McCain Strongly Rejected Long-Term Iraq Presence: "Bring Them All Home"

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When it comes to getting U.S. troops out of Iraq, Sen. John McCain was for the idea before he was against it.

Three years before the Arizona Republican argued on the campaign trail that U.S. forces could be in Iraq for 100 years in the absence of violence, he decried the very concept of a long-term troop presence.

In fact, when asked specifically if he thought the U.S. military should set up shop in Iraq along the lines of what has been established in post-WWII Germany or Japan -- something McCain has repeatedly advocated during the campaign -- the senator offered nothing short of a categorical "no."

"I would hope that we could bring them all home," he said on MSNBC. "I would hope that we would probably leave some military advisers, as we have in other countries, to help them with their training and equipment and that kind of stuff."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/28/mccain-strongly-rejected_n_99082.html

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1. We need to start hammering on this guy

He's a myth created by the MSM. He's in poor health, can't remember thing well. Has flipped on more issues than anyone else in the race. His saying "I'm against anything that's anti-anything" made me think could he actually be dumber than Bush