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[Paris Parfait] McCain follows in Bush's footsteps, advocating war without end: At the 2004 Republican National Convention, McCain said that while weapons of mass destruction were not found, Saddam Hussein once had them and "he would have acquired them again." McCain said the mission in Iraq "gave hope to people long oppressed" and it was "necessary, achievable and noble." He praised Bush for "his determination to undertake it and for his unflagging resolve to see it through to a just end." "I think the president has led with great clarity and I think he's done a great job leading the country..." McCain said on April 23, 2003 on <em>Hardball, MSNBC.
[Rose] Now I'm even scareder...: McCain argued Saddam was "a threat of the first order." Senator McCain said that a policy of containing Iraq to blunt its weapons of mass destruction program is "unsustainable, ineffective, unworkable and dangerous." McCain: "I believe Iraq is a threat of the first order, and only a change of regime will make Iraq a state that does not threaten us and others, and where liberated people assume the rights and responsibilities of freedom." [Speech to the Center for Strategic & International Studies, 2/13/03]
[Informed Comment] Iraq in the Democratic Debate: It was part of the reason that I think it was such a profound strategic error for us to go into this war in the first place -- (applause) -- and that's one of the reasons why I think I will be -- just to -- to -- just to finish up this point, I think I will be the Democrat who will be most effective in going up against a John McCain -- or any other Republican, because they all want basically a continuation of George Bush's policies -- because I will offer a clear contrast as somebody who never supported this war, thought it was a bad idea. I don't want to just end the war, but I want to end the mind-set that got us into war in the first place.
[New Republican Party Blog] Let’s Unite and Make Sure It’s A McCain/Romney Ticket!: The United States cannot afford (literally) to place the reigns of power in the hands of a man or woman who will run the white flag up in Iraq and other fronts in the Global War on Terror. If either Obama or Hillary cut and run from this war, you can rest assured their successor will be forced to send many more of your sons and daughters to fight the same battles again - this time at a much higher cost which will be measured in blood.
[schotline Press Releases] JOHN MCCAIN 2008 LAUNCHES NEW TELEVISION AD: “TRUE CONSERVATIVE”: “John McCain has spent a lifetime standing up for human rights around the world, including a consistent 24-year pro-life record of protecting the rights of the unborn. John McCain alone has the courage, leadership and character to lead our party to victory in 2008 while keeping faith with our most cherished values —
[Cliff Schecter] Democratic debate liveblogging: Iraq: John McCain's 100 years remark. Lack of understanding that there are more threats: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Latin America, China is strengthening...we're spending $ on Iraq.
[Los Angeles County] MTP: John McCain interview by Russert, with a bit of spin on the end: I'm talking specifically about a number of issues, but in the specific case, in the case of whether we should have maintained the surge in Iraq and whether, at the--April of 2007, when we had a choice between doing the surge when things were at their lowest, when Republicans and the Democrats were saying that we've got to withdraw, we have to have, "timetables." Timetables was the buzzword at that time, and there were--and it was a defining moment. It was the low point in my political career.
[Kautzman's AP GO PO Blog] CE Week #2: “The Phoenix - The Resurrection of John McCain”: Railing against McCain and Huckabee, both of whom he views as anathema to conservatives, talk-radio kingpin Rush Limbaugh recently warned his 13.5 million listeners, “If either of these two guys gets the nomination, it’s going to destroy the Republican Party.” A few days later, Limbaugh was so outraged by the possibility that Republicans might support McCain that he bellowed, “If you Republicans don’t mind McCain’s positions, then what is it about Hillary’s positions you dislike?
[Media Matters for America] Wash. Post glossed over McCain's deception on lack of "economic ...: John McCain (Ariz.) offers rock-solid fealty to President Bush's Iraq war policy but more than hints at creating a new spirit of cooperation with Democrats on global warming, health-care policy, illegal immigration, ethics and lobbying .
[Beep's Blog] Neck and neck: McCain is all for the war, but never mentions how the parents of dead or wounded soldiers might feel having sacrificed for what looks to be a terrible result; Iraq is a truly horrific place today despite the deposition of Saddam Hussain and, thanks to the war, Iraqi citizens and the rest of the world can now blame us for the conditions there.
[tramadolplus blog] Transcript of Thursday’s Democratic presidential debate: He has taken the view that I find absolutely indefensible, that he doesn’t have to bring any such agreement about permanent bases, about ongoing occupation. And if Senator McCain is the nominee, 100 years as stretching forward, he doesn’t have to bring that to the United States Congress.
[Campaign 2008 Blog - The Candidates and the World] Morning Update: Gentler Sparring on Iraq: Clinton also had to explain her vote against the 2002 Levin amendment that would have required President Bush to report to Congress on the UN weapons inspections in Iraq before taking military action. She said the amendment “suggested that the United States would subordinate whatever our judgment might be going forward to the United Nations Security Council.”
[Radical Left] The Real McCain: Bush on Steroids [Clips]: This seems counter-intuitive, at first, especially when one considers that McCain is the candidate of the so-called "surge" and has always been among the biggest warmongers on the block - not only when it comes to Iraq, but even regarding interventions that Republicans opposed, such as in Kosovo.
[ReidBlog] George W. McCain?: Anyway, what if John McCain decides that the only way to win the White House is to promise to give the Limbaugh-Ingram-Gingrich axis everything they want -- permanent, deep personal and corporate tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans (in other words, them...) an end to talk of global warming, clearing the way for Big Oil to drill into every square inch of undeveloped soil across this country, consequences be damned .the abandonment of government regulation of coal mining, foresting and anything else that rapes the natural landscape while sapping the health of the human beings who labor to extract the resources .
[Radical Left] "Bomber" McCain" - Armageddon Man: "A nation-building project launched in the confident expectation that the United States would repeat in Iraq the successes it had achieved in Germany and Japan after 1945 instead compares unfavorably with the U.S. response to Hurricane Katrina."
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