I swear to God, at first I thought it was something from The Onion.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio - Republican John McCain declared for the first time
Thursday he believes the Iraq war can be won by 2013, although he
rejected suggestions that his talk of a timetable put him on the
same side as Democrats clamoring for full-scale troop withdrawals.
The Republican presidential contender, in a mystical speech that
also envisioned Osama bin Laden dead or captured, and Americans with
the choice of paying a simple flat tax or following their standard
1040 form, said only a small number of troops would remain in Iraq
by the end of a prospective first term because al-Qaida will have
been defeated and Iraq's government will be functioning on its own.
"By January 2013, America has welcomed home most of the servicemen
and women who have sacrificed terribly so that America might be
secure in her freedom. The Iraq War has been won," McCain told an
audience of several hundred here in the capital city of a general
election battleground state.