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| Buchanan: 'President McCain' Would Launch Iran War | |
| 2008-01-31 | |
| Conservative Pat Buchanan during an on-air interview said that a war with Iran would be in the near future should Republican candidate Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) be elected president in 2008. The comment came during an interview with MSNBC's Joe Scarborough about a recent comment McCain made saying more wars were inevitable. "You get John McCain in the White House, and I do believe we will be at war with Iran," Buchanan said. The comment was based on McCain's statements made Sunday to a crowd of supporters. "There's going to be other wars," the Huffington Post quoted McCain. "I'm sorry to tell you, there's going to be other wars. We will never surrender but there will be other wars." "That's one of the things that makes me very nervous about him," Buchanan said. "There's no doubt John McCain going to be a war president... his whole career is wrapped up in the military, national security." "He's in Putin's face, he's threatening the Iranians, we're going to be in Iraq a hundred years," Buchanan added. Elaborating that McCain's statements only meant that he was expecting more wars and not starting them, Buchanan described McCain as "talking sraight" and, based on his foreign policy, "he's in everybody's face." Buchanan says that like it's a bad thing. But then again, Pat is probably still unhappy that the US involved itself in that silly war in '41. "Isolationism would have been so much better."
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| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #10 The psychology behind McCain--if he holds a war, no one will EVER look into his betrayal of men in Vietnam. He's played the POW thing to the hilt, so this is all that's left. Then he can finally feel safe. Personally, I'd rather have the Mormie guy. |
| Posted by: ex-lib 2008-01-31 23:13 |
| #9 "He's in Putin's face, he's threatening the Iranians, we're going to be in Iraq a hundred years," Buchanan added. At least the world will not have to listen to Buchanan for "100 years." |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-01-31 21:29 |
| #8 ABM - Anyone (repuglicon) But McCain. I wouldn't trust him to change a light bulb, and certainly NEVER a fuse. |
| Posted by: Nuclear Weapons Commander 2008-01-31 21:11 |
| #7 MILITARY.com > REPORT: [US] MILITARY UNPREPARED FOR MAJOR ATTACK [On AMERICA = CONUS]. Be it a Chemical, Biological, or Nuke-Radioactive "incident". In particular, US NATIONAL GUARD AND RESERVES DO NOT HAVE THE MANPOWER OR EQUIPMENT LEVELS FOR EFFECTIVE RESPONSE. See also HAARETZ > LEBANON: WINOGRAD REPORT SETS SCENE FOR FUTURE WAR, + WND > Pals. Islamists response to Winograd Report - argue WINOGRAD shows ISRAEL/ZIONIST CAN BE DEFEATED OR DESTROYED, plus Paleos do not need outside help to kill Israel iff have the will and dedic of the Hizzies = Hezzies. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-01-31 19:45 |
| #6 "'President McCain' Would Launch Iran War" Huh. First good reason I've heard to vote for McCain (other than to prevent Commissar Billary from leading our nation down the drain). |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-01-31 19:09 |
| #5 OK: Romney for President, McCain for VP (with focus on WOT) or Secretary of Defense. |
| Posted by: gorb 2008-01-31 15:55 |
| #4 The WOT is the only thing I trust McCain would do very well. Everything else would be as good as a spunksicle pop. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2008-01-31 14:30 |
| #3 Pat Buchanan came out against The Maverick? My comfort level with McCain just went up half a notch. Buchana is anti-Israel, pro-surrender, and all in favor of populist economics over the free market. If he could just bring himself to say that while he's "personally opposed to abortion", he nevertheless "supports a woman's legal right to choose" he'd be Democrat enough to wrangle a sub-cabinet spot in the Hilbama administration. |
| Posted by: Mike 2008-01-31 13:13 |
| #2 Buchanan would probably encourage Iran to go ahead and wipe Israel off the map. That being said, this is another reason why Bush should deal with Iran before leaving office. Hillary would sit and do nothing while Iran goes nuclear. But I wouldn't trust McCain to handle it either. I wouldn't trust McCain with much of anything. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2008-01-31 12:21 |
| #1 The WOT is the only thing I think McCain is right about. He's pretty much wrong everywhere else. This is not because Pat Buchanan hates him, but because he was right about more boots on the ground in Iraq. (I just don't think he has the political balls to have actually put them there that Bush has. I think someone said here that he has physical courage, but no political courage.) I intend to vote for Romney before McCain but I will vote for McCain in the face of the Democratic nominee, who will be, regardless of race or gender, wrong on EVERYTHING. Nevertheless, there will be a narrow window in which we will be able to save the Republic after a McCain Presidency. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2008-01-31 11:50 |