TPM Joins the Pile-On

TalkingPointsMemo puts together a good montage of McCain's ever-changing position on how long he wants us to be in Iraq. Basically his time frame is somewhere between 20 years and 10,000 years.



Of course, since McCain contradicts himself constantly and uses all sorts of caveats and qualifiers, you can't really pin him down to a specific number of years. Here at Old Man McCain we say split the difference and assume that McCain is cool with 5,000 years in Iraq as long as nobody is dying.

Of course, what happens if we are there peacefully for, say, 35 years, and then a homicidal Iraqi kills one of our troops in 2043? Would McCain want us to immediately withdraw because of another American casualty? Is just one death good enough to push us out of there?

And if so, why don't we just pull out right now? We've lost over 40 troops this month alone. Perhaps the press should ask McCain how long he wants us to stay in Iraq if troops keep getting killed and wounded?

We like the Democrat's approach much better. If you pull our troops out of Iraq, then our troops will stop getting killed in Iraq. Seems to have a much higher chance of success than this century-long boondoggle proposed by Grandpa McCain.