--continue to mire the US in Iraq and continure to fuel anit-American sentiment
--continue bankrupting the US treasury with more of Bushs economic policies.
--perpetuate the arrogant delusion that he, McC actually has a clue...
Who needs to fly any more airplanes into buildings?
DoreneC Seattle WA
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 3:37 PM, B. <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN1418633520080314?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
>
>
> McCain says al Qaeda might try to tip U.S. election
>
> By Steve Holland
> Fri Mar 14, 12:22 PM ET
>
> SPRINGFIELD, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Republican
> presidential candidate John McCain said on Friday he
> fears that al Qaeda or another extremist group might
> attempt spectacular attacks in Iraq to try to tilt the
> U.S. election against him.
>
> McCain, at a town hall meeting in this Philadelphia
> suburb, was asked if he had concerns that
> anti-American militants in Iraq might ratchet up their
> activities in Iraq to try to increase casualties in
> September or October and tip the November election
> against him.
>
> "Yes, I worry about it," McCain said. "And I know they
> pay attention because of the intercepts we have of
> their communications ... The hardest thing in warfare
> is to counter someone or a group of individuals who
> are willing to take their own lives in order to take
> others."
>
> At his campaign event and subsequent news conference,
> McCain also criticized U.S. Senate Republicans for not
> joining him and 28 other senators in a one-year
> moratorium on controversial spending projects, known
> as earmarks that benefit specific cities or towns and
> that McCain considers wasteful.
>
> The Arizona senator said it showed that his fellow
> Republicans were "not responding to the will of the
> people."
>
> The Senate on Thursday night voted 71-29 against the
> moratorium. McCain and Democratic presidential
> candidates Barack Obama, an Illinois senator, and
> Hillary Clinton, a New York senator, all voted for the
> legislation.
>
> McCain is a stalwart supporter of President George W.
> Bush's troop build-up in Iraq, while sharply critical
> of the way the war was managed until the increase, and
> his political fortunes have improved as casualties
> have declined in Iraq in recent months.
>
> He disagrees strongly with campaign pledges by Clinton
> and Obama to withdraw U.S. troops speedily if either
> of them are elected in November.
>
> McCain, soon to depart on a Middle East and Europe
> trip with two Senate colleagues, said recent deadly
> attacks in Iraq show that al Qaeda in Iraq is not
> defeated.
>
> He said is concerned "they might be able to carry out
> some spectacular suicide attacks but we do have them
> on the run."
>
> "We have achieved enormous success but they are still
> a very viable and tough enemy. There is no doubt in my
> mind that the surge is succeeding. Thank God for Gen.
> (David) Petraeus, one of the greatest generals in
> American history."
>
> (To read more about the U.S. political campaign, visit
> Reuters "Tales from the Trail: 2008" online at
> http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/
>
> (Editing by Alan Elsner)
>
>
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