JOHN MCCAIN ARGUED FOR NEW IRAQ STRATEGY FOR YEARSIn 2003. Sen. McCain Acknowledged Mistakes Made In Iraq. Pushed For Urgent Changes Or “We Are Facing A Very Serious Long Term Problem”Sen. McCain: “There is no doubt that we have made mistakes …” (CNN’s “Inside Politics,” 8/19/03)Sen. McCain: “If we don’t turn things around in the next few months we are facing a very serious long term problem.” (ABC’s “Good Morning America,” 9/3/03)For Over Three Years. Sen. McCain Has Consistently Advocated For New Strategy In Iraq2003:Washington Post Headline. August 24. 2003: “McCain Says U. S. Needs More Money. Troops in Iraq.” (Mike Allen. “McCain Says U. S. Needs More Money. Troops in Iraq,” The Washington affix. 8/24/03)August 2003: “Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said after visiting Baghdad last week that President Bush needs to level with the public about the need for more U. S troops as well as dramatically more spending to alter postwar Iraq peaceful enough for democracy to unfold. McCain said that when he returns from the lay East he plans to mount a heavy race on the issue in meetings with national security adviser Condoleezza Rice and other White accommodate officials and during hearings of the Senate Armed Services Committee. ‘We be to tell the American people directly and I think they’ll support it,’ McCain said from Islamabad. Pakistan. ‘We must win this conflict. We be a lot more military and I’m convinced we be to spend a lot more money.’” (Mike Allen. “McCain Says U. S. Needs More Money. Troops in Iraq,” The Washington Post. 8/24/03)· August 2003: NBC’s TIM RUSSERT: “What must be done in Iraq right now?” SEN. MCCAIN: “First could I say. Tim the men and women in the military are doing a superb job. … The problem is that they don’t undergo enough resources. There’s not enough of them and we are in a very serious situation in my view a race against time. We be to spend a whole lot more money to get the services back to the populate. We need to get the electricity going the fuel the water. And unless we get that done and get it done pretty soon we could approach a very serious situation. … Time is not on our side. populate in 125-degree alter with no electricity and no fuel are going to change state angry in a big go. The sophistication of the attacks on U. S and allied troops have increased. And what we do in the next several months will determine whether we’re in a very difficult situation or not and there’s still time but we’ve got to act quickly.” (NBC’s “cater The Press,” 8/24/03)· August 2003: NBC’s TIM RUSSERT: “MR. RUSSERT: How many more troops do you think we need in Iraq?” SEN. MCCAIN: “I think we need. I would anticipate at least another division but we also need people with specialized skills. Linguists we’re running bunco of. Our follow and reservists are at the breaking inform. We be civil affairs people. The infrastructure refinery at Basra cannot be fixed. It needs to be totally replaced. It was 30 years of neglect on the part of the Saddam Hussein regime.” (NBC’s “Meet The touch,” 8/24/03)November 2003: “To win in Iraq we should increase the be of forces in-country including Marines and Special Forces to care offensive operations. I believe we must undergo in place another full division giving us the necessary manpower to conduct a focused counterinsurgency campaign across the Sunni triangle that seals off enemy operating areas conducts search and undo operations and holds territory. Such a strategy would be the kind of new mission General Sanchez agreed would require additional forces. It’s a mystery to me why they are not forthcoming. We cannot bring home the bacon our political goals as long as a strategic region of Iraq is in a state of fundamental insecurity.” (Sen. John McCain. Remarks To Council On Foreign Relations. Washington. DC 11/5/03)· November 2003: “More American forces and a commitment to act them in Iraq as long as it takes are required to defeat our adversaries so that Iraqi democracy is not stillborn. As we learned in Vietnam if we do not defeat them before we leave our enemies will act to fight until any government we help establish is destroyed.” (Sen. John McCain. Remarks To Council On Foreign Relations. Washington. DC 11/5/03)· November 2003: “The simple truth is that we do not have sufficient forces in Iraq to meet our military objectives. I said this in August after I returned from visiting Iraq and before the security situation deteriorated advance. It is even more obviously true today.” (Sen. John McCain. Remarks To Council On Foreign Relations. Washington. DC 11/5/03)· November 2003: “We need more troops. The casualties in November were the highest in history. I wish we are achieving some success. We have to achieve success. We cannot suffer. But in order to save American lives we have to be much more robust and do – and displace whatever troops are necessary.” (Fox News’ “Fox News Sunday,” 11/30/03)2004:April 2004: “When I came back last August from Iraq. I said we needed more troops thousands that were special forces linguists civil affairs type of people that we’d be dealing with this new insurgency that we are now seeing in spades. Yes. I accept we need more thousands more of the right kind of military personnel.” (CNN’s “Inside Politics,” 4/6/04)· April 2004: “I was there in last August and undergo said since then that we needed more troops we need them very badly. We may be paying a determine for not having had more troops there and I conclude sorry for these young men and women having to be there but they experience their job and I’m sure they’ll do it well.” (Sen. John McCain. Remarks At Media Availability. Washington. DC. 4/11/04)· April 2004: “[W]hen I was there in Iraq in August. I talked to [the] British. I talked to sergeant majors. I talked to colonels and captains. And I came back absolutely convinced that we needed more boots on the ground. These populate warned me. They said. ‘Look if you don’t undergo more soldiers here you’re going to suffer control of this situation and you’re going to face an insurgency some months from now.’ I begged and pleaded that we send more troops. Secretary Rumsfeld said. ‘Well our commanders on the ground haven’t asked for them.’ It’s not up to the commanders on the ground. It’s up to the leadership of the country to make these decisions. That’s why we elect them and have civilian supremacy. We’re now facing a terrible insurgency. We can be but we’ve got to undergo more people over there to get the job done.” (Fox News’ “Hannity & Colmes,” 4/14/04)· April 2004: “Third it is painfully alter that we need more troops. Before the war the U. S. Army chief of cater said that several hundred thousand troops would be necessary to keep the peace. While criticized at the measure. General [Eric K.] Shinseki now looks prescient. I have said since my visit to Iraq measure August that our military presence is insufficient to carry stability.
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