McCain Hearts Obama
Let's see if the press attacks Saint McCain for saying virtually exactly the same thing Obama got taken to the mattresses for a few weeks ago...
clipped from news.yahoo.com
WASHINGTON - Republican presidential contender John McCain (news, bio, voting record), a staunch backer of the
Iraq war but critic of how
President Bush has waged it, said U.S. lives had been "wasted" in the four-year-old conflict. Democrats demand the Arizona senator apologize for the comment as Sen. Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record) did when the Democratic White House hopeful recently made the same observation.
"Americans are very frustrated, and they have every right to be," McCain said Wednesday on CBS' "Late Show With David Letterman." "We've wasted a lot of our most precious treasure, which is American lives."
McCain, who repeated his assertion that U.S. troops must remain in Iraq rather than withdrawing early, made the "wasted" remark after confirming to Letterman what has been clear for at least a year or more — that he's in the running for the 2008 Republican nomination.
