McCain Challenges Obama, Clinton on Iraq
Speaking before the VFW in Kansas City, says abandoning Iraq would be "reckless" and represents a "failure of leadership."
Invoking the 4,000 U.S. deaths in Iraq, calls on Clinton and Obama to "do the right thing." Click above for clip.
"In such a grave matter, we must put the nation’s interests before our own ambitions." Read full text of his remarks here.
Clinton responds in statement: "Senator McCain's Groundhog Day approach to Iraq means four more years of the Bush-Cheney-McCain policy of continuing to police a civil war..." Read full response.
Obama responds in statement: "It's a failure of leadership to support an open-ended occupation of Iraq that has failed to press Iraq's leaders to reconcile, badly overstretched our military... and made the American people less safe." Read full response.
Monday, April 7, 2008