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  • We’re only halfway through the war at this point

  • If the rate of the conflict holds, we can expect a further 4,000 US deaths before the war is over.*

  • We can similarly expect 30,000 wounded

  • If the rate of the calmer last year continues, we’re still facing 3,500 deaths and 22,000 wounded.

  • This presumes that Muqtada al-Sadr still finds it advantageous to maintain his unilateral cease-fire.

  • Oh, and the cost?  Another $533 billion at this rate.

How long is McCain projecting to keep us in Iraq?  Well, if we start tomorrow, we can complete the following before McCain is done with Iraq:

  • Re-stage the American Civil War

  • Or our involvement in World War One

  • Or our involvement in World War Two

  • Re-create the reign of Julius Ceasar

  • Run through just shy of two Kennedy Administrations

  • Complete more than five Berlin Airlifts

Republican crazy talk on Iraq is so normal, so expected, that it’s no longer major news when McCain promises that it will take twice as much time to achieve our goals in Iraq as it did in Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.

And heck, if we think that McCain’s planning and knowledge of Iraq is as proportionately inaccurate as Donald Rumsfeld’s (a factor of 12), then he’ll have us in there for 60 years.

* Data source

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  1. “The conflict is going to be relatively short.” – 3/23/03

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    p>”It’s clear that the end is very much in sight. It won’t be long. It, it’ll be a fairly short period of time.” – 4/9/03

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    p>”We will probably see significant progress in the next six months to a year.” – 12/4/05

    • Thus, 2013 probably really does seem like a short period of time to him.

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      p>Just for reference, in 1936, the year he was born, among other events:

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    • FDR was elected to his second term,

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    • The first building to be completely covered in glass was completed in Toledo, Ohio, for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, and

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    • The Abraham Lincoln brigade sailed to fight against fascism in the Spanish Civil War.

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      p>Let us not forget that the year of John McCain’s birth is now almost exactly equidistant between 2008 (72 years) and the end of the Civil War (71 years).  

      • There is a website listing some noteworthy items that, while old, are younger than McSame:

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        p>www.thingsyoungerthanmccain.com

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        p>Highlights include:

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        p>Chocolate chip cookies

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        p>Area codes

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        p>TV dinners

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        p>The shopping cart

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        p>Nylon

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        p>Alaska

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        p>Bugs Bunny

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        p>The Polio Vaccine

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        p>Superman

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        p>The ballpoint pen

      • to stick to the issues instead of focusing on his age.  There’s plenty of stuff to dissect without this kind of crap.  Evidently progessive means what in your book?

  2. I must have missed the Senators latest plan.
    2013 huh?
    Is that the plan for victory that requires our invasion of Iran to stem the “recent surge of violence” ?

  3. Do you guys thing that “ageism” qualifies as a form of bigotry, and if so, does mocking McCain’s age thus qualify as playing dirty? Letterman seems to have started it, and nobody is really telling anyone to stop.

    • it is bigotry.  It just happens to be an accepted ‘ism’, so everybody plays along.  I hated the way Mike Gravel was treated because of his age, and I’m not in favor of using it against McSame.  Glad you asked.  I believe Asian culture is respectful of elders.  Wish that were true in the US.  There are far more subtle and amusing ways of pointing out McSame’s dementia without making it about his age.  

  4. The Bush Administration and its Arizonan echo have been incapable of defining a goal, plan, strategy or purpose for staying in Iraq — other than the goal of staying in Iraq.

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    p>McCain, who thought that Iran supported Al Qaeda, is singularly ill-equipped to come up with a goal, plan, or strategy for ending our involvement in Iraq.

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    p>So when he says we’ll be out by 2013, he is speaking out of his arse.

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