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Title: McCain: I'd Have Been 'Reluctant' To Start Iraq War If I Won In 2000
Post by: 240 is Back on July 18, 2014, 09:59:31 PM
ource: TPM

By CATHERINE THOMPSON Published JULY 18, 2014, 8:55 AM EDT

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said Thursday that he probably would have hesitated to send U.S. troops into Iraq if he had been elected President in 2000.

“You’ll find this surprising, but I think I would’ve been more reluctant to commit American troops,” McCain told CNN’s Jake Tapper and National Journal's Ron Fournier at an event Thursday in Washington.

That does sound like a change of position in light of McCain's vote to authorize the use of force in Iraq and his vocal support of the 2007 troop surge. McCain also criticized the Obama administration last month for not leaving behind a residual force in 2011 that could have deterred Islamist militants who were taking over key Iraqi cities.

“I think I would have (voted the same way), but I think I would have challenged the evidence with greater scrutiny,” McCain explained, as quoted by CNN. “I think that with my background with the military and knowledge of national security with these issues that I hope that I would have been able to see through the evidence that was presented at the time.”

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Title: Re: McCain: I'd Have Been 'Reluctant' To Start Iraq War If I Won In 2000
Post by: SOMEPARTS on July 18, 2014, 10:18:10 PM
My ass...

This guy would blow the world up.
Title: Re: McCain: I'd Have Been 'Reluctant' To Start Iraq War If I Won In 2000
Post by: 24KT on July 19, 2014, 01:33:32 AM
Quote from: SOMEPARTS on July 18, 2014, 10:18:10 PM
My ass...

This guy would blow the world up.

 ;D
Title: Re: McCain: I'd Have Been 'Reluctant' To Start Iraq War If I Won In 2000
Post by: chadstallion on July 19, 2014, 04:03:11 PM
Quote from: SOMEPARTS on July 18, 2014, 10:18:10 PM
My ass...

This guy would blow the world up.
Grandpa Urine strikes again.
Title: Re: McCain: I'd Have Been 'Reluctant' To Start Iraq War If I Won In 2000
Post by: Skeletor on July 19, 2014, 06:30:20 PM
Quote from: chadstallion on July 19, 2014, 04:03:11 PM
Grandpa Urine strikes again.

LOL


McCain tries to top Reid for senility...