Posted on 07/06/2011 4:58:54 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
The US should keep as many as 13,000 troops in Iraq beyond the end-of-year deadline for ending its eight-year combat mission there to help keep the peace around hot spots, according to John McCain, the influential Republican senator.
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“I understand the war weariness of the American people ... but I also believe that our interests are our values, for one thing,” he told the FT, adding that he was “puzzled” when people say the US should not act when Muammer Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, has been promising to go house to house and kill Libyans who oppose him.
“We promised there would never be another Srebrenica, another Rwanda, so how could we have sat by and watched Gaddafi mercilessly slaughter his own people?” Mr McCain said.
(Excerpt) Read more at ft.com ...
For a minute there I thought McCain called for 13,000 troops to be stationed on the U.S. Mexico border. Silly me.
It is long past time that Iraq pays our occupation costs if they want us to stay. Newsflash : WE ARE BROKE!
Think Iranian containment, not Iraqi occupation.
We need the Tombstone Rangers and more Texas Rangers on the borders.
That would help a lot!
Think "THE US IS IS BROKE. IRAQ HAS OIL." If they need us to protect them they can start paying.
Nobody tells McCain about Syria, hmm?
All McCain is: apologist for Bambi, trial balloon floater for Bambi, point man for Dems and leftist radicals, cover provider for any other gutless RINO who is afraid to stand up to the Dem machine. Purely worthless to his party, a traitor now and before to his country.
The more I see of him, the more I believe that.
And if the Iraqis don’t want us there, that makes us what?
An occupying force...
Hey McCain is oil going to pay for it all or do we have to throw some more grandparents off the bridge?
Hey McCain, you're a dipstick. The SOFA was signed back in 2008.
“I understand the war weariness of the American people ... but I also believe that our interests are our values, for one thing,” he told the FT, adding that he was “puzzled” when people say the US should not act when Muammer Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, has been promising to go house to house and kill Libyans who oppose him.
Yep, it's not our problem. Nobody elected the US to be the worlds cop. If some thrid-world country wants to have a civil war, that's their business.
“Think “THE US IS IS BROKE. IRAQ HAS OIL.” If they need us to protect them they can start paying.”
MEGA BUMP.
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