"The United States military could stay in Iraq for 'maybe a hundred years' and that 'would be fine with me,' John McCain told two hundred or so people at a town hall meeting in Derry, New Hampshire, on Thursday evening. . . .
"After the event ended, I asked McCain about 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. The key matter, he explained, was whether they were being killed or not: 'It's not American presence; it's American casualties.' U.S. troops, he continued, are stationed in South Korea, Japan, Europe, Bosnia, and elsewhere as part of a 'generally accepted policy of America's multilateralism.' There's nothing wrong with Iraq being part of that policy, providing the government in Baghdad does not object."
Boy, do we need the one candidate who doesn't believe in the "generally accepted policy of America's multilateralism" to beat this guy!
(Link via Antiwar.com.)
