100 years in iraq (and not just iraq)

e: ... think back to when McCain said 100 Years In Iraq "Would Be Fine With Me" ...
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[thinkprogress.org]
McCain Flip Flops Again: 100 Years In Iraq 'Would Be Fine With Me ...
jan 4, 2008

During a town hall meeting in Derry, New Hampshire last night, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) told a crowd of roughly two hundred people that it “would be fine with” him if the U.S. military stayed in Iraq for “a hundred years“:

Q: President Bush has talked about our staying in Iraq for 50 years — (cut off by McCain)

McCAIN: Make it a hundred.

Q: Is that … (cut off)

McCAIN: We’ve been in South Korea … we’ve been in Japan for 60 years. We’ve been in South Korea 50 years or so. That would be fine with me. As long as Americans …

Q: [tries to say something]

McCAIN: As long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed. That’s fine with me, I hope that would be fine with you, if we maintain a presence in a very volatile part of the world where Al Queada is training and equipping and recruiting and motivating people every single day.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2008/01/04/18627/mccain-100-years/
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e: ... "maintain a presence in a very volatile part of the world where Al Queada is training and equipping and recruiting and motivating people every single day" ...  is not just iraq ... (and we never left) ...

... "it's the oil stupid."
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see also:

pt2 Haifa oil pipeline (Lebanon)
http://adventuresofagreenhorn.blogspot.com/2013/09/pt2-haifa-oil-pipeline-lebanon.html

Caspian Sea to Haifa oil pipeline (Syria)
http://adventuresofagreenhorn.blogspot.com/2013/09/caspian-sea-to-haifa-oil-pipeline-syria.html

no party for you
http://adventuresofagreenhorn.blogspot.com/2012/09/no-party-for-you.html

how to watch political news shows
http://adventuresofagreenhorn.blogspot.com/2012/09/how-to-watch-political-news-shows.html