McCain withholds approval of Rumsfeld
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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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Sen. John McCain visited a plant that makes armored vehicles for Iraq and Afghanistan, dropped by a polling place and hoped to relax at the movies with his wife, Cindy, on a rainy South Carolina Republican primary day. But he never got the chance.
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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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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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John McCain has received the unexpected endorsement of his previously bitter rival
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Sen. John McCain blasted a report in the Washington Post that said the Arizona Republican, who has campaigned against the use of "soft money," is using just those kinds of funds to support his GOP presidential nomination.
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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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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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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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Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Thursday he would support the GOP nominee and not launch an independent bid, no matter who wins.
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Leading Republican White House hopeful John McCain will not travel overseas on a swing that was to have included talks with Prime Minister Gordon Brown, the US senator's office said Wednesday.
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McCain's favorability has dropped below 50 percent for the first time since 1999, presumably over his support for the Iraq war.
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US Senator John McCain, a leading member of the Republican Party, said he prefers not to be a part of President George W. Bush's new administration, though he helped Bush campaign for re-election.
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WASHINGTON, Dec 17  - For the third time this week, the White House on Friday expressed support for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in the face of criticisms from several prominent Republicans.
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Republican John McCain tried to lump Mitt Romney with Democrats who want a timetable for pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq.
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The continuing debate among Republicans over whether Donald H. Rumsfeld should remain as defense secretary grew more fractious on Sunday, as two prominent senators
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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.