1.0 link 120188 <![CDATA[Richard Clarke: "Quick Draw John" McCain Wanted War Before Bush Did]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/20/richard-clarke-quick-draw_n_120188.html The campaigns of Barack Obama and John McCain both held conference calls Wednesday afternoon to hammer each other on national security.

McCain's message came a bit muddled. His campaign's call -- which took as its focus the a new report that one of Obama's advisers spoke with Syria's foreign minister last month -- started out with a factual error and ended by cutting off a critical-sounding question from a journalist.

First, McCain surrogate Rudolph Giuliani mistakenly suggested that former Ambassador to...

]]> 2008-09-20T05:12:00-04:00