“I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a U.S. occupation of undetermined length,…”

This differs from McStain’s “100 year presence in Iraq” how, exactly?

The difference, Bobbski, is that Obama was speaking six months before we invaded Iraq anyway, five days after a speech by Bush first advancing the idea. He was saying why it was a, I believe the word was, “dumb” idea. McCain is proposing the 100-year presence now, even knowing what we know.

So Obama will end the war, ala Ike in Korea?

If the Iraqi adventure ended tomorrow do you seriously believe that we would have no military presence there say 12 months after?

Was the Iraq invasion ill conceived and executed? Yes but as easy as it was to get into the mess, it will be twice as difficult to extradite ourselves from it.

Just the way things are and I speak as one who stood with many others on a street corner in Tulsa, OK protesting the coming war even before The Precious gave his speech. And I was protesting it as a veteran as well.

Thank you for your service, Bobbski. You asked (I thought) how Obama warning — 100 percent correctly — about the outcome were we to invade Iraq was different from McCain’s contentment with both the original decision, which he supported, and with the idea that the occupation will last 100 years or more. Obama’s judgment proved better than McCain’s experience and I don’t think that was an anomaly.