McCain: Congress Will Back Iraq Attack by 'Significant Majorities'

NewsMax ^ | 9/12/02 | Limbacher

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Sen. John McCain, R-Az., who's often been a thorn in the side of the Bush administration, has become one of the biggest boosters of the White House plan to attack Iraq, predicting Thursday that a resolution supporting the war will pass in both the House and Senate by "significant majorities."

"I want to assure you, if there was a vote, it would be (backed by) significant majorities in both houses," McCain told nationally syndicated radio host Sean Hannity.

McCain said winning the Iraq vote would give the administration crucial leverage with reluctant allies, explaining that it's "important for the president in dealing with foreign leaders and with the United Nations that he have this statement of support from the Congress and the people we represent."

The Arizona Republican said a vote on Iraq needed to take place before the November election, arguing that attempts by Democrats to delay it till January risk tying Bush's hands in the war on terror.

"I think we've got to try to force it," he told Hannity. "I think that Democrats are weighing the upside and the downside to resisting the call on the part of the president of the United States."

McCain said that many Democrats who voted against the Gulf War in 1991 have told him privately "that's the vote they regretted the most."

"Let's have a vote so that we can tell the world that the United States Congress backs the president of the United States in this clear and present danger to the United States," he said.

[The Vast Right Wing]

You go McCain, get on the T.V., get on Hardball, get on Larry King and start drumming up support.

[StopDemocratsDotCom]

he started doing this on Leno last night, as hell as Actor James Woods who bashed the LA Times editorial, anyone know who the writer is?, it was classic.

[TexasCajun]

..notice how quiet this Jerk has been over the last few weeks.

Had to figure out which way the wind was blowing first, ya know!

At least he's a little smarter than his side-kick Tommy D.

[RoseofTexas]

Let's hope so, cause some at the hill are getting wobblely! Hope he's 100% correct!

[The Vast Right Wing]

No, I don't think so. While McCain may be a liberal on domestic issues, he has always been a staunch patriot on foreign policy.

[The Vast Right Wing]

What did Woods say? The LA Times editorial board, they are really pathetic, cowards.

[austingirl]

This is the first right thing McCain has done in a long time.

[ex-snook]

Since McCain's Kristolized mind approves, Bush sure must be doing the right thing. (/ sarcasm)

[DoughtyOne]

Damn, if McBrainless is for it I'm going to have to dig a little deeper. I was all for it up until now.

[StopDemocratsDotCom]

it was classic, he said "I wanna show you something, and he took out the article from the times, he said "this is from the Liberal LA Times". Then he read a part of the article which stated that America should reflect on our past actions in order to understand the world and to heal our wounds because of 9-11, some crap like that. The he went on to say "if i knew this guy i would slap him, or punch him in the face or something like that.

[DoughtyOne]

I haven't had Leno on once since he made it his life's ambition to slander Linda Tripp every night. I use to like him but he took are of that.

[The Vast Right Wing]

I like that. He was refering to John Balzar.

[RightWhale]

Sometimes McCain is so far Left that he can't see even to the Center, but he knows votes. The only political card Daschle has [a full-time politician] is to try to delay the vote, and even he will vote for action on Iraq.

[StopDemocratsDotCom]

Did anyone see Clinton on Letterman, i only watched the first few minutes. When he came out he stood up like for 5 seconds like if people were standing up for him when in reality people were giving him a very low-key welcome. Then a few minutes later when he talked about the saxophone he said he loved to hang around the house and "blow away" the people in the audience started laughing and giggling for a couple secs, he is such a joke, even in liberal NY.

[StopDemocratsDotCom]

thanks for the name, i haven't read the Times since i got out of HS a few months ago and I tought it was maybe Robert Sheer

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Who thinks Dashole is intelligent?

[CWOJackson]

Well finally a voice from the democrats speaking up in support of the President.

[aristeides]

Did James Woods mention his personal encounter with the hijackers, on their test run on a plane a few weeks before 9/11?

[The Vast Right Wing]

Scheer is horrible to. In fact I would warn you to avoid the LA Slimes like the plague, but since you are now out of HS and officially an adult, you know that:)