McCain: “Not Too Important” When Troops Come Home
June 11th, 2008, 1:56 PM EDT
From the Today Show:
Matt Lauer: A lot of people now say the surge is working.
John McCAIN: Anyone who knows the facts on the ground say that.
ML: If it’s working, senator, do you now have a better estimate of when American forces can come home from Iraq?
JM: No, but that’s not too important. What’s important is the casualties in Iraq. Americans are in South Korea. Americans are in Japan. American troops are in Germany. That’s all fine.
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Fine? How does someone get an attitude like that?
June 11th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
I wonder if I can squat in one his guest houses indefinitely as long as I don’t break anything.
June 11th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Where would Sen. McCain be without all the help that Democrats are giving him? His own words will make the case that he is “Unfit.” Sad to watch if you are a Conservative. Actually, he’s so bad we are starting to sound “Shrill” in pointing out what’s so painfully obvious. Be better than the other guy and this is a landslide.
June 11th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Ever heard the phrase “join the Army to see the world.” McCain is spot on with this – what’s important is casualties, not the location where the troops are stationed. It takes a high level of disregard for the truth to take the “No, but that’s not important” and leave out the “What’s important is the casualties in Iraq” as many in the media and all in the Obama campaign are doing.
June 11th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
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I am very dissapointed with the our politicians, I think they ought to be ashamed of themselves. irresponsible, every last one of them . . . and it makes me sick!!!
June 11th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Which is it Senator McCain? A few months ago you obviously thought it was very important when you agreed to a possible time table and said maybe the troops would be out by 2013.
No matter what he thinks either way, that was a pretty stupid thing to say.
June 11th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
What’s important is whether or not we are welcome in these places, and whether we need to be, not whether or not the status quo is of immediate danger to us. We shouldn’t stay in places simply because it’s been “no big deal”.
June 11th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
WFG~ lol. Take me with you!
I guess the point he was trying to make is that victory is the most important objective, so it doesn’t matter when the troops come home as long as when they come home victory has been achieved. Remember, it doesn’t matter if it takes 5 more year, 100 years…
June 11th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
“Ever heard the phrase “join the Army to see the world.””
That was the Navy, not the Army.
June 11th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
I believe the clarification he’s been making is that it’s so bad if the troops aren’t harmed, which is comparitively true, but not correct by itself.
Take you with me on my Ins(H)annity Express, or to McCain’s guest house?
June 11th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
Some people have a hard time telling what they mean. We need to let the military decide when the soldiers come home and when we withdraw.
Some Americans, not all, do not understand why we had soldiers in Germany, South Korea, or Japan. Of course these same Americans do not know much about the details World War I or when the US Civil War was either, so the politicans need to make it simple for them.
June 11th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Look it’s simple: As soon as violence in the Middle East is over, we win! U-S-A! U-S-A!
June 11th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
The Navy also says accelerate your life….
to where though? Iraq? so that once you get there, you never get to leave?
yeah.
These are stupid military slogans…why not much rather go with JUST DO IT, by Nike. It all sounds stupid and redundantly pointless to me.
It sounds like, a military person came up with it…oh wait, it is the military.
Oh well, never letting my kids join the military, that’s for godamn sure.
June 11th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
yeah cassandra, you should know….
June 11th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
to the guest house. we’ll finally get our hbo moment. :-D
June 11th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
Gee, I wonder if the troops and their families think it’s “not too important”
June 12th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
heh
June 12th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Can we bring the troops back from Germany and Korea first? We have troops all over the world for a reason – but when there is blind hatred for the military…. It is a VOLUNTEER army people, it is like a cop or fireman who knows that he MAY NOT come home, and the families are very strong and understanding of that.
June 14th, 2008 at 11:27 pm