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To be fair, I think the context he meant about being there 100 years was more like South Korea, Okinawa, whatever. But he has surely not shown any desire to leave Iraq anytime soon, nor stated what would qualify enough as "victory" to say we are done.
Much more troubling is that he seems to not even know who the factions are in Iraq/Iran. Just this week on his campaign trip over there, he had to be corrected by Lieberman after he twice stated that Al-qaeda fighters were going into Iran to train and then returning to fight in Iraq. This is either just him being clueless that Iran doesn't support Sunnis like Al-qaeda, or it is a deliberate attempt to paint Iran with the scary Al-qaeda brush cause we need to attack them, and pronto. Cheney said it, so it must be true. And McCain seems to be perfectly willing to carry on with more "success" a la Bush/Cheney.
Also consider that when McCain has been asked questions about the economy, he doesn't seem too solid:
"I'm going to be honest, I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated." (3years ago)
"The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should." (late last year)
It doesn't seem like he educated himself much in those 3 years.
He has had other episodes where he was quoted telling a reporter that he'd have to get back to them to give his views on a fairly common topic he was asked about. Now, I know presidenting is hard, but it kinda seems like you ought to have your platform ready and be able to remember what it is...
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