McCain Sets Timeline for Iraq Withdrawal
By Holly Yeager
05/15/2008
09:48AM
John McCain is in the magical mystical state of Ohio today, and he's looking ahead to what he plans on accomplishing in his first term in the White House.
Interestingly, despite his consistent refusal in the past to set a timeline for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, he is telling his swing-state audience something a little different.
From The Washington Post's preview:
Sen. John McCain will pledge today that most American troops will return home from Iraq by 2013 if he is elected president, a position that closely resembles the promises made by both of his potential Democratic rivals.
For more on the future according to McCain, check out this ad, also out Thursday. Spoiler alert: there's a kid with a camel -- and a mushroom cloud.
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I guess we’ll just have to re-elect him in 2012, huh?
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McCain:
“And I believe that the success will be fairly easy” and “There’s no doubt in my mind that… we will be welcomed as liberators.” [CNN, Larry King Live, 9/24/02. MSNBC, Hardball, 3/24/03]
“I think we could go in with much smaller numbers than we had to do in the past… I don’t believe it’s going to be nearly the size and scope that it was in 1991.” [Face the Nation, 9/15/02]
“There’s not a history of clashes that are violent between Sunnis and Shias. So I think they can probably get along.” [MSNBC Hardball, 4/23/03]
When McCain was asked “at what point will America be able to say the war was won?” He responded, ”…it’s clear that the end is, is, is very much in sight.” [ABC, “Good Morning America,” 4/9/03]
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