while i appreciate the message youre trying to send about the war this quote was taken way out of context. just to play the devils advocate, here is an actual word for word transcript of that exchange:

Q: President Bush has talked about our staying in Iraq for 50 years — (cut off by McCain)

McCAIN: Make it a hundred.

Q: Is that … (cut off)

McCAIN: We’ve been in South Korea … we’ve been in Japan for 60 years. We’ve been in South Korea 50 years or so. That would be fine with me. As long as Americans …

Q: [tries to say something]

McCAIN: As long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed. 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.

Oh, trust me, I know the context of the comment. It was a good point, in all honesty, and he's right, we're still in Korea and Japan.

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The problem with the Korea/Japan/Germany argument is this: those countries did not continue CIVIL WARS for 50 more years. The conflicts ended. Permanent bases in Iraq will only make violence increase. We fought conventional armies in those wars. Fighting terrorists in the conventional mindset (like the republicans have been) is not going to win the hearts and minds of those whose lands we occupy.

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What happens when we pull out? Can Iraq just repair its weak government on the spot? No, it can't. If we leave Hezbollah and/or Iran can easily set-up a pawn leader and take control. Then gas shoots up, we have more trouble, and we become closer to another World War. Oh, and by the way, this May only 19 troops died compared to the 127 of last May. Nobody reported it. We are cracking down and no one seems to care because it is the style to hate the war.

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maybe part of the reason it's the style to hate the war is because there was absolutely no good reason for invading Iraq

-facepalm- Ok. Saddam invaded Kuwait. That was in the 60's or so. We pushed all the way back, but did not install a new leader. Saddam threatened us with weapons. We went back, and captured him. The reason Saddam said this was to basically make all the arab nations look up to him for standing up to a super power. So there.

Now I'm sure you're going to say this is a war for oil. If we wanted oil, we could've invaded Libya or Saudi Arabia. Plus, if it were, why are we not getting the oil? Gas prices are shooting up from OPEC having its grip on us.

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I never heard about threats in the 60s but to me that sounds irrelevant because it was 40 years ago. For a thirteen year old you seem to have invested a load of time in gathering info from multiple sources, but from what I've seen and heard (casually) is that Iraq hasn't had sufficient military funds with which to threaten the US since the Gulf War. In 2003/04 I'd pick up a TIME magazine and there'd be bar graphs "estimates" of Iraq's chemical weapons supplies. And then I'd watch a documentary later like "Control Room" or "Uncovered" and I'm told that all these charts and digitally re-created scenarios are false. To be honest I was always for the war in Iraq because at my young age back then I intuitively thought Saddam was somehow affiliated with the World Trade Center attacks. I could still believe that the war in Iraq is justifiable, it's just whenever I hear arguments from the opposite spectrum they're never as convincing because there's never any proof that Iraq had WMDs or chemical weapons. I'm not saying America should pull out of a country it just raped but I'm not saying that because "the surge is working" the insurgency makes sense in the first place.