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John McCain, NeoCons, the Israel Lobby and Weekly Standard (USS
Liberty and Ron Paul mentioned):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DgfLeZXrluZw

http://neoconzionistthreat.blogspot.com/2008/03/make-people-aware-subscribe.=
html

Here is a tiny URL of the above one:


http://tinyurl.com/358b8c ]

http://hightidepromo.com

6 Signs the U.S. May Be Headed for War in Iran

http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=3D71055&start=3D670

Here is a tiny URL of the above one:

http://tinyurl.com/39qkun


http://NOMOREWARFORISRAEL.BLOGSPOT.COM





On Mar 24, 9:24=A0am, "Jerry Okamura" wrote:
> The quetion is not whether we should have gone to war or whether we should=

> not have gone to war, since we did go to war. =A0Saying that someone, want=
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> us to go to war, is meaningless, because we did go to war.
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> "Al E. Crocodile" wrote in messagenews=
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> > "LEROY KNEVIL" wrote in message
> >news:47e6fa65$0$13880$8f2e0ebb@news.shared-secrets.com...
> >>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/23/mccain-pushed-for-war-in-_n_...=

>
> >> As America's war in Iraq enters its sixth year, Sen. JohnMcCainis
> >> hoping
> >> that his long effort to send thousands more U.S. troops -- a "surge" th=
at
> >> has helped lower casualties -- will propel him into the White House.
> >> ButMcCain'srecord on Iraq is decidedly mixed. If the Arizona Republican=

> >> proved prescient in his calls for a military buildup, many of his other=

> >> predictions and prescriptions turned out wrong.
>
> >> Here is a look back at five years of JohnMcCainon Iraq.
>
> >> On the Run-Up to War
>
> >> "Look, we're going to send young men and women in harm's way and that's=

> >> always a great danger, but I cannot believe that there is an Iraqi
> >> soldier
> >> who is going to be willing to die for Saddam Hussein, particularly sinc=
e
> >> he
> >> will know that our objective is to remove Saddam Hussein from power."
> >> JohnMcCain, September 15, 2002.
>
> >> "But the fact is, I think we could go in with much smaller numbers than=

> >> we
> >> had to do in the past. But any military man worth his salt is going to
> >> have
> >> to prepare for any contingency, but I don't believe it's going to be
> >> nearly
> >> the size and scope that it was in 1991."
> >> JohnMcCain, September 15, 2002.
>
> >> "He's a patriot who has the best interests of his country at heart."
> >> JohnMcCain, on Ahmed Chalabi, 2003.
>
> >> On Saddam's Weapons of Mass Destruction
>
> >> "Proponents of containment claim that Iraq is in a "box." But it is a b=
ox
> >> with no lid, no bottom, and whose sides are falling out. Within this bo=
x
> >> are
> >> definitive footprints of germ, chemical and nuclear programs."
> >> JohnMcCain, February 13, 2003.
>
> >> "I remain confident that we will find weapons of mass destruction in
> >> Iraq."
> >> JohnMcCain, June 11, 2003.
>
> >> On Being Greeted as Liberators
>
> >> "Absolutely. Absolutely."
> >> JohnMcCain, asked by Chris Matthews, "you believe that the people of
> >> Iraq
> >> or at least a large number of them will treat us as liberators?" March
> >> 12,
> >> 2003.
>
> >> "Not only that, they'll be relieved that he's not in the neighborhood
> >> because he has invaded his neighbors on several occasions."
> >> JohnMcCain, asked by Chris Matthews, "And you think the Arab world will=

> >> come to a grudging recognition that what we did was necessary?" March 1=
2,
> >> 2003.
>
> >> "There's no doubt in my mind that we will prevail and there's no doubt =
in
> >> my
> >> mind, once these people are gone, that we will be welcomed as
> >> liberators."
> >> JohnMcCain, March 24, 2003.
>
> >> On a Rapid Victory and Mission Accomplished
>
> >> "I think the victory will be rapid, within about three weeks."
> >> JohnMcCain, January 28, 2003.
>
> >> "It's clear that the end is very much in sight...It won't be long. It,
> >> it'll
> >> be a fairly short period of time."
> >> JohnMcCain, April 9, 2003.
>
> >> "Well, then why was there a banner that said mission accomplished on th=
e
> >> aircraft carrier?"
> >> JohnMcCain, responding to assertion by Fox News' Neil Cavuto that "many=

> >> argue the conflict isn't over," June 11, 2003.
>
> >> "I have said a long time that reconstruction of Iraq would be a long,
> >> long,
> >> difficult process, but the conflict -- the major conflict is over, the
> >> regime change has been accomplished, and it's very appropriate."
> >> JohnMcCain, June 11, 2003.
>
> >> "I'm confident we're on the right course."
> >> JohnMcCain, March 7, 2004.
>
> >> "We're either going to lose this thing or win this thing within the nex=
t
> >> several months."
> >> JohnMcCain, November 12, 2006.
>
> >> "My friends, the war will be over soon, the war for all intents and
> >> purposes
> >> although the insurgency will go on for years and years and years."
> >> JohnMcCain, February 25, 2008.
>
> >> On the Safe Streets of Baghdad
>
> >> "[There] there "are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk=

> >> through those neighborhoods, today."
> >> JohnMcCain, after touring a Baghdad market wearing a bulletproof vest
> >> and
> >> guarded by "100 American soldiers, with three Blackhawk helicopters, an=
d
> >> two
> >> Apache gunships overhead, April 1, 2007.
>
> >> "There's problems in America with safe neighborhoods as we well know."
> >> JohnMcCain, March 8, 2008.
>
> >> On President Bush and His Team
>
> >> "We are very fortunate that our president in these challenging days can=

> >> rely
> >> on the counsel of a man who has demonstrated time and again the resolve=
,
> >> experience, and patriotism that will be required for success and the
> >> hard-headed clear thinking necessary to prevail in this global fight
> >> between
> >> good and evil."
> >> JohnMcCain, on Dick Cheney, July 16, 2004.
>
> >> "I think he strengthened our national defenses. I think he has a good
> >> team
> >> around him."
> >> JohnMcCain, on President Bush, September 3, 2004.
>
> >> "I said no. My answer is still no. No confidence."
> >> JohnMcCain, on whether he had confidence in Bush Defense Secretary
> >> Donald
> >> Rumsfeld, December 15, 2004.
>
> >> On a Permanent American Military Presence in Iraq
>
> >> "We cannot keep our forces indefinitely staged in the region. Were we t=
o
> >> attempt again to contain Saddam, we would eventually have to withdraw
> >> them.
> >> The world is full of dangers and, more likely than not, we will need so=
me
> >> of
> >> those brave men and women to face them down."
> >> JohnMcCain, February 13, 2003.
>
> >> "We have had troops in South Korea for 60 years and nobody minds."
> >> JohnMcCain, June 7, 2007.
>
> >> "Make it a hundred."
> >> JohnMcCain, told that President Bush had said American troops could
> >> remain
> >> in Iraq for 50 years, January 3, 2008.
>
> >> "I askedMcCainabout his 'hundred years' comment, and he reaffirmed the
> >> remark, excitedly declaring that U.S. troops could be in Iraq for 'a
> >> thousand years' or 'a million years,' as far as he was concerned."
> >> David Corn, January 3, 2008.
>
> >> "The U.S. could have a military presence anywhere in the world for a lo=
ng
> >> period of time."
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