100 years’ = ‘soon’ = Another McCain lie on Iraq

Schmuck Talk Express™ (and invented by this very blogger) is now claiming the war in Iraq will be over soon. This new line of BS, different from previous such lines, is far away from the “100 years of war” comments of previous weeks:

“My friends, the war will be over soon...” McCain told the crowd. “The insurgency will go on for years and years and years. But it will be handled by the Iraqis, not by us.”

“And then we decide what kind of security arrangement we want to have with the Iraqis.”

This, McCain has indicated, was what he was referring to in January when he said that troops could be in Iraq for 100 years.

“In Korea we've had, as you know, ever since the Korean War, we’ve had a military presence in South Korea. So my Democrat friends like to distort that comment.”

Let’s count all the different lies or distortions. Let’s start at the bottom.

South Korea didn’t have an ongoing insurgency since the end of the Korean War.

Related to that, South Korea faced North Korea, a separate country, across a clearly defined border.

Second, if Iraqis are supposed to handle an insurgency after “date X,” why do they need our troops there?

Third, McCain put no such context on his “100 years” statement when he uttered it. It’s clear he’s trying to backtrack.