CJR, You Disappoint Me.

CJR:

Ever since John McCain said at a town hall meeting in January that he could see U.S. troops staying in Iraq for a hundred years, the Democrats have been trying to use the quote to paint the Arizona senator as a dangerous warmonger. And lately, Barack Obama in particular has stepped up his attacks on McCain’s “100 years” notion.

But in doing so, Obama is seriously misleading voters—if not outright lying to them—about exactly what McCain said. And some in the press are failing to call him on it. ...

It’s clear ... that McCain isn’t saying he’d support continuing the war for one hundred years, only that it might be necessary to keep troops there that long. That’s a very different thing. As he says, we’ve had troops in South Korea for over fifty years, but few people think that means we’re still fighting the Korean War.

Yes, McCain does say that -- and it's flabbergastingly retarded. Unless our troops in South Korea are getting sent home in body bags on a weekly basis, McCain's got no right to invoke the comparison.

So long as Americans and Iraqis keep dying, Obama can, and should, highlight McCain's idiocy as often as he likes.