Cynthia McKinney plans to have the Peace Corps massacred in Iraq . . .

Green Party presidential hopeful (and amateur boxer) Cynthia McKinney has explained her plans for Iraq.

Ironically, they look a lot like those of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, except that Cynthia apparently plans to provide for the amusement of the contending factions by giving them thousands of Peace Corps volunteers to behead.

This from Third Party Watch:

Q: Iraq policy?

McKinney: I would instruct the Joint Chiefs to draw up a plan for the orderly withdrawal of all U.S. troops from the country. I would dismantle our military bases in the area, and I would also demand that U.S. and other international corporations relinquish any claims to Iraqi oil or other resources and withdraw as well. I would encourage the Iraqi people to select their own leaders through the ballot box with assistance from the best minds in the universities region and in the world, in very much the same way that the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa was written. I would support the establishment of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to inaugurate a just peace and I would deploy a Peace Corps to the country that would work in concert with the reconstruction needs of the Iraqi people and their leadership.

I guess the good news is that it would give the mullahs something to do besides plot more attacks abroad.

Comments

Brian said…

This goes under the heading disaster in presidental campaigns.

March 10, 2008 at 11:08 AM

Anonymous said…

Cynthia McKinney is a racist thug in a clown suit. The only thing that makes it possible to take her seriously is the damage she could cause.

March 10, 2008 at 2:16 PM

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