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View Poll Results: Should we be in Iraq for 100 years?
Yes, our boys should die for a foreign nation for a century 3 15.79%
no, we should only build an empire for three decades, tops 0 0%
not 100 years, but at least until the oil runs out 6 31.58%
No, we should worry about America's economy and freedom first 10 52.63%
Voters: 19. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 06-12-2008, 11:46 PM
 
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Should we be in Iraq for 100 years?...and how do you think McSame would vote in this poll?...ohh, he'd probably change his vote once every three hours, just like he does everything else
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Old 06-13-2008, 12:46 AM
 
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Should we be in Iraq for 100 years?...and how do you think McSame would vote in this poll?...ohh, he'd probably change his vote once every three hours, just like he does everything else
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Grampie McSame first said 100 years, then it was 50 years and then he said maybe 4 years for troop withdrawal. Now he is saying that setting a "withdrawal date" is not that important. OKAY FLIP FLOPPER or another senior moment. You decide!

McCain says setting Iraq withdrawal date 'not that important' › Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion
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Old 06-13-2008, 10:23 PM
 
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Grampie McSame first said 100 years, then it was 50 years and then he said maybe 4 years for troop withdrawal. Now he is saying that setting a "withdrawal date" is not that important. OKAY FLIP FLOPPER or another senior moment. You decide!

McCain says setting Iraq withdrawal date 'not that important' › Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion

I don't think he was flip-flopping...more likely, he said "100 years" because he thought the question was "how old are you".
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Old 06-13-2008, 10:29 PM
 
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Maybe he thought someone would reference Japan and Korea.

But that would take an audience with a three-digit IQ.
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Old 06-13-2008, 10:39 PM
 
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Maybe he thought someone would reference Japan and Korea.

But that would take an audience with a three-digit IQ.

Japan and Korea are two examples of the government wasting money. Both nations are more than capable of defending themselves and do not need us wasting time and money on them. McSame wants to repeat the same old mistakes of the past...for crying out loud, we still have several bases in western Europe that serve no purpose but to defend the west from the Soviet Union, ABOUT TWENTY YEARS AFTER THE USSR WENT BUY-BUY!

That is not fiscal responsibility, that is not smaller government, that is the same old same old.
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Old 06-13-2008, 10:50 PM
 
Location: San Antonio North
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I voted for the first just to cause thus poll is misleading and idiotic.

Drink up is all one can say!
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Old 06-13-2008, 11:35 PM
 
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If history proves corect we will be no matter who is in charge.

Heck, look where we are now, Korea, Germany, Japan, etc... How many years since those conflicts ended?
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Old 06-13-2008, 11:36 PM
 
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Japan and Korea are two examples of the government wasting money. Both nations are more than capable of defending themselves and do not need us wasting time and money on them. McSame wants to repeat the same old mistakes of the past...for crying out loud, we still have several bases in western Europe that serve no purpose but to defend the west from the Soviet Union, ABOUT TWENTY YEARS AFTER THE USSR WENT BUY-BUY!

That is not fiscal responsibility, that is not smaller government, that is the same old same old.
I served at one of those bases in Europe, talk about a waste of money. Totally useless base with no purpose in it at all. Thankfully they axed it in the last round of base closings.

One down, several more to go.
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Old 06-14-2008, 01:54 PM
 
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I served at one of those bases in Europe, talk about a waste of money. Totally useless base with no purpose in it at all. Thankfully they axed it in the last round of base closings.

One down, several more to go.

You get a rep for that one, soldier!

I had a friend who was stationed in Deutschland, and he said it was like a working-vacation with ****-poor accomidations. He, and no one he served with, could understand what they, in 1998, where doing in Europe keeping an eye on a long dead Soviet Union.
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Old 06-14-2008, 02:00 PM
 
Location: Raleigh, NC
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Maybe he thought someone would reference Japan and Korea.

But that would take an audience with a three-digit IQ.
Because we need to deplete our treasury for troops in Japan just incase the rising sun wishes to rise again? What's another nation under occupation among friends?

Then again, I must be the 137 IQ outlier record.
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