Holy smoke. And you thought it was bad when John McCain invoked 100 years in Iraq.

Here he is saying we could be there for 1,000 years:

As I mentioned yesterday, I simply don’t think either McCain nor his party realize that while this scores points with the belligerent O’Reilly generation, it’s winning them zero fans in the suburbs and exurbs where people are saying to themselves: He’s talking about my kids. He wants to send my kids to Iraq, and maybe Iran.

Meanwhile, our new embassy in Iraq is now open - the largest embassy complex in the world, 104 acres, 27 buildings, cost $740 million to build; ultimately to have room for 1,000 officials and soldiers and everyone else. And it will reportedly cost $2 billion per year to operate.

This is, for the record, almost as large as Vatican City.

This is our new police station in the Mideast. And after spending this much money - and given how absolutely important the black gold flowing beneath those Iraqi sands is - we may indeed be there for 1,000 years. Or more.