claim: "you know, sen. mccain said the other day that we might have troops (in iraq) for 100 years..."
author: hillary clinton
evidence_1: feb 15, 2008 ... washington (cnn) -- republican presidential front-runner sen. john mccain on thursday defended his statement that u.s. troops could spend "maybe 100" years in iraq -- saying he was referring to a military presence similar to what the nation already has in places like japan, germany and south ...
evidence_2: feb 6, 2013 ... incidentally, white house spokesman jay carney just last friday also made reference to this mccain statement. but he simply said, “at the time in 2008, as i recall, senator mccain suggested we might have troops in iraq for 100 years.” that's an appropriate way to refer to that remark. paul spokeswoman ...
evidence_3: you know, for example, it's been unfortunate that senator obama has consistently said that i would force people to have health care whether they could afford it or ..... and we are bogged down in a war that john mccain now suggests might go on for another 100 years, spending $12 billion a month that could be invested in ...
evidence_4: sub-sections under war & peace: global war on terror; iran; iraq war; vietnam; voting record; other issues under war & peace .... "it demonstrated to me that you really have to do, at the end of the day, what you fundamentally know is right," mccain said. mccain evidently sees his 1983 vote as the moment where his ...
evidence_5: get all the facts on history.com. ... in 1986, he began his long tenure as the u.s. senator from arizona, a position he holds to this day. ... did you know? if he had won the 2008 presidential race, john mccain would have become the oldest u.s. president in history at the age of 72. john sidney mccain iii was born on ...