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McCain: Obama's Plan Could 'Reverse' Progress in Iraq
Obama's Withdrawal Policy Could Lead to U.S. Fighting Wider War in Iraq, McCain SaysSen. John McCain warns that Sen. Barack Obama's troop withdrawal plan could reverse progress in Iraq, forcing Americans to return to Iraq to fight a wider war. "We have succeeded but it's still fragile. Sen. Obama's strategy could easily reverse all the hard fought gains we made," McCain told ABC News' David Wright on Wednesday in an interview that will air in part on "World News with Charles Gibson." "If we do what Sen. Obama wants us to do, we will risk having to come back and risk a wider war and defeat in the first major war since 9/11," McCain said. "and that could be, have, is fraught with consequences of the United States of America's security." McCain's comments come a day after the Republican presumptive nominee unveiled new, harsh language in his attacks on his Democratic rival for not supporting Presidenft Bush's 2007 troop "surge" policy in Iraq -- a policy advocated by McCain. The policy is credited in part with helping to reduce violence in Iraq in the last year. "I Was Right" on Iraq SurgeWho Will Be McCain's Second-In-Command?" I had the courage and the judgment to say I would rather lose a political campaign than lose a war. It seems to me that Obama would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign," McCain told a crowd of 400 Tuesday in Rochester, New Hampshire. Mccain repeated the line Wednesday at a campaign event in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Asked today whether he believes Obama would actually prefer losing in Iraq so that he could win the White House, McCain pointed to Obama's comments made to ABC News' Terry Moran Monday, in which he acknowledged that the surge succeeded in providing greater security, but that he stands by his original opposition to it. "I cannot believe that any objective observer can conclude that the surge did not work and is not succeeding," McCain told Wright." It has succeeded and it is and we are winning this war and we will come home with victory and with honor." "We are responsible for our records. I was right. Sen. Obama was wrong. So therefore, I think I have more credibility about what the future should be as opposed to Sen. Obama, who if he had had his way, we would very likely be involved in a wider war today if we had done what he wanted to do," McCain told Wright. Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC 2008-07-23 |
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