icarus | 100 years in Iraq. (Reply)

Have you seen the Democrat's ad against McCain?

They play and replay McCain's reply that it would be fine with him if the US stayed in Iraq for 100 years.

The Republican party hates this clip and this ad so much, they're threatening legal action against TV stations that play it.

But if that's not enough, let's bring back the cold war!

I'm looking for the article, but

wildernessguru tells me that yesterday McCain suggested Russia should be removed from the ~~European Union~~ G8.

Ah. Found the article on Reuters: McCain would exclude Russia from G8 nations

Mon Oct 15, 2007 2:45pm EDT
Reuters

By Steve Holland

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCainsaid on Monday if elected he would push to exclude Russia from theGroup of Eight conclave of major industrial nations to punish Moscowfor rolling back political freedoms.

"We need a new Western approach to this revanchist Russia," McCainwrote in a Foreign Affairs magazine article outlining his views onforeign policy looking ahead to the November 2008 election.

The Group of Eight, known as the G8, includes the United States,Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Canada, Japan and Russia. Theirleaders gather each year in one of their countries to discuss majoreconomic and political challenges facing the globe.

Russia is a fairly recent entry into the group, joining the Group ofSeven in 1997, and President Vladimir Putin played host to the annualG8 summit in St. Petersburg in 2006.

McCain, an Arizona senator who frequently denigrates Putin, said theG8 should again become "a club of leading market democracies: It shouldinclude Brazil and India but exclude Russia."

"Today, we see in Russia diminishing political freedoms, aleadership dominated by a clique of former intelligence officers,efforts to bully democratic neighbors, such as Georgia, and attempts tomanipulate Europe's dependence on Russian oil and gas," McCain wrote.

At age 71 trying to become the oldest American to win a first termas president, McCain said the challenges facing the country are suchthat "there will be no time for on-the-job training."

McCain sought to distance himself from the foreign policies ofPresident George W. Bush in the article, never mentioning the currentpresident, while singling out Bush's father, George H.W. Bush, forpraise for forming a broad international coalition during the Gulf Warof the early 1990s.

He said years of "mismanagement and failure in Iraq" are proof thatthe United States should go to war only with sufficient troop levelsand with a realistic and comprehensive plan for success.

But he said the current U.S. troop build-up is working in Iraq andshould be pursued, dismissing Democratic candidates who promise a quickpullout.

"The war in Iraq cannot be wished away, and it is a miscalculationof historic magnitude to believe that the consequence of failure willbe limited to one administration or one party," he wrote.

McCain said if elected he would set up a new intelligence agencypatterned after the Office of Strategic Services, the World War Twopredecessor to the CIA, to fight "terrorist subversion around the worldand in cyberspace."

"It could take risks that our bureaucracies today rarely considertaking -- such as deploying infiltrating agents without diplomaticcover in terrorist states and organizations -- and play a key role infrontline efforts to rebuild failed states," he said.

To fight climate change, McCain said he would do what the currentadministration has refused to do. He would agree to set reasonable capson emissions of carbon dioxide and provide industries with tradableemissions credits.