[Peace-discuss] How vital that election was!

[C. G. Estabrook]

[Just think what would have happened if McCain had won.  Why, we might even be 
straining our military personnel and logistics to the limit to expand the 
killing in the Mideast. --CGE]

	Ryan Grim
	ryan at huffingtonpost.com
	McCain Backs Obama's Iraq War Plan
	February 26, 2009 05:56 PM

Had history turned out otherwise on November 4, 2008 ... Iraq war policy would 
be roughly the same.

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), President Obama's campaign opponent, went to the 
White House Thursday for a briefing on the president's plan for a timetable for 
a troop drawdown in Iraq. Before heading down Pennsylvania Avenue, he said he 
was already largely on board.

McCain said he would not be advising the White House as to what he thought was 
the best plan, but rather hearing them out.

"They're going to present us their recommendations. It's their plan," he said. 
"From what I know about it, I agree with it."

For McCain, the plan has virtue because it is backed by the generals and the 
ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker. "I like it best because it's what Ambassador 
Crocker and General [Raymond] Odierno and General [David] Petraeus also felt was 
a suitable strategy," said McCain...

The Huffington Post asked McCain, if he had been elected president, whether he 
would have implemented roughly the same plan that Obama intends to carry out in 
Iraq.

"Oh, I'm sure," he said, "because that's what our military and civilian 
leadership has recommended. I can't say exactly, but certainly it seems to me 
it's a viable strategy."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/26/mccain-backs-obamas-iraq_n_170365.html