Dig a hole.

I like to refer to these scumbags as RepubliKKKans and/or Republicunts.

Sound byte nation.

I'd rather have these soldiers end it well than end it quickly because the latter will just mean a far bigger bite to chew off down the line. It's best if it never got started but since we can't turn back time, we need to clean it up well. Donsend my brother home if it means that my nephew willbbe cleaning up a bigger mess in 10 years. Goodness forbid a politician say something that's unpleasant to our ears. You don't f–k up a country and then say "peace out!" As fed up as I am with the war, I'm sure Iraqi civilians are far more fed up and the government that we placed into power (let's not kid ourselves with "elections") is incapable of running things (and perhaps that is exactly what the administration wanted). I don't agree with McCain's war strategy but I don't agree with Obama's either. It may be a poorly phrased statement, but I don't really think a man who left his wife and kids to fight in an equally senseless war is unaware of the commitment involved or how much these families are suffering. It's not that it's unimportant. It's that it shouldn't be the top priority and we shouldn't bring them back at any expense.

Not only did McCain fight in the Vietnam War but he was a POW. Excellent comment Daria, and I am with you, we can not cut and run out of Iraq.

I don't families with loved ones involved in the war will be too thrilled to hear the potential POTUS say a time line is not important. If you listen closely, he is basically saying we will push to have a strong military presence in he region. No matter how long that takes. Just wondering out loud, does any other country have a military presence inside the US? How to lower casualties when the people you are imposing your will on…don't want you there? I'm not saying we should up and leave, but there should be clear goals that must be set and achieved.

Clarification - He left his wife and kids to go to war because he was bored in the marriage and already dallying outside of it. that said, I agree you don't destroy a country and just bounce. However, when said country has a piles of money it ISN'T spending on itself or its citizens, and asking its debtors to forgive its debts while we are going deeper and deeper into debt and death on a daily basis…then i think its entirely appropriate to say Hey - We are leaving. We aren't going to just bounce but we are withdrawing SO you either find your way to the negotiating table and come to some resolution, or kill each other and wreck havoc on your own dime - hell you have plenty of them. Personally, we need to be invoicing them as the oil money was supposed to pay for all this damn reconstruction anyway…….

Holy shit! Lauren! You are a marvel!
"Can’t live with them… Can’t live with them."
I'm jacking that.

This was perhaps the dumbest thing I've heard during this long election season. Yesterday when I saw this piece with John McCain, I thought to myself if he could hear himself talk.

Not to talk of living in a YouTube, constant media age - just stupid of McCain.

He left his wife and kids to go to war because he was bored in the marriage and already dallying outside of it

Was it really that serious that he go to Vietnam to escape his wife? He could of gone out for a "pack of cigareets" like most men did in those days.