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Friday, March 28, 2008
Charles Krauthammer :: Townhall.com Columnist
McCain's "Hundred Year War"?
by Charles Krauthammer
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-- "We are bogged down in a war that John McCain now suggests might go on for another 100 years" (Obama, Feb. 26).

-- "He's (McCain) willing to keep this war going for 100 years" (Hillary Clinton, March 17).

-- "What date between now and the election in November will he (McCain) drop this promise of a 100-year war in Iraq?" (Chris Matthews, March 4).

Why, even a CNN anchor (Rick Sanchez) buys it: "John McCain is telling us ... that we need to win even if it takes 100 years" (March 16).

As Lenin is said to have said: "A lie told often enough becomes truth." And as this lie passes into truth, the Democrats are ready to deploy it "as the linchpin of an effort to turn McCain's national security credentials against him," reports David Paul Kuhn of Politico.

Hence: A Howard Dean fundraising letter charging McCain with seeking "an endless war in Iraq." And a Democratic National Committee press release in which Dean asserts: "McCain's strategy is a war without end. ... Elect John McCain and get 100 years in Iraq."

The Annenberg Political Fact Check, a nonprofit and nonpartisan project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, says: "It's a rank falsehood for the DNC to accuse McCain of wanting to wage 'endless war' based on his support for a presence in Iraq something like the U.S. role in South Korea."

The Democrats are undeterred. "It's seldom you get such a clean shot," a senior Obama adviser told Politico. It's seldom that you see such a dirty lie.

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Charles Krauthammer is a 1987 Pulitzer Prize winner, 1984 National Magazine Award winner, and a columnist for The Washington Post since 1985.

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Reply # 1
Date: Apr 1, 2008 - 3:48 AM EST
To Steve...
Reagan had a similar insight, which informed his presidency. He writes somewhere about his days as a life-guard... how every person he ever rescued, when approaching him on the street, would invariably cross over to the other side, to avoid encountering him.
"Trust, but verify!"
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Reply # 2
Date: Apr 1, 2008 - 12:50 AM EST
100 years: Deadline given US by Islam

Thanks to Mr. Krauthammer for tackling this remark head-on as it passes into lies.

The “100 years” remark about Iraq by John McCain was a general warning to jihadis testing American resolve in fighting terrorism. It seems like it could have been reality given the determination of those who aim to destroy Iraq. But we know the surge in Iraq has proved to be successful and Iraqi troops continue to train more successfully.

The way I see it is what may have motivated John McCain’s remark specifically of “100 years” is the ever-present recognition of the deadline that Islamic leaders have set for America and the world. Several Muslim leaders (at least ones that we know of) have predicted that America and/or the world would become Islamic within 100 years.

Note how long ago the following quotes were made:

The executive director of the American Muslim Council, Abdulrahman Alamoudi, told fellow Muslims in 1996 that the United States “will become a Muslim country, even if it takes 100 years.”

Author Serge Trifkovic has written, “The first imam to deliver a Muslim prayer for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1991, declared in 1997 that Muslims will eventually elect the president and replace the constitutional government with an Islamic caliphate.”

The CAIR co-founder Omar Ahmad announced in 1998, "Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith but to become dominant," The Quran should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth."

In 1993 the Jemaah Islamiah spiritual leader Abu Bakar Bashir preached in Sydney, "The Islamic faithful in Australia must endeavour to bring about an Islamic state in Australia, even if it is 100 years from now," he told the gathering.

John McCain’s long-time military expertise demands he not ignore this 100-year Islamic deadline threat. And neither should we citizens.

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