McCain says Iraq could end his career
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Republican presidential hopeful John McCain said Friday that British Prime Minister Tony Blair has sacrificed his career to support the Iraq war, and the Arizona senator acknowledged that he could face the same fate.
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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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Republican John McCain will aggressively try to sell support for the unpopular Iraq conflict &#151; and his weakened presidential candidacy &#151; in a September push that will emphasize his war-hero biography and his credentials to be commander in chief.
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Recalling his military past may be key to John McCain's political future.
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John McCain has a day job &#151; and it may make getting a promotion all the more difficult.
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Sen. John McCain said Thursday that America should to deploy 15,000 to 30,000 more troops to Iraq to control its sectarian violence, and give moderate Iraqi politicians the stability they need to take the country in the right direction.
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Republican Sen. John McCain, a staunch defender of the Iraq war, on Tuesday faulted the Bush administration for misleading Americans into believing the conflict would be "some kind of day at the beach."
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Gen. David Petraeus' high-profile report on Iraq is pumping new life into Sen. John McCain's presidential bid, his backers say, making the Arizona Republican appear prescient and courageous on the campaign's most vital issue.
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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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Top Republican Senator John McCain calls for more US troops to be sent to Iraq to stabilise the country.
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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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CONCORD, N.H., July 13 -- Sen. John McCain of Arizona vowed Friday not to let a dramatic staff shake-up or a shortage of funds deter his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, and he signaled no slackening in his support for the troop surge strategy in Iraq, accusing his Democratic rival...
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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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That Ã¢ÂÂglass is half fullÃ¢ÂÂ outlook that John McCain asserts for the war in Iraq is how the Arizona senator needs the political world to view his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.
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Republican presidential  candidate John McCain hit the road on Friday to rejuvenate his  limping campaign but clung to the theme that helped get him in  trouble -- his support for President George W. Bush&#39;s  politically unpopular strategy in Iraq.
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Republican Sen. John McCain on Thursday became the second presidential contender to back away from saying the war in Iraq had "wasted" the lives of U.S. troops.
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John McCain dismissed the notion Thursday that he would drop out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination because he's lagging in fundraising and trailing in polls.