Kurt Nimmo
Truth News
January 4, 2008

It’s fine by the Manchurian candidate, John McCain, that the United States is in Iraq, killing thousands, so long as no Americans are harmed. From Scholars & Rogues:

John McCain, who about tied for third among Republicans in Iowa, had something quite startling to say about Iraq while campaigning in New Hampshire today. He interrupted someone recalling that President Bush envisions U.S. forces in Iraq for 50 more years with, “Maybe a hundred [years].” He continued, “That’s fine with me, I hope that would be fine with you, if we maintain a presence in a very volatile part of the world where al-Qaeda is training and equipping and recruiting and motivating people every single day.” Notice that “Independent Democrat” Sen. Joe Lieberman is standing behind him.

Of course, the American people are opposed to the occupation, but that does not matter to McCain, or any other candidate, for that matter, short of Ron Paul. No matter who you vote for come November, 2008, again short of Paul, this “war,” actually a planned razing and mass murder campaign, will go on for a hundred or more years, as Cheney and the neocons have promised.

David Corn asked McCain about his assertion afterward and says McCain told him American troops “could be in Iraq for ‘a thousand years’ or ‘a million years,’ as far as he was concerned.” Hey, why not shoot for a googolplex, Senator? You gotta think big.

Corn writes for Mother Jones:

After the event ended, I asked McCain about his “hundred years” comment, and he reaffirmed the remark, excitedly declaring that U.S. troops could be in Iraq for “a thousand years” or “a million years,” as far as he was concerned. The key matter, he explained, was whether they were being killed or not: “It’s not American presence; it’s American casualties.” U.S. troops, he continued, are stationed in South Korea, Japan, Europe, Bosnia, and elsewhere as part of a “generally accepted policy of America’s multilateralism.” There’s nothing wrong with Iraq being part of that policy, providing the government in Baghdad does not object.

Multilateralism, rejected by the American people, but all the rage with our rulers, who McCain represents. No word on the wishes of the people in South Korea, Japan, Europe, Bosnia. Did the Manchurian candidate ever bother to take a look at one of those anti-American demonstrations in South Korea? U.S. troops are equally hated and resented in parts of Japan and Europe. But then, the occupied hated the Roman legions as well. Difference is the emperors or would-be emperors of the Roman Empire didn’t care a whole lot “whether they were being killed or not,” as they understood soldiers are expendable, little more than “dumb animals,” as Kissinger so infamously called them, mere pawn pieces on the globalist chessboard.

In order to continue this, the government has to make sure it keeps the number of Americans killed and injured to an acceptable level. Of course, this is impossible, so instead it will make sure the American people never learn the truth: the corporate media does a darn fine job at hiding the real number of American soldiers killed.

As for the Iraqis, who cares?

It would seem we care more about the pregnancy of Britney’s little sister. In the meantime, we have to suffer through the comments of doddering old fools like John McCain as we slide toward November.