Today in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, outside of Philadelphia, John McCain said that if he had it to do all over again, and even knowing then what we know now, that Iraq did not have any WMD, he would STILL have invaded Iraq.
This is an incredible statement, and demonstrates beyond dispute Wesley Clark's observation that McCain lacks the judgment to be President or Commander-In-Chief. It is also, of course, a position which is strongly rejected by the majority of the American public, who correctly view the Iraqi invasion as a catastrophic mistake.
Barack Obama and every Democratic surrogate should be on the news 24/7, for the indefinite future, talking about McCain's position.
Here is part of the report of Brian Scheid of the Bucks County Courier Times (the full story is available at http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/113-07012008-1556942.html):
By BRIAN SCHEID
Bucks County Courier TimesSen. John McCain said that he is willing to stake his presidential campaign, as well as his political career, on his support for the war in Iraq.
In an interview with reporters on the back of his campaign bus, the "Straight Talk Express" Monday afternoon, McCain said that even in retrospect he would still have voted to authorize the war, as he did in 2002.
"I think there's no question," said the Republican's likely presidential nominee. "I owe too much to these young people who are serving there to let political considerations interfere with what I know is right.
"I believe the American people, over time, will side with me, but if they don't I'll accept that," he said. "I'd much rather lose a political campaign than lose a war."
A Time magazine poll released last week found that 57 percent of Americans felt that America was wrong to go to war with Iraq. A Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll released two days earlier found that 67 percent of Americans believed that the situation in Iraq was not worth going to war for.
While McCain acknowledged that there was "a massive, colossal intelligence failure" that led up to the invasion of Iraq, he said that other countries had gathered the same, false intelligence about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. He said that even with that faulty intelligence he felt the war was justified since Saddam Hussein had twice used weapons of mass destruction, broken international sanctions and was "a threat" to the United States. McCain said that conditions in Iraq would have gotten much worse if Hussein's regime had continued.
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