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John McCain Promises Wisconsin Families a Third Bush Term on Iraq

John McCain Promises Wisconsin Families a Third Bush Term on Iraq 

President Bush Endorses John McCain as His Successor

Washington, DC –Hours after clinching his Party’s nomination this week, the one-time “maverick” completed his transformation into a full-fledged Bush Republican by heading to the White House this afternoon to receive President Bush’s formal endorsement. Never before has it been this clear: John McCain offers nothing but a third Bush term. 

John McCain has even said that he would keep our troops in Iraq for 100 years, and that would be “fine by me.”

“By rushing to President Bush’s side, John McCain is showing Wisconsinites that a vote for John McCain is a vote for a third Bush term,” said Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chairman Joe Wineke.  “Wisconsin’s working families already understand that John McCain is out of touch with the issues they are confronting each day, and they don’t want a third Bush term on Iraq.  The closer voters look at the real McCain record, the more they will realize he cannot be trusted to deliver the change America wants."

Third Bush Term on Iraq…

McCain Would Spend 'a Hundred Years' or a 'Million Years' in Iraq. McCain interrupted a voter during a town hall meeting in New Hampshire telling him we could spend "maybe a hundred" years in Iraq and "that would be fine with me." After the town hall meeting, he told a reporter "that U.S. troops could be in Iraq for 'a thousand years' or 'a million years,' as far as he was concerned." [McCain Derry, NH town hall meeting , 1/3/08; motherjones.com , 1/3/08]

McCain Consistently on Bush Talking Points on Iraq. In 2003, McCain echoed Bush's rosy predictions by claiming that the end was "very much in sight" in Iraq. In 2005, McCain backed Bush, arguing that another year would prove "stay the course" was working. [The Hill, 12/8/05; ABC News, Good Morning America, 4/9/03] In 2006, McCain argued that Iraq was "on the right track" even as it slipped further toward civil war. [MSNBC, Imus in the Morning, 3/1/06] As of late, McCain's campaign insists, "terrorists are on the run," even while half of Afghanistan appears to have fallen back under the control of the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden remains at large. [johnmccain.com, press release, 12/17/07; Time, 12/8/07; Investor's Business Daily, 12/14/07]

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