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2:03 PM, Dec 16, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPERJohn McCain blasted President Obama earlier this week for pulling out of Iraq for strictly political reasons. "[Obama] has always reaffirmed his campaign promise to end the war in Iraq and withdraw all of our troops," McCain said, suggesting the president was not considering the facts on the ground. Likewise, at the Foreign Policy Initiative's annual conference earlier this week, Senator Lindsey Graham said that "General Axelrod"--a reference to one of Obama's chief campaign advisers, David Axelrod--is running the war effort.
Read more... 11:02 AM, Dec 15, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPERFormer Republican presidential candidate John McCain blasted President Barack Obama on the Senate floor yesterday for the commander in chief’s handling of Iraq.
Read more... 1:11 PM, Dec 6, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPERJohn McCain tweets:
Must-read: Fred Kagan in - The President & the Generals
Kagan's editorial in the latest issue of the magazine can be accessed here.
Read more... 2:06 PM, Oct 18, 2011 • By MICHAEL WARRENSenator John McCain called President Barack Obama’s 3-day bus tour through North Carolina and Virginia “a campaign trip” and said it was “unfortunate” that U.S. taxpayers are footing the bill.
Speaking with reporters at the Capitol this afternoon, McCain also criticized the president’s recent comments about the GOP jobs plan. The Arizona senator is leading the push for an alternative to the Democrats' American Jobs Act.
Read more... 3:44 PM, Aug 30, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPERVia Ben Smith: "Pro-government protesters outside the U.S. Embassy in Moscow earlier this week seemed to be specializing in obscene references to the Arizona senator [John McCain]:"
Read more... 4:03 PM, Aug 29, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPER
Last week, when Libyan tyrant Muammar Qaddafi had reportedly fallen from power, Senator John McCain, along with his colleague Senator Lindsey Graham, issued (in part) the following statement:
Read more... 1:30 PM, Jul 18, 2011 • By THOMAS DONNELLY
In a letter to new Defense Secretary Leon Panetta last week, Senators Carl Levin and John McCain, the top men on the Senate Armed Services Committee, suggested it was time to look into terminating the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program. Angered by cost increases for the first three lots of low-rate production on the Lightning, the two senators asked Panetta to tell them “what would be our legal obligations and our costs if we were to terminate the F-35 program now.”
Read more... 6:51 PM, Jun 24, 2011 • By MICHAEL WARRENTwo resolutions on the Libya intervention failed in the House of Representatives today. One sought to authorize military action, while the other would have limited funding for the operation. Only eight Republicans voted for the authorization measure, and 89 Republicans joined with most of the Democratic caucus to defeat the defunding resolution.
Read more... 3:58 PM, Jun 23, 2011 • By THOMAS JOSCELYN
At the end of a Washington Post op-ed criticizing John McCain for labeling Republicans who oppose intervention in the Libyan war “isolationists,” George Will writes (emphasis added):
Read more... 11:27 AM, Jun 9, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPER
In comments today in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee, which is holding a hearing for Leon Panetta's nomination to be the next secretary of Defense, Senator John McCain warned against drastic Defense budget cuts and dangerous, immediate drawdown in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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