McCain quote on American troops in Iraq

Davanita

i don't know if something similar has been discussed here before, but i just read this on wikipedia and i'm so pissed off i just have to post it:

When a questioner said, "President Bush has talked about our staying in Iraq for 50 years." McCain responded, "Make it a hundred. We've been in Japan for 60 years, we've been in South Korea for 50 years or so. That'd be fine with me as long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed. That's fine with me.

you think it's possible that for a second he just kinda forgot that the current death toll on American troops in Iraq is 2.761...? :rolleyes: (Dutch source, one month old)

how that man can peacefully sleep at night is beyond me.

Vedderlution_Baby

Davanita wrote:

i don't know if something similar has been discussed here before, but i just read this on wikipedia and i'm so pissed off i just have to post it:

When a questioner said, "President Bush has talked about our staying in Iraq for 50 years." McCain responded, "Make it a hundred. We've been in Japan for 60 years, we've been in South Korea for 50 years or so. That'd be fine with me as long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed. That's fine with me.

you think it's possible that for a second he just kinda forgot that the current death toll on American troops in Iraq is 2.761...? :rolleyes: (Dutch source, one month old)

how that man can peacefully sleep at night is beyond me.

http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/

That site has a more current figure on US deaths in Iraq.

I'm pretty sure it's been discussed here or atleast mentioned

Davanita

Vedderlution_Baby! wrote:

http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/

That site has a more current figure on US deaths in Iraq.

I'm pretty sure it's been discussed here or atleast mentioned

thanks... couldn't really find a good source...

so it's even more!! jesus... :(

Vedderlution_Baby

Davanita wrote:

thanks... couldn't really find a good source...

so it's even more!! jesus... :(

Yea, compared to something like Nam it's nothing really. But compared to something that was supposedly a cake walk where we were going to be greeted with open arms, it's a hell of a lot of dead soldiers. And that's just the soldiers. We won't get into the Iraqi population.

sponger

That's a partial quote from mccain. His entire statement regarding 50 to 100 years also mentioned preventing genocide in iraq and controlling al qaeda recruitment.

Both of those statements are not far off the mark. People seem to be so worried about all of these dead civilian iraqis, but the truth is they are the ones who are killing each other, and if history repeats itself, then a multitude more will die once the US pulls out. Yes, that's right, with the current situation, the US presence is actually saving Iraqi lives.

On top of that, there will be nothing preventing the creation of al qaeda training camps like the ones in Afghanistan that trained the 9/11 hi-jackers.

In fact, it was the absence of a central authority that led to taliban's and the al qaeda's presence in Afghanistan.

Whether or not those are justifications for occupation is debatable. But, if they were truly ludicrous statements that make McCain look like a blood-thirsty war-mongerer, then why weren't they posted along with the quote with which they were originally included?

The answer to that is that the left has its propagandist agenda just as much as the right.