McCain is running for Bush's 3rd term, specifically with war in Iraq.

Clearly this debate is centered around the concept that John McCain is running for Bush's third term. Since the beginning, McCain's tactics and promises for the future (specifically in Iraq) are mostly parallel to those of the current Pres. George W. Bush. As I will make apparent in the rest of the arguement. John McCain says the economy is fundamentally sound. John McCain doesn't think that 47 million people without health insurance is a crisis. John McCain wants to privatize Social Security. And in 2008, he still thinks it's okay when women don't earn equal pay for equal work. (Clinton's Speech delivered at DNC) In an interview with John McCain... Mediatior: "Pres. Bush has talked about us staying in Iraq for 50 years..." McCain: "Maybe 100. We've been in Japan for, what, 6 years, we've been in South Korea for 50 years or so, that'd be fine with me as long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed. And it's fine with me, I would hope it would be fine with you." With war comes loss and hard times. A country is going to experience that with any war, that's not what I'm saying. But we have been in Iraq for almost 7 years now. There have been no weapons of mass destruction that Bush says were there. No Osama bin laden. Yes, we captured and killed Hussein. And we are rebuilding Iraq. However, we have become so obsessed with the well being of Iraq that we are loosing sight of what is happening here at home. Gas prices are sky-rocketing, the cost of grain is going up, people are loosing their jobs, health insurance is unaffordable, and the economy is plummeting. The American government is so OCD about Iraq, and in an interview with Michael Scheuer, author of 'Marching towards Hell', on Fox News. He stated: "Mr. McCain is very confident, but he's clueless...he continues to tell Americans that these people are Islamo Fascists and they hate us because of our freedoms and they hate us because of our liberties. What they hate us for is the unusually verialent strain of obsessive compulsive disorder that's present in the American governing class, and that's called interventionism. That's what the cause of this war is, and Mr. McCain...doesn't have that idea." Now I understand that some people in Iraq want the change, but they are the minority. And just like any citizen of a country, they are fighting back. I put it on the same wavelength as Russia invading the USA and proceeding to turn everything around towards Communism. Now, some Americans may want the change, but as citizens of a country we are not going to just sit back, let another country invade ours, and allow them to intervene with the way things are done here towards what they think is better. We will fight. And any American you ask would say the same thing. Now, granted our way of democracy IS better than the current government over there. But you have to look at it from their standpoint. How would you feel if this was happening to you. But I'm getting off topic. McCain stated on Jan 18, 2008 in Florence that "there's gonna be more wars" and that "we're in a big struggle that's going to last the rest of the century." Why?! This country is going downhill as it is. And instead of a president telling us that "there's going to be more wars", why not try and fix the USA's standings with the rest of the world?! Try to repair the damage that has been done to our image with the rest of the world?! Repair the damage that has been done at home and get America back on it's feet?! Why does a President have to say that "there's going to be more wars" instead of promising hope for the future of us, our children and generations to come!? As a president, his job is to help get us out of the struggle, it's not going to resolve itself. So as a man running for leader of our country, how can he sit there and say that the struggle will last for the rest of this century. You're running for president, what are you going to do to change that!? "You get John McCain in the White House, and I do believe we will be at war with Iran." -- Pat Buchanan, Political Analyst, MSNBC "Bomb Iran. Bomb. Bomb. Bomb" --John McCain interview (date unknown) In an interview with Scott Ritter about invading Iran: "If we start bombing Iran, I'm telling you right now, it's not going to work. We're not going to achieve decapitation, regime change, all that. What will happen is the Iranians will respond, and we will feel the pain instantaneously, which will prompt the Bush administration to phase two, which will have to be boots on the ground. And we will put boots on the ground, we will surge a couple of divisions in, probably through Azerbaijan, down the Caspian Sea coast, in an effort to push the regime over. And when they don't push over, we now have 40,000 troops trapped. We have now reached the definition of significant numbers of U.S. troops in harm's way, and there is no reserve to pull them out! There's no more cavalry to come riding to the rescue. And at that point in time, my concern is that we will use nuclear weapons to break the backbone of Iranian resistance, and it may not work. But what it will do is this: it will unleash the nuclear genie. And so for all those Americans out there tonight who say, 'You know what - taking on Iran is a good thing.' I just told you if we take on Iran, we're gonna use nuclear weapons. And if we use nuclear weapons, the genie ain't going back in the bottle, until an American city is taken out by an Islamic weapon in retaliation. So, tell me, you want to go to war with Iran. Pick your city. Pick your city. Tell me which one you want gone. Seattle? L.A.? Boston? New York? Miami. Pick one. Cause at least one's going. And that's something we should all think about before we march down this path of insanity that George Bush has us headed on." Faiza Al-Aliji, a civil engineer, said this in response to the war in Iraq: "This is the difference between the people living in Iraq and the people living in USA. When I'm listening to President Bush when he's talking or the people who are supporting him I just say "Oh my God! they are still living in their dreams and illusions!" They are talking in something of their dreams, not on the ground. Why don't they listen to the Iraqi people? They are trying to force the Iraqi people to think the way they want. And this is the wrong way." In a discussion with the leaders of Iraq: "The truth is, as the shiek said before me, there is only one problem in Iraq that you all know. And that is the occupation, it's the source of all the problems that's happening in Iraq. We want the Americans to leave now. We think that if they leave now, Iraqis will fix their internal problems themselves. We think that the present, or American occupation now is causing more sectarian problems." We need to give Iraq THEIR country back, it's not our place to tell them how to live and what to do. Since when did the American government decide that we are such a great nation that we now have the power to tell other countries how to live? What type of government to have? Since when did we decide not to listen to the citizens of the country, but do what we want, regardless of others thoughts. Democracy - a government BY THE PEOPLE. So why are we not listening to THE PEOPLE?! This is not the American way of doing things, this is the Bush way and the McCain way...