McCain: I'd Have Been 'Reluctant' To Start Iraq War If I Won In 2000

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67. What McCain said

“I think I would have (voted the same way), but I think I would have challenged the evidence with greater scrutiny,” McCain explained, as quoted by CNN. “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.”

The paragraph says so much (most of it disturbing).

Had he been elected he thinks he would have been able to "see through the evidence" that was presented. The implication is clear. The evidence did not hold up to scrutiny. Yet he admits, knowing the evidence was wrong he probably would have still voted the same way.

He also acknowledges, as a Senator, he didn't scrutinize the evidence, nor draw from his National Security and Military experience as he would have had he been the President.

Apparently listening to his constituents isn't part of the equation, as I called and wrote him several times. The few times my input was acknowledged it was with the wrong form letter.

I must conclude he believes his role as Senator, is to follow a path and not question.