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USA Today
April 8, 2008
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Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Monday that calls from his Democratic rivals to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq demonstrate a "failure of leadership" because they are making promises they cannot keep.
Addressing the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Kansas City, Mo., McCain said last year's U.S. troop buildup brought a glimmer of "something approaching normal" to Iraq.
"To promise a withdrawal of our forces from Iraq regardless of the calamitous consequences to the Iraqi people, our most vital interests, and the future of the Middle East, is the height of irresponsibility," McCain said.
Democratic candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton have said they would start pulling U.S. troops from Iraq immediately for a complete withdrawal. Obama responded to McCain by saying that McCain has failed because of his support for "an open-ended occupation of Iraq." Clinton said, "McCain's Groundhog Day approach to Iraq means four more years of the Bush-Cheney-McCain policy."
The three candidates, all senators, will get the chance to restate their positions today at congressional hearings where Gen. David Petraeus will give lawmakers a progress report on Iraq.
April 8, 2008
Pg. 7
Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Monday that calls from his Democratic rivals to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq demonstrate a "failure of leadership" because they are making promises they cannot keep.
Addressing the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Kansas City, Mo., McCain said last year's U.S. troop buildup brought a glimmer of "something approaching normal" to Iraq.
"To promise a withdrawal of our forces from Iraq regardless of the calamitous consequences to the Iraqi people, our most vital interests, and the future of the Middle East, is the height of irresponsibility," McCain said.
Democratic candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton have said they would start pulling U.S. troops from Iraq immediately for a complete withdrawal. Obama responded to McCain by saying that McCain has failed because of his support for "an open-ended occupation of Iraq." Clinton said, "McCain's Groundhog Day approach to Iraq means four more years of the Bush-Cheney-McCain policy."
The three candidates, all senators, will get the chance to restate their positions today at congressional hearings where Gen. David Petraeus will give lawmakers a progress report on Iraq.