McCain Says Kerry&#39;s Anti-War Protests Open for Debate
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Republican US Senator John McCain said Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry&#39;s anti-war activities after he returned from Vietnam are an appropriate subject for political debate.
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Republican presidential front-runner John McCain attacked rival Mitt Romney on the sensitive issue of Iraq Saturday, as polls showed the two tightly matched.
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John McCain tried Saturday to play peacemaker again. The Republican said Democrat John Kerry was "unfair" when he criticized the GOP ticket as "unfit to lead the nation" and when he suggested that President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney avoided serving in Vietnam.
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NEW YORK - Sen. John McCain swept aside his long-running differences with President Bush on Monday and urged voters to re-elect him, offering a stout defense of Bush's decision to invade Iraq as the only way to keep that country from acquiring weapons of mass destruction...
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Republican angst over the war in Iraq may be helping fuel John McCain's rise as a top presidential contender, even though he has been the campaign's highest profile supporter of the unpopular conflict, according to surveys in early voting states and interviews with GOP pollsters.
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NEW YORK The debate over John Kerry&#39;s Vietnam War record showed no sign of abating Sunday as a member of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the group running advertisements attacking Kerry&#39;s record, denied involvement with the Republican Party.
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Republican Sen. John McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam, called an ad criticizing John Kerry's military service "dishonest and dishonorable" and urged the White House on Thursday to condemn it as well.
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BOSTON - John Kerry fought back Thursday against campaign allegations that he exaggerated his combat record in Vietnam, accusing President Bush of using a Republican front group "to do his dirty work" and challenging Bush to debate their wartime service records.   "Well, if he wants to have a debate about our service in Vietnam, here is my answer: Bring it on," said the Democratic presidential candidate, reviving an old war and campaign slogan amid strong urging from party leaders for him to respond to two-week-old GOP assertions...
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ST. LOUIS  - Presidential candidate John McCain urged skeptical conservatives on Friday to rally behind him and said he might clinch the Republican nomination in crucial "Super Tuesday" coast-to-coast voting.
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Sen. John McCain said Monday it was fair game to criticize Democrat John Kerry's anti-war protests three decades ago, firing an opening salvo as Republicans at their national convention sought to portray President Bush as a strong wartime leader.
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Republican presidential candidate John McCain, comparing the U.S. effort in Iraq to military campaigns like the Normandy invasion, said Saturday the current plan is the only decent option.
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Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., a supporter of President Bush and a friend of Sen. John Kerry, chastised the two candidates Friday for their superheated campaign rhetoric on Iraq and the war on terror.
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Top Republican presidential hopefuls staked out hawkish ground in a debate Wednesday as they defended US strategy in Iraq and clashed with the lone anti-war candidate who denounced the invasion of Iraq as &quot;illegal.&quot;
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Republican John McCain argued on Thursday that presidential rivals Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney lack the foreign policy experience to make the inevitable tough decisions of a wartime commander in chief.
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Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has been a firm supporter of the Iraq war and of President Bush's plan to send an additional 21,500 troops to Baghdad in the coming months. In comments at yesterday's confirmation hearing for Gen. George W. Casey Jr. to be the Army chief of staff, however, he expressed...
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Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry has launched one of his harshest broadsides against the Iraq war, drawing
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Divisions over Iraq extended to the presidential campaign during the Senate's all-night debate, with Republican John McCain steadfastly backing President Bush's war strategy as Democratic rivals demanded troop withdrawals.