McCain's Most Admired Colleagues Disagree With Him

"What's the first thing you would do as president?" the Detroit News asked McCain in March of 2000 when he was running against President Bush.

"The first thing I would do," the candidate answered, "is call in John Kerry, Bob Kerrey, Joe Biden, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Henry Kissinger, Dick Lugar, Chuck Hagel and several others and say we've got to get foreign-policy, national-security issues back on track."

Given the recent positions taken by these gentlemen with regards to the Iraq War, Senator Mccain has either shown a tremendous lack of judgment in selecting these particular colleagues, or he is completely off base in terms of his own foreign policy agenda. It would seem he would agree with men he selected as his advisers on foreign policy.

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[jkerouac02]

Kissinger is pretty much in line with McCain on Iraq (although he actually knows what is going on there and understands the situation in context). The quote is misleading.

[zideaz]

John McCain has bought into the Neo-Con. ideology, even though it was crafted by the oil and defense companies backing the think tank, The Project for the New American Century. Bombing and invading Middle Eastern countries is good for business, especially since the U.S. was in need of a new enemy after the fall of the Soviet Union.

Only one of the major candidates running has not accepted money from PAC's and federal lobbyists representing oil and defense companies. That person is Obama.