Did McCain say "100 years of our troops DYING in Iraq"? Hey Dems, Hey Obama...can you handle the TRUTH?

I think John McCain is a courageous man who served his country beyond the limits of physical suffering most people can imagine. He is a warrior who hates war, but knows first hand the feelings of frustration and failure at being sent to do a job, then not being allowed to finish it. That the man has personal issues is without doubt. Both of his marriages have been scarred with infidelities. But so was Bill Clinton's. So was John Kennedy's. Doesn't make it right, but there it is.

What I wish people would understand is that Obama's position on the war in Iraq has not been as unwavering as he would have us believe. He wrote in The Audacity of Hope that by March of 2003, “I began to suspect that I might have been wrong.” (about the war in Iraq).

In July, 2004, he told the Chicago Tribune, “There’s not that much difference between my position and George Bush’s position at this stage.”

Once elected to the US Senate, he told Charlie Rose on PBS, “Once the decision was made, then we’ve got to do everything we can to stabilize the country, to make it successful, because we’ll have too much at stake in the Middle East. And that’s the position that I continue to take.”

Mirroring the Bush administration’s position, he asserted on January 26, 2006, that “it remains my position that we have a role to play in stabilizing the country as Iraqis are getting their act together.” In this interview on Meet the Press, he further stated, “My position has been that it would not be responsible for us to unilaterally and precipitously draw troops down regardless of the politics, because I think that all of us have a stake in seeing Iraq succeed.”

A month before he announced his presidential candidacy he repositioned himself again, saying for the first time, “It’s time to start bringing our troops home.”

It wasn’t until May of 2007 that Obama voted against funding for the war for the first time.

In June, 2007, Obama voted no to Senator John F. Kerry’s proposal to remove most combat troops from Iraq by July 2007, warning that an “arbitrary deadline” could “compound” the Bush administration’s mistake. He voted instead for a Republican-sponsored resolution that stated the Senate would not cut off funding for troops in Iraq.

His supporters say he just changed his mind. About Clinton, they say she flip-flops.

He states he would bring the troops home from Iraq. Have you heard where he would send them? How about Darfur? The following comes from Obama's own website; how can his supporters refute it?

"While the U.S. has provided aid and military resources in Darfur, Obama believes this is America’s moment to confront the crisis and lead the way toward an end to this four year-old genocide. The U.S. urgently needs to change the calculus in Khartoum and stop the genocide. Obama believes there are immediate economic, military and covert steps the U.S., the international community, and our allies in Africa must take to show Khartoum that we will not tolerate continued genocide." "Obama also worked with Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) to secure $20 million for the African Union peacekeeping mission."

http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/a...

Maybe the 20 million for the African Union could have been put to better use here in our own country.

Moreover, Obama has put a bill before Congress asking for immense taxpayer funds sent to Africa. It’s Global Poverty Act (S 2433) which would shell out of America $845 billion as welfare moneys to third-world countries.

What will this cost each of us?

The tab is a tax of more than $2000 on each American breathing.

Instead of ragging on a man who has proven himself in war and in politics, and listening to a jumped-up junior senator berate him for getting the terms Shi'ite and Sunni mixed up during a speech, and gloating over it, I think Obama supporters should be looking up facts (and they are facts) about their candidate. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080319/pl_nm/usa_poli... (Please read it; it's ugly.)

But they won't. And everybody knows they won't.

Then they need to look deep within themselves and see if they believe that way, too. If so, vote for him, but know what you're doing first. Those who have read my posts know that I am a life long Democrat who is disheartened by the loss of Democratic beliefs I supported so many years, and resolutely trying to find them again in one of our candidates. So far, McCain is coming closer and closer, while the other two, particularly Obama, are turning into caricatures.

Sorry this is so long, but Obama has put his foot in his mouth, reversed his opinions, and flat out lied so many times, it's hard to stop once I get started. The incidents of deception and duplicity are just that numerous.

Gene: What do you expect from supporters of a guy who is truly

confused himself. I' mean really some of his problems would

truly weigh anyone down.

1. He calls himself Black,, Yet he is 1/4 black, 1/4 arab, 1/2

white. Just on ethnicity alone, he makes the three faces of

eve look like a joke.

2. Then he has this little religion thing,, Is he muslim, Is he

Christan, OMG the horror of it all... (pastor wright jump in and

save the Boy)

3. Then he has these minor anger issues,,, Its the grandmother thing,, then the Mom thing, then The I hate all

whites thing,, give a him a minute to sort some things out.

4. Then there is his voting record.. He thinks Present means

he voted,, when it called for Yea or Nay, In all reality I, can see

were that good be a little confusing.

5. Then there is this problem with just out right lying,,, come on

so the guy embellishes a little.. No big deal.,.. everyone doe's

it, so why not.

6. Then there is this little issue with the spelling of his name.

this is understandable, He says it was African,, Swahillee I,

do believe... But everyone in Kenya including his family says

it was Muslim,,,,, Now who is to quivil right,, certainly not me.

After these few examples can you not see where supporters

would be a little confused. there running around supporting

about 10 different people wrapped up into one person. So

cut em some slack, the one thing they are sure of though is

he is an Absolute Socialist of the Highest order. So that we can count on. So in his minds set McCain said 100 years for

sure., Hope this helps.

The liberal way of free speech, is to be able to lie without even being questioned, and the liberal leaning media agrees and supports this. when it was clearly shown that hillary lied, it was reported in a mild mannered way,with no daily digging into her past history of whoppers. Who was that past presidental candidate that was through, because it was found out he had a physiatrist visit?

How stupid is Obama! McCain won't be president for 100 years-- 4 years maybe 8?

Yes, he compared it to 60 years of presence in Germany and Japan.

it's a twist like the way they selectively edit Obama to make it look like he wants sex education in kindegarden.

The last time I checked the Koreans and the Germans had stopped killing our troops over 50 years ago. When that happens in Iraq I'll be happy to have some guys over there.

Now Gene are you truly surprised that those two are lying about McCain? hmmmm

The fact remains that ArCain wants to keep us mired in Iraq for many years beyond his lifetime. His idea, along with a lot of his followers, is to continue to use war as the first response. We need to get out of that war so we can start paying back the loans we've taken out from the Chinese government to fight it. They didn't tell you about that in neocon school?!? That's right, the war hasn't even begun to be paid for. And ArCain wants to stay there for a hundred years. Shouldn't we begin teaching Mandarin Chinese in our schools? Vote Democratic.

I am a Clinton supporter and I agree with you, I think a lot of people read what he said wrong.

Obama knows he is a loser so throw mud on the next president.

McCain will win by a landslide.

To the free range moron below me I ask the same question about a guy who spends TWENTY years in a racist church.