McCain defiant as Iraq fires early 2008 US vote talk
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As Americans wonder when the troops will come home from Iraq, Republican White House hopeful John McCain is laying his first big bet of the 2008 campaign: demanding more soldiers for the war.
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FORT MYERS, Florida  - The Iraq war took center stage in the Republican race for the White House on Saturday as front-runner John McCain accused rival Mitt Romney of backing a timetable to pull U.S. troops out -- a charge Romney angrily denied.
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Sen. John McCain said on Wednesday that he will be a candidate for president in 2008 and plans a formal announcement in April.
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MUNICH, Germany  - Senator John McCain, a Republican contender for the White House in 2008, chastised Europe on Saturday for failing to supply the troops and money to win in Afghanistan and said NATO's future was at stake.
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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., 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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John McCain accused Mitt Romney of wanting to withdraw troops from Iraq, drawing immediate protest from his Republican presidential rival who said: "That's simply wrong and it's dishonest, and he should apologize."
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Maverick US Republican Senator John McCain, who ran against President George W. Bush four years ago, indicated he might be considering another presidential bid in 2008, despite the fact he will be 72 when the next election rolls around.
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Sen. John McCain, the straight-talking Republican who often challenges the GOP establishment, has taken on a headline-grabbing issue &#151; steroids in baseball &#151; and generated talk of a presidential bid in 2008.
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ABOARD THE STRAIGHT  TALK EXPRESS, Jan. 7  The New Hampshire polls open in less than 24 hours, and John McCain is veering dangerously off message. In another one of his anything-goes bus sessions with reporters, he's been discussing everything from the Ohio State-LSU game to Eisenhower's 1952 cam...
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WASHINGTON Senator John McCain is attacking the Pentagon&#39;s approach to the war in Iraq, saying it&#39;s letting militants take the initiative.
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White House hopeful John McCain on Saturday called on Republican rival Mike Huckabee to end push polling in New Hampshire tied to his presidential campaign's supporters, but Huckabee denied any involvement.
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Republican presidential candidate John McCain, who remarried one month after his 1980 divorce, said Friday that the personal lives of White House hopefuls shouldn't become an issue in the 2008 campaign.
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Republican presidential hopeful John McCain, a staunch supporter of sending more troops to Iraq, will skip a Senate vote on the war Saturday to campaign in Iowa while other candidates rearrange their schedules.
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Dismissing dire  forecasts of his political future, Republican presidential  contender John McCain promised on Saturday to mount a comeback  by taking his campaign directly to voters in the states that  kick off the 2008 race.
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WASHINGTON Senator John McCain declined on Sunday to endorse the leadership of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and questioned whether the planned increase in US forces in Iraq would provide enough security for the country&#39;s elections on Jan. 30.
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NEW YORK Aug. 30, 2004 - Sen. John McCain said Monday it was fair game to criticize Democrat John Kerry&#39;s anti-war protests three decades ago, firing an opening salvo as Republicans at their national convention