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[Bush Is Right] Who needs the Iraq War when you’ve got the Democratic Convention?: McCain and the Republicans will be more than happy to have them. The Republicans will make a simple and compelling argument: why should Florida and Michigan voters trust the Democratic Party to look out for you when they won’t even listen to you.”
[Cafe Talk] John McCain: Worse Than Bush?: When asked if he had any major disagreements with Kristol and Kagan or their magazine, McCain's response was "I am sure there have been issues that we have disagreed on," he said, "but I think, generally speaking, I agree with and respect them enormously."[8] The March 2002 Economist discusses John McCain as the source of George Bush's foreign policy. The article is titled "George Bush: McCainiac - How the President has Almost Become the Man he Trounced in the Primaries" and goes on to say "It is almost as if the Arizona senator had won the election" and "Despite his defeat, he laid much of the groundwork for Mr Bush's post-September presidency."[22] A year later, just before the invasion of Iraq, when asked if Iraqis would treat Americans as liberators, McCain continued the pre-war spin, "Absolutely, absolutely." McCain insisted "Saddam Hussein is on a crash course to construct a nuclear weapon" and that "the interaction we know to have occurred between members of Al Qaeda and Saddam's regime may increasingly take the form of active cooperation to target the United States." McCain believed "regime change in Iraq" could result in "demand for self-determination" throughout the Middle East.[8]
[420 Magazine] One Small Step For Man, One Giant Leap For Libertarians: Even though the Iraq issue was one that because of its elements at the time, and now certainly also, caught people's attention, it simply caused them to take a harder look at Ron and recognize that there actually are a number of issues that he is very adept at and very knowledgeable about, even though it was Iraq that caught their attention. His notion of the artificiality of the current economic situation;
[The Seminal :: Independent Media and Politics] The Other McCain Doctrine: But Bai then explains that the intellectual history of the Republican Party breaks it into three groups””the isolationists, the realists, and the idealists””and then helps to burnish McCain’s “maverick” status by basically taking the Senator at his word when he infers that McCain’s views on military force don’t neatly fit into any camp (though Bai does write that he believes McCain to be closer to the idealists””those that would use military force to promote what they call democracy).
[Truth is Treason in the Empire of Lies] An Ocean Apart, Bush, McCain Play to Neocon Dreams: The absence of detail regarding how these goals will be accomplished drew mainly scorn from both Democrats and independent observers, with the former president of the influential Council on Foreign Relations, Leslie Gelb, describing McCain’s vision as “kind of a wild-eyed, unsupported prediction.”
[Political Forum] The Other McCain Doctrine: That former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey (who is quoted in the article dismissing the “McCain sees it differently because of his war experience” theory) was a hawk on Iraq, despite serving all of his time in Vietnam outside of a POW camp .
[GOPachy - All Discussions] Petraeus: Troops in Iraq help blunt Iran threat: When asked by the Senate panel whether a lengthy deployment in Iraq only strengthens Iran's influence in the region, Petraeus responded that the opposite was true. It "has the potential to counter malign Iranian influence against the government of Iraq, build common cause in the region and expose the extent of malign Iranian activities to the world," he wrote.
[Obama HQ] Morning News: He also traded barbs with McCain over ethics. "We need a president who sees the government not as a tool to enrich friends and high-priced lobbyists, but as the defender of fairness and opportunity for every American,"
[Docudharma - Front Page] Docudharma Times Thursday May 22: WASHINGTON - The Senate plans to vote Thursday on providing $165 billion to fund Pentagon operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, under a deal that likely would doom billions of dollars in domestic programs.
[dave's Blog] Fox News Investigation -This is the first in a three-part series ...: “Statement of Senator Clinton for the Congressional Record on Her Vote on the Nomination of Dr. Condoleezza Rice for Secretary of State,” Clinton.Senate.gov, Jan.
[Lobotero's Weblog] McCain, Obama Move Closer Together On Iraq: Obama, who is leading the race against Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination, has recently taken a more cautious approach to his pledge to pull out of Iraq within 16 months of taking office in January 2009.
[Everyone's Blog Posts - The Watchmen Magazine WM] Danger: Tough Talk & Wishful Thinking: “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,” McCain said. “The Iraq War has been won.
[2008 Presidential Campaign Blog] Transcript: Hillary Clinton Delivers Remarks At Louisville, KY ...: We are in this race because we believe it will take a Commander-in-Chief with the strength and knowledge to end the war in Iraq safely and quickly, and a president with experience representing the people of the United States in more than 80 countries to restore our leadership and moral authority in the world.
[mothanskin.blog-city.com] "Democrats Beware The Neocons!": He supports continuing the Iraq War, "the issue that is most clearly identified with the neoconservatives", but the New York Times reports that his foreign policy views combine elements of neoconservatism and the main competing view in conservative circles, pragmatism, also called realism: Among [McCain's advisors] are several prominent neoconservatives, including Robert Kagan...
[Jeff Emanuel online - The official website of the columnist, combat journalist, and commentator] Blumenthal: "Don’t run against McCain by painting him as Bush III ...: Bush has been punctilious in upholding our Constitution and I wish he could stop party politics from spending the millions that you slaver for, just to try to show how corrupt his administration is and convict Scooter Libby who patently had nothing to with outing Plame, which was not against the law in the first place but Nancy knew any Washington jury would convict him (and we citizens have to put up with such garbage). He uses this war to do the right thing and try to invoke wartime limitations on your sick ruminations about your rights when the enemy will bring down the Capitol building with a bit more of your help.
[Blogometer] 5/21: Math Wars: "I just asked John McCain about why he keeps talking about Obama's alleged willingness to talk to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has no power over Iranian foreign policy, rather than Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who does. He said that Ahmadinejad is the guy who represents Iran in international forums like the United Nations, which is a fair point.
[mothanskin.blog-city.com] "The Insurgent Republican Candidacy Of Ron Paul": They hope to demonstrate their disagreements with McCain vocally at the convention through platform fights and an attempt to get Paul a prominent speaking slot. Paul, who's running unopposed in his home Texas district for an 11th House term, still has some $5 million in war funds and has instructed his followers that their struggle is not about a single election, but a long-term revolution for control of the Republican Party.
[The Great Geno's Weblog] McCain’s Foreign (to Reason) Policy, Fun with Math: But where McCain’s statements turn from moronic to Iranic (get it?) is that he made them to illustrate the fact that negotiations with Iran should not be on the table, that the U.S. needs to take a hard line with the country and not engage in discussions which “would confer both international legitimacy on the Iranian president and could strengthen him domestically.”
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