Nearby were Rumsfeld's number two, Paul Wolfowitz, and his personal military  assistant, Admiral Edmund Giambastiani Jr. Newbold began reviewing the plan  to invade Iraq, several years old by that point, which called for 500,000 troops—a  figure Rumsfeld summarily dismissed. Surely 125,000 would suffice, he said, and  ...
Jul 27, 2017 ... We can wish McCain a speedy recovery while also acknowledging that he is  nevertheless, to quote Jimmy Carter, an unrepentant “warmonger.” He has the  blood of tens of thousands of innocents, in places like Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen,  and Libya, on his hands. And with his vote to move the Republican ...
Sep 28, 2011 ... But if U.S. troops are to leave Iraq at the end of this year as promised –  repeatedly – it will take grassroots pressure to counter the growing “occupy-Iraq- forever” chorus in Washington. Despite the fact that there is a Bush-era  agreement with the Iraqi government to leave, despite the fact that the majority of  ...
Oct 16, 2008 ... The missing piece of this puzzle, says a former McCain confidant who has fallen  out with the senator over his neoconservatism, is a third, never realized,  campaign that McCain intended to run against Bush in 2004. "McCain wanted a  rematch, based on ethics, campaign finance and Enron — the corrupt ...
Putin in Crimea: it's delusional to think Cold War is over. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ ) ratcheted up his rhetoric against President Barack Obama on Friday, accusing  his administration of being "near delusional" in their assessment of Russian  President Vladimir Putin, whose forces have occupied the Ukrainian Crimea.
Sen. McCain would occupy Iraq indefinitely, against their wishes.