepetual revolution? Obviously our forefathers didn't understand war either. They only allowed Congress to fund war for no more than two years. Not all of eternity. I don't think that Mc Cain understands the real damage that a 100 year war can do to a society. Entire generation that know no other way of life than war. Politicians have this funny speech impediment. No matter how hard they try to say, I can't possibly understand this. It always comes out as, YOU can't possibly understand this.

[Beausoleil]

7. FLASH: McCain insults the intelligence of Americans! n/t

[Supersedeas]

8. anyone who worries about the costs of staying in Iraq does not understand the nature of Empirialism

(at any cost)

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

9. translation

?Anyone who worries about how long we?re in Iraq does not understand
the military (industrial complex) and does not understand war (profiteering),? said McCain.

[Dukkha]

10. McCain is really insulting to one’s intelligence

A 12 year old at a game of Stratego is a better military analyst than that old gas bag.

[Javaman]

11. It's quite apparent, that mclame has never read, "the art of war".

mclame and his perpetual wargasm.

[salin]

12. er ... did he just insult more than 2/3 of Americans?

Who question our being in Iraq currently, let alone for the next 100 years?

Ya, that will work well for him :eyes:

[Jeffersons Ghost]

13. Anyone Who DOESN'T Worry About How Long We’re In Iraq Does Not Understand...

the cost in lives or money

[tabasco]

14. Put McCain in the infantry for awhile.

I see too many of these fly-boys who think they know what combat is from dropping bombs from 30,000 feet.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

15. We understand war. "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." Isaac Asimov

[indepat]

16. McCain has again shown he is clueless and therefore unfit, not up to the task,

of being president.

[Historic NY]

18. Its easy for a champagne fly boy to say that he never was a.....

ground pounder. Mr. McCain its insulting to the American people and to the families of our troops to even say your fine with keeping troops there. How many more will you let die for the lie? John tell me how many? The Army is broken now and all you offer are more tours. Go to Hell, you self serving bastard.

[lumpy]

19. We just cannot afford to have another fool in the White House.

McCain uses the non-argument that we have troops in other coutries, some for a long period of time. We have those troops in other countries, countries that are not in political/civil upheaval.
I doubt that he really does believe that the current "strategy is succeeding" no moreso that he really believed that the war in Iraq would be a "day at the beach". His strategy regarding Iraq would be to continue bumbling along forever, if necessary, until Iraq is completely exhausted of any ability to become a vibrant nation.

[KharmaTrain]

20. He's Stuck In A Circle Jerk...

Even if McCain knows the reality, there's no way he can speak it...he's dug himself too far and too deep now.

The hair-splitting about how we're "winning" militarily belies the fact of what war is about in the first place and why there is a need for a military...when civil and social order breaks down and the political system is disfunctional. As long as those problems remain, the military must remain which means the whole mission is a failure. But McCain is stuck with the chickenhawks...the 60% of the 25% dead-enders who vote in the GOOP primaries and still refuse to admit Iraq has been a disaster.

For a while McCain tried to blame Rummy and "strategy" for the failures, but now he's all but ready to order Petreus a 5th star. In his calculated pandering, McCain is stuck in defending the war as some conveluted concept of looking "strong" on the military stuck on the fucked-up notion that military "success" can be measured apart of the rest...just like how many Vietnam historians parse how the military won Tet and defeated the NVA and VC, but its little consolation when, in the end, you lose the war.

What's amusing this year is we're seeing Repugnicans sticking themselevs in the boxes they usually reserve for Democrats. In their zeal to pander, we've been given soundbites and contradictions that will make McCain a very weak candidate. Even worse is his "100 Years" line is short, bumper-stickable and is already planting in people's minds.

[LiberalFighter]

21. Anyone who doesn't worry about McCain mental stability must also be unstable.