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Originally Posted by Ferd
Rico, those are some pretty wild ideas you have there! each party should have their turn? what about the green party? do they get 8 years? what about the Liberatarian party? do they get 8 years?
As for John McCain not caring about the troops... well thats just crazy. the context of McCains comments about it not being important when they come home is NOT that he wants them fighting a hot war for ever. It is the same context of our troops being in places like Korea, Japan and Germany.
it isnt important what date we close our bases of operations in those locations. in fact it is important that we keep those bases open!
the same with Iraq.
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Yeah, I know it's kind of wild. I wouldn't consider the Green party to be a legitimate party, to be honest with you. I don't consider the Libertarians to be one either. We have established ourselves as being pretty much a two party country, the Democrats and the Republicans. If one of the other "parties" can gain enough seats in Congress and the Senate, then I could see giving them a shot at running the Whitehouse.
As for McCain's comments, I got the context in which he made them. He was basically saying the troops there would be much like those in Japan, Germany, and elsewhere in the world. They would be more of a deterrent than an occupying force. He hasn't brought forth a plan to make that transition into being a deterrent. Right now they qualify more as occupiers than a deterrent. In fact, they look more like the policeman of a Civil War than anything else, in my opinion. This stopped being about WMDs a long time ago.
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