[QUOTE=Runestar]
However, I sure don’t remember Nixon insisting that we elect him to two terms before he’d enact his secret plan…
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Blame it on inflation. Two terms now is equivalent to only one term in 1960’s years. 
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton]
OTOH, if McCain is predicting the war will be “won” – that is, won by the U.S. – that ain’t gonna happen either.
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Spoken… err… written like a non-politician. All one has to do is change the victory conditions until they are achievable. (Basic project management: move the goalposts and milestones until you can declare the project came in “on time” and “within budget”).
I just find it sad that the man who could survive five and a half years of torture as a Prisoner of War, emerging as a stronger and more confident man, finally got beaten into submission by the Bush Administration of all things.
He clearly isn’t the same person that ran for president back in 2000.
Now this is a slogan that McCain can lose 49 states by (I’ll still give him Utah)
ELECT McCAIN: FIVE MORE YEARS OF WAR!
I think it’s as clever a way to say, “I will not, under any circumstances, end the Iraq war while I am President.”
[QUOTE=Biggirl]
I think it’s as clever a way to say, “I will not, under any circumstances, end the Iraq war while I am President.”
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hell, that worked for Bush.
[QUOTE=Long Time First Time]
Very convenient that the date he picks just happens to be after the next president’s first term.
Pure co-winky dink that one.
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That was my first thought.
[QUOTE=Runestar]
So he’s promising us that if we elect him in 2008, and then re-elect him in 2012, he’ll have the war won and the troops home by 2013.
Sheesh, this is even better than Nixon’s Secret Plan to end the Vietnam War. All the voters had to do was elect him president, and he’d end the war! (Can’t remember if that was in '68 or '72). However, I sure don’t remember Nixon insisting that we elect him to two terms before he’d enact his secret plan…
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It was 1968 that President Nixon was elected claiming that new leadership would win the war in Vietnam. I thought we agreed to never speak of that again.
[Paranoid] You know, the scary thing is, he could mean a time, not a year. Imagine if his first order as POTUS on the day of his inauguration were a complete and immediate withdrawal of American forces, shortly followed by large radioactive clouds. [/Paranoid]
Nah…
[QUOTE=Inigo Montoya]
We don’t have a presence in Mexico do we? I mean, not counting Texas and California.
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And Nevada and Utah and most of Arizona and half of New Mexico and parts of Colorado and Wyoming.