Lew Harper: Your husband keeps lousy company, Mrs. McCain, as bad as there is in DC. And that’s as bad as there is.
Sam Stein
The Huffington Post
McCain Strongly Rejected Long-Term Iraq Presence: “Bring Them All Home”
April 28, 2008 09:16 PM
When it comes to getting U.S. troops out of Iraq, Sen. John McCain was for the idea before he was against it.
Three years before the Arizona Republican argued on the campaign trail that U.S. forces could be in Iraq for 100 years in the absence of violence, he decried the very concept of a long-term troop presence.
In fact, when asked specifically if he thought the U.S. military should set up shop in Iraq along the lines of what has been established in post-WWII Germany or Japan — something McCain has repeatedly advocated during the campaign — the senator offered nothing short of a categorical “no.”
“I would hope that we could bring them all home,” he said on MSNBC. “I would hope that we would probably leave some military advisers, as we have in other countries, to help them with their training and equipment and that kind of stuff.”
Host Chris Matthews pressed McCain on the issue. “You’ve heard the ideological argument to keep U.S. forces in the Middle East. I’ve heard it from the hawks. They say, keep United States military presence in the Middle East, like we have with the 7th Fleet in Asia. We have the German…the South Korean component. Do you think we could get along without it?”
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Because Lauren Bacall probably would not support McCain,
this photograph is an obvious hoax.
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Images: (background) wichitaphoto.org; (Bacall) dvdbeaver.com; (McCains) AP photo via huffingtonpost.com (Harper semi-quote) via imdb.com