"McCain says we should win in Iraq by 2013.   So we got that going for us.  Which is nice." 

Breaking News:

Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio - John McCain, looking through a crystal ball to 2013 and the end of a prospective first term, sees "spasmodic" but reduced violence in Iraq and Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden dead or captured and government spending curbed by his ready veto pen.

Senator McCain's extended timetable is poignant news for these guys:



Eighth graders.  War in Iraq through 2013 means that these kids will get their chance to patrol hostile streets, disarm booby traps and expose themselves to sniper fire in Bush and McCain's war of choice. 

With all the sensitivity that Senator McCain has shown this election season, he has quickly become the Judge Smails of American politics: