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McCain: Most Troops Will Be Home by 2013
Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 10:09 am
by Bob Juch
Senator John McCain declared on Thursday that most American troops will be home from Iraq by 2013 and that Iraq will be a functioning democracy with only “spasmodic’’ episodes of violence, a striking departure from his refusal so far to set a date for U.S. withdrawal.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008 ... e-by-2013/
That's not soon enough for me.
Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 10:23 am
by gsabc
There must have been a sale on rose-colored glasses in the Republican congressional cloakroom.
Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 10:26 am
by NellyLunatic1980
Notice that year. That just happens to be the final three weeks of his one term as president.
Translation: He's not doing jack-s**t until he's out of the WH.
Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 10:29 am
by BackInTex
NellyLunatic1980 wrote:Notice that year. That just happens to be the final three weeks of his one term as president.
Translation: He's not doing jack-s**t until he's out of the WH.
I think what it indicates is that he is committed to getting them all out before the next president can cancel any troop withdrawals.
He doesn't say they will all come home that week, just that they mostly will all be home by then.
Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 10:38 am
by slam
BackInTex wrote:NellyLunatic1980 wrote:Notice that year. That just happens to be the final three weeks of his one term as president.
Translation: He's not doing jack-s**t until he's out of the WH.
I think what it indicates is that he is committed to getting them all out before the next president can cancel any troop withdrawals.
He doesn't say they will all come home that week, just that they mostly will all be home by then.
Isn't it reassuring the way that people of different political beliefs can at least agree that applying political spin in their own direction is a good thing?
Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 11:46 am
by silverscreenselect
NellyLunatic1980 wrote:Notice that year. That just happens to be the final three weeks of his one term as president.
Translation: He's not doing jack-s**t until he's out of the WH.
In fairness to McCain, his speech was phrased in terms of looking into the future at a hypothetical speech he might give at the end of his term in 2013, and what had been accomplished until then.
He didn't set times or dates for any of these things other than within the framework of his four years in office. So there were no specifics on anything about when they might happen.