McCain Press Call: On John McCain And Iraq
June 11, 2008 | Permalink
[McCain Campaign Press Release/Conference Call from June 11, 2008]
Media Advisory
Conference Call On John McCain and IraqARLINGTON, VA — Today at 1:00 p.m. EDT, U.S. Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign will hold a press conference call with Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), Senator John Thune (R-SD), and senior foreign policy advisor Randy Scheunemann to set the record straight on John McCain’s comments on Iraq this morning.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
PRESS CONFERENCE CALLWHO: Senator Joseph Lieberman, (I-CT)
Senator John Thune, (R-SD)
Randy Scheunemann, Senior Foreign Policy Advisor, John McCain 2008WHAT: Press Conference Call
WHEN: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 at 1:00 p.m. EDT
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Whether we leave Iraq tomorrow or stay a hundred years in the end Maliki and Co. will be more allied with Iran than the USA, just as they’ve always been. A lot of these guys used to live in Tehren in exile. Iraq’s second biggest business is Iranian religious tourism.
If you want a government independent of Iran Sadr is your best bet. Even though he hates Americans he has said he’d be happy to hire our oil field service firms to pump Iraqi oil.
And what’s with the desperation to force US military bases down Iraqi throats? We already have bases in Afghanistan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and elsewhere. Why keep pushing for bases in Iraq when it gets our soldiers blown up and gives Bin Laden talking points in his recruiting videos?