German media for Obama?

It appears Germany's left-wing media machine is trying to ensure an Obama victory by spreading complete lies about Iraq. A German magazine reported Iraqi PM Nuri al-Maliki as saying "U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama talks about 16 months...That, we think, would be the right time frame for a withdrawal, with the possibility of slight changes." al-Maliki says that this quote is not what he said at all. Ali al-Dabbagh, a government spokesman, said that "the possibility of troop withdrawal was based on the continuance of security improvements, echoing statements that the White House made Friday after a meeting between al-Maliki and U.S. President Bush." (CNN) So, clearly Obama is the German media's (and no doubt all liberal medias') guy. I would just like to point out that no one, not even the president, want to see our troops in any combat situation for long periods of time. When John McCain says that we could see troops in Iraq for 100 years, he means (and has said time and time again) that we could see a military presence there. This is just like the presence of troops we still have in Germany, Japan, and South Korea. To think that we can simply leave Iraq in what General Petraeus has called "fragile stability" is just plain idiotic. So what happens after we leave (before both Iraqi leadership and our generals on the ground tell us to) and Iraq falls back into terrorist hands? We have to go back to save the innocent people of Iraq from a genocide. This means more civilian deaths and more of our brave soldiers' deaths. We can all point fingers as to why the whole thing began in the first place but the reality is that we are in the situation we see today. There is no doubt that the McCain troop surge strategy has worked and is working so that one day we could voluntarily leave a fully functional democratic republic in Iraq. This process will take time and I think we owe it to the future of Iraq and the future of a terrorism free Middle East to pursue this fight until the end.