OWH: Presidential Profile: Iraq war at the heart of McCain campaign

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2835&u_sid=10169608

Published Sunday | October 28, 2007
Presidential Profile: Iraq war at the heart of McCain campaign
BY ROBYNN TYSVER
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER


SIOUX CITY, Iowa - In 1968, John McCain and his fellow POWs excitedly tapped out messages to one another on their prison walls.

Peace talks were under way in Paris, and the bombing of North Vietnam had stopped. They believed the war was ending and they were going home.

The euphoria in the Hanoi prison, however, was premature.

Five years premature.

"We were positive, and everybody got very exuberant. Then, after a period of time passed - a month and a year or more - some depression had a tendency to set in. I swore then I would never get excited again until I shook hands with an American in uniform," McCain said.

A decorated former Navy pilot, McCain has experienced the highs and lows of war. Now he's putting that experience front and center in his Republican presidential bid, trying to convince voters he is the cool-hand warrior with the moxie and military experience to ride out the good and bad days to victory in Iraq.

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[sallyseven]

1. The more I see of him the more I dislike McCain.

I find him whiny and disingenuous. I cannot accept his wanting to continue the war that he thinks we will win. We won't that is why bush is letting it go on. When it ends in a mess bush and mccain can say well we wanted to go on to victory but the anti war people wouldn't let us. He is senile and should just drop out.