In an interview with The Daily Caller,
John McCain gives some revisionist history on what he would have done had he
been president after 2000:
Senator John McCain said Thursday
that if he’d won the presidential election in 2000, the United States wouldn’t
have gone to war in Iraq.
McCain, who voted for the invasion
in 2003, explained during a CNN interview that “it’s obvious now, in
retrospect, that Saddam Hussein–although he had used weapons of mass
destruction–did not have the inventory that we seem to have evidence of. Which
now looking back on it, with the benefit of hindsight, [the evidence] was very
flimsy.”
He said that if he’d been
president, he “would have challenged the evidence with greater scrutiny. I
think that with my background with the military and knowledge of national
security with these issues that I hope that I would have been able to see through
the evidence that was presented at the time.”
When asked about American foreign
policy during a 2000 GOP primary debate, McCain said ”I’d institute a policy
that I call ‘rogue state rollback.’ I would arm, train, equip, both from
without and from within, forces that would eventually overthrow the governments
and install free and democratically- elected governments. As long as Saddam
Hussein is in power, I am convinced that he will pose a threat to our security.
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Tristyn Bloom, “McCain:
If I’d Won in 2000, We Wouldn’t Have
Gone to War in Iraq,”
The Daily Caller, July 18,
2014
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