Post #164

Subject: War Is Over! We Won!!

We Won!! War Is Over! There’ll be dancing, dancing in the streets. Newborn babies will be named “W.”

George W. Bush is a supergenius – he had the courage to surge when EVRYBODY told him not too. And the surge has worked, fulfilling its original promise of providing breathing room for the Iraqi government to get its act together.

Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Monday that his country wants some type of timetable for a withdrawal of American troops included in the deal the two countries are negotiating. It was the first time that he has explicitly and publicly called for a withdrawal timetable.

In Washington, the State Department declined to comment on the ongoing negotiations and said officials in Washington were not yet entirely sure what al-Maliki had said. "This falls in the category of ongoing negotiations, and I'm not going to talk about every single development, every single development in the negotiations," spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters.

Maliki offered no details. But his national security adviser, Mouwaffak al-Rubaie, told The Associated Press the next day “We will not accept any memorandum of understanding that doesn’t have specific dates to withdraw foreign forces from Iraq.”

What does John W. McCain think?

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JOHN W. MCCAIN: It’s obvious that we would have to leave because -- if it was an elected government of Iraq, and we’ve been asked to leave other places in the world. If it were an extremist government, then I think we would have other challenges, but I don’t see how we could stay when our whole emphasis and policies are based on turning the Iraqi government over to the Iraqi people.

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Whoops – wrong tape [blush] – that was McCain from 2004. Tuesday morning on MSNBC, McCain was asked about Maliki’s demand that the U.S., at least, make plans to go home.

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MCCAIN: The Iraqis have made it very clear including meetings I had with the president and foreign minister of Iraq that it’s based on conditions on the ground. That’s what I’ve always said. I’ve always said we’ll come home with honor and with victory and not through a set timetable.

The same media outlets, by the way, were saying two weeks ago that Maliki said there would be no Status of Forces Agreement. But he is a politician; he is a leader of a country that’s finally coming together. There is no reason to assume that the Iraqis aren’t going to act in what they perceive as their national interests.

I believe we’ll act in ours.

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There it is, peeps – our commitment to democracy is a sham. McCain has flip-flopped, moved the goalposts, snatched defeat from the jaws of Victory. Instead of Bush and McCain admitting their War was wrong, they’d rather set America on the course for a s-l-o-w suicide. What patriots.

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BARACK OBAMA: So when I hear John McCain saying, ‘We can’t surrender, we can’t wave the white flag’ nobody’s talking about surrender. We’re talking about common sense. We cannot be there forever.

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OBAMA: We can’t be there for 50 years. We can’t afford it. Our military families can’t bear that burden. We’ve got to get more troops into Afghanistan. I am going to bring this war to an end.

So, don’t be confused. I will bring the Iraq war to a close when I’m president of the United States of America.

(APPLAUSE)

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