Summary
If there were any questions why John McCain rejected the implicit offer to join John Kerry on a "national unity" ticket and why he has so enthusiastically embraced President Bush's bid for re-election, Mr. McCain resoundingly answered them in his Monday night speech at the Republican National Convention.
Addressing the prewar rationale for militarily changing the regime in Iraq and the subsequent fact that no weapons of mass destruction have since been found there, Mr. McCain asserted: "Whether or not Saddam possessed the terrible weapons he once had and used, free from international pressure and the threat of military action, he would have acquired them again. My friends, the central security concern of our time is to keep such devastating weapons beyond the reach of terrorists who can't be dissuaded from using them by the threat of mutual destruction. We couldn't afford the risk posed by an unconstrained Saddam in these dangerous times." Unlike the equivocating Democratic nominee, Mr. McCain declared that he "believe* as strongly today as ever [that] the mission was necessary, achievable and noble."See the full content of this document
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Straight-Talking John Mccain
Warning that "this war will become a much bigger thing" if "our enemies acquire for their arsenal the chemical, bio...
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