Mccain Surge

McCain Backs Obama On Afghanistan But Cautions: We Aren't Winning

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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In a speech to a largely conservative audience on Wednesday, Sen. John McCain applauded President Obama's decision to add 17,000 troops to Afghanistan...

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Obama Tells McCain: War In Iraq Didn't Start In 2007

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

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A key moment in the debate, when Obama called McCain out on Iraq: Obama: So John, you like to pretend like the war started in 2007. You talk about th...

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Explosive GQ Piece: McCain Tried To Upend al-Maliki Government

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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An explosive piece in GQ Magazine alleges that in July 2007, John McCain urged President Bush to cut off its ties with the al-Maliki government in Ira...

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Obama Gets Surge Support From Kerry And Feingold

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Two of the Senate's most prominent war critics took to the defense of Barack Obama among withering criticism that his opposition to the surge was driv...

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Obama Accuses McCain Of Hiding Behind The Surge

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Continuing the campaign battles over issues of war and patriotism, Barack Obama accused John McCain of using the successes of the surge to hide the fa...

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McCain To Propose An "Economic Surge" For America

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 05.25.2011

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John McCain has famously admitted to a "lack of knowledge" about economics. So when he talks about the economy later today in Ohio, it appears he will...

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Dem Attack On McCain's Iraq Record: Is It Fair?

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Last week, the Democratic National Committee blasted out to reporters a memo of selected quotes designed to show the John McCain not only making unrea...

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McCain Offshore Drilling Battle Reminiscent Of Iraq Surge, Aide Says

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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An aide to John McCain synthesized the Senator's two favorite topics into one political thesis today: his support for off-shore drilling and his polic...

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McCain Denies Surge Gaffe Again

AP | TOM RAUM | Posted 05.25.2011

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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Republican presidential candidate John McCain had his own German experience Thursday _ at a restaurant in Ohio. He asserted tha...

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New Polls: An Unexpected Uptick for McCain

Daniel Nichanian | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yesterday's data delivers positives for McCain and reminds that, however much red states like North Carolina and Alaska may be shifting, Obama has a lot of ground to cover before November.

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McCain Makes False Claims On Iraq Timeline (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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In an interview with CBS News' Katie Couric tonight, John McCain made the false assertion that the Surge brought about the so-called Anbar Awakening. ...

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Mitt Romney: McCain Invented Counterinsurgency Doctrine

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tin-plated fraud-bot Mitt Romney, who would say just about anything to get the nomination, has been out recently demonstrating that he'd say just abou...

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In An Iraq-Related Hole, McCain Keeps On Digging

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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In politics, as in life, when one is in a hole, he or she should stop digging. This advice was not heeded by John McCain's campaign today. Both the Se...

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Many Arabs Fear McCain Would Continue Bush Policy

Reuters | Nadim Ladki | Posted 05.25.2011

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Arabs keen to see the end of George W. Bush's presidency fear that a win for likely Republican candidate John McCain will bring little change to U.S. ...

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McCain Surrogate: "Christian Right" A Serious Problem

Haaretz | Shmuel Rosner | Posted 05.25.2011

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The location keeps changing, and the speakers might be different as well, but the goal remains the same: courting the Jewish vote. Today, it was in Wa...

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