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Posted at 10:16am on Mar. 26, 2008 Democrat Counter-Offer: 100 Years Of Capitulation

as opposed to 100 years of war...apparently

By haystack

[Via Politico, we have the forming of the Dem strategy for beating McCain in November:

John McCain is scheduled to deliver a major foreign policy speech Wednesday in Los Angeles, one with a heavy Iraq focus, but chances are Democrats won’t be listening. They’ve already distilled his views into an easy to remember formulation: 100 years of war.

It is a reference to an offhand remark made by McCain in January about the possible duration of the U.S. presence in Iraq, a comment that Democrats now portray as the equivalent of the McCain Doctrine.

McCain Doctrine...hunh. Has a sorta nice ring to it, dontchathink? I certainly like it better than the Obama Doctrine...the Obamatrine...of "Tuck Tail and Run."

Citing Obama's remarks on the 5th Anniversary of our presence in Iraq, Politico suggests the "real" hammer the Democrats will likely be swinging appears to something more like 100 years of capitulation:

Instead of offering an exit strategy for Iraq, he’s offering us a 100 year occupation.

Exit strategy is a great buzz word, and Occupation gets all the new generation of hippies chanting something incoherent about Attica, but as McCain reminded us in the REAL quote, we're 60 years running with a presence in Japan and Germany...50 in Korea...how is Iraq (long-term) different? Oh, that's right-there are still bad guys in Iraq with guns and explosives. We need to get the heck outta Dodge until there are no more bad guys. Why on earth would we have Soldiers doing the work of Soldiers where there is currently a need for...Soldiers?

When will we hear Barry and Hill demand an exit strategy in these places? September? October?

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