RUSSERT: Go back, Senator, to 2002. The administration saying we would be greeting as liberators. John McCain saying that you thought success would be fairly easy.
MCCAIN: It was.
RUSSERT: In all honesty…
MCCAIN: It was easy, it was easy. I said the military operation would be easy. It was easy. We were greeted as liberators. And then there was a period of time…
CALLER: Being a veteran yourself, Mr. McCain, how do you feel about going to war a third time?
MCCAIN: I thank you for the question because that keeps me awake at night. Because I know that as successful as I believe we will be, and I believe that the success will be fairly easy, we will still lose some American young men or women. And that's a great tragedy.
