tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3060534295892170518.post5801078729547288679..comments2024-02-06T18:46:04.220+10:00Comments on Real World Libertarian: Hilary Obama, Its still on.Jim Fryarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15780237902858889143noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3060534295892170518.post-53222246756645479092008-05-08T13:38:00.000+10:002008-05-08T13:38:00.000+10:00The statement as reported by CNN was as follows: -...The statement as reported <A HREF="http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/14/mccain.king/" REL="nofollow">by CNN</A> was as follows: -<BR/><BR/><EM>Last month, at a town hall meeting in New Hampshire, a crowd member asked McCain about a Bush statement that troops could stay in Iraq for 50 years.<BR/><BR/>"Maybe 100," McCain replied. "As long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed, it's fine with me and I hope it would be fine with you if we maintain a presence in a very volatile part of the world where al Qaeda is training, recruiting, equipping and motivating people every single day."</EM><BR/><BR/>Hilary, Obama, and Dean et al are deliberately promoting the dishonest line which they have made up, and I reiterate that, they have made up, that McCain wants a 100 year war.<BR/><BR/>There is a significant difference between a military presence and a war. The proviso; <EM>"As long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed,"</EM> clearly indicates that he doesn't want a 100 year war and Dean knows that yet keeps repeating it.<BR/><BR/>I would much prefer that an Iraqui government which respected the rights of all people and had the support of the people was put in place and we were all able to get the troops out.Jim Fryarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15780237902858889143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3060534295892170518.post-34401174885882603332008-05-08T09:39:00.000+10:002008-05-08T09:39:00.000+10:00Jim- love your writing, but I think you are missin...Jim- love your writing, but I think you are missing the point- all of our libertarian candidates heard John McCain make the 100 year statement and policy about Iraq too. Ron Paul almost broke a blood vessel on that one. As bad as the democrats can be, McCain is going off the deep end, I wish you could be here and see it for yourself, it is like nothing we have ever experienced in the states. I asked the older folks and they tell me that nothing in their memory has been like this campaign season. Here is a quote from life-long, I am talking Ike era, republican, “We have never had anyone who is so astoundingly horrible.” <BR/><BR/>The Libertarians, as you know, do not even get a place at the table to debate. <BR/><BR/>There was a quote on his campaign website that caught my interest, "We have not had enough American casualties in Iraq. We need a policy that keeps us fully engaged with enemy...." <BR/><BR/>I think his neoconservative contingent have lost their minds.Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06556693043870733177noreply@blogger.com