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| McCain in 2008 |
Of course the Arizona senator wasn't talking about a second Hundred Years War. After all, he later explained, decades after the end of World War II, there are still American troops in Japan and Germany, who are of course now among our closest allies.
There are still United States soldiers in South Korea.
In 2011, likely because he wanted to brag about ending the Iraq War on the 2012 campaign trail--which we had already won--Obama pulled all of our troops out of Iraq.
Back to 2008: Oh, did the Dems ever mock McCain over his one hundred years comment.
From CBS News six years ago:
Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and other Democrats have been critical of presumptive GOP nominee John McCain for suggesting that America could be in Iraq for 100 years.The Iraqi nation in 2011 was like a young tree. It was growing, but it wasn't firmly rooted.
"We can't afford to stay in Iraq, like John McCain said, for another 100 years," Obama said in Lancaster, PA., echoing other comments he has made on the trail.
"We cannot take four more years of more of the same and if you listen to Sen. McCain, he wants to keep troops in Iraq, he has said, for up to 100 years," Clinton said in February. She made similar remarks last month.
Democratic National Committee chair Howard Dean has called McCain "a blatant opportunist who...is promising to keep our troops in Iraq for 100 years."
Obama's policies have destroyed Iraq.
Watch here as then-Senator Obama distorts McCain's comments--and lies about it.
Iraq has descended into a hell with government troops deserting, civilian beheadings, and terrorists driving around in American paid-for Humvees firing captured American weapons.
McCain's "one hundred years" looks a lot better than Obama's Iraq three years after our military departed.
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