So, McCain says its not about how long we are in Iraq, It's about casualties

[jasmine621]

Is he aware of the nine US soldiers killed in the last three days?

[Hobarticus]

1. This is the guy who goes shopping in Baghdad with an Army brigade

Insists afterwards that the street was as safe as any other in America, and would do it again...and then doesn't make a sound when 21 of the merchants from that street market were dead the next week, after insurgents assumed they were sympathetic to the occupiers.

It wouldn't be convenient to acknowledge casualties, y'see.

You expect better, from McCain?

[pegleg]

2. And why are we there, again?

[gratuitous]

3. See, it's complicated

We need to be in Iraq as long as our soldiers are getting killed so they won't have died for no good reason, and we have to maintain a military presence to protect the soldiers who are there, and as long as none of the soldiers is getting hurt or killed, then our presence is maintaining order against the chaotic tide of terrorism, which is threatening to break loose at any moment, but if we keep them occupied in Iraq, they can't kill us in the United States, and don't question that, because you don't understand these issues like Republican politicians in Washington do, but if instead of nobody getting killed, which is just what the terrorists would want to make us think that we could leave, when we really have to stay to keep them at bay, where was I, oh yeah, but if instead of nobody getting killed, we are having soldiers getting killed, then we have to stay so that the ones who got killed won't have died in vain.

That clear it up?

[K Gardner]

4. Precisely !

[gratuitous]

6. Ow

I think I sprained my brain on that one.

[K Gardner]

5. They all kinda conveniently forgot about those 9 coffins on the way home.

[bullwinkle428]

7. Whoopee!! A 5K run in Fallujah!!

I'm guessing people are running for their lives everyday in Fallujah...