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Posted By: Peace
31-Mar-08 - 05:39 PM
Thread Name: BS: Debate: Is McCain McWar?
Subject: RE: BS: Debate: Is McCain McWar?
One question to ask and a little something to read.
John McCain: Peace Movement Fizzling posted 04/03, by Proud Republican (viewed 98 times)
McCain: Peace Movement Fizzling
The peace protests that received wide and uncritical coverage from sympathetic reporters during the months before the Iraq war may now be fizzling out.
At least that's the assessment from Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who noted a change in U.S. and British attitudes toward the war late Wednesday in an interview with nationally syndicated radio hosts John Batchelor and Paul Alexander.
"It's kind of interesting that the support for the war has remained at a steady 70 percent," McCain told the radio duo. "So the kind of anti-war stuff has kind of tailed off in the United States and in England."
The maverick Republican gave President Bush high marks for his conduct of the war, telling Batchelor and Alexander, "I think he's shown determination, he's talked to the American people and he's remained calm throughout, so I think he's done well."