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John McCain and the league of dunces
Oh this is rich. In a speech earlier today outlining his foreign policy positions John “INSANE” McCain is calling for a new “League of Democracies” to advance so called “western values” (bigotry, hatred, 100 to 10,000 years of glorious war in Iraq, etc. etc.) and also said he wants to explore a new free-trade agreement with the EU.
“We have to strengthen our global alliances as the core of a new global compact — a League of Democracies — that can harness the vast influence of the more than 100 democratic nations around the world to advance our values and defend our shared interests,” McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, told the Los Angeles World Affairs Council.
Such democracies include the European Union as well as India, Japan, Australia, Brazil, South Korea, South Africa, Turkey and Israel, McCain said.
“We cannot build an enduring peace based on freedom by ourselves, and we do not want to,” he said.
McCain also said the group of eight should be expanded to include Brazil and India, while excluding Russia.
“Rather than tolerate Russia’s nuclear blackmail or cyber attacks, western nations should make clear that the solidarity of NATO, from the Baltic to the Black Sea, is indivisible and that the organization’s doors remain open to all democracies committed to the defense of freedom,” McCain said.
Howard Dean responded to the inane speech from McCain by simply saying:
“[McCain's] empty rhetoric can’t change the fact that he has steadfastly stood with President Bush from day one and is now talking about keeping our troops in Iraq for 100 years.”
10,000 years in fact! Hooray for “western values!”
3 Comments »
How Insane Is John McCain? Says :
March 26, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Boy, you know what this world needs? Another irrelevant world organization to ignore.
Wait a minute Says :
July 23, 2008 at 6:21 pm
It is neither honest nor accurate to say that McCain called for 100 years of war in Iraq. No less a source than the Columbia Journalism Review has pointed out that this is a gross distortion of Sen. McCain’s statement Go back and read what he actually said:
“We’ve been in South Korea, we’ve been in Japan for sixty years. We’ve been in South Korea for fifty years or so. That’d be fine with me as long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed. Then it’s fine with me. I would hope it would be fine with you if we maintain a presence in a very volatile part of the world where Al Qaeda is training, recruiting, equipping and motivating people every single day.”
You may agree or disagree with his position, but have the honesty and the courage not to distort it.
Terry Carter Says :
July 23, 2008 at 6:29 pm
POINT BEING, we’d still be spending trillions of dollars on a war most Americans believe should have never been fought to begin with especially now given the ways things are starting to go in Afghanistan.
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