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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-14-07 06:26 PM
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McCain Admits He Has No Clue if His Plan for Iraq Will Work, No Plan B if it Doesn't
Edited on Sat Apr-14-07 06:27 PM by BurtWorm
And "his" "plan" is the one in effect now.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/15/us/politics/15mccain.html?ei=5088&en=acccc07544bedc67&ex=1334289600&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=print

If Elected ...
McCain Sees ‘No Plan B’ for Iraq War
By MICHAEL R. GORDON and ADAM NAGOURNEY

WASHINGTON, April 13 — Senator John McCain said that the buildup of American forces in Iraq represented the only viable option to avoid failure in Iraq and that he had yet to identify an effective fallback if the current strategy failed.

“I have no Plan B,” Mr. McCain said in an interview. “If I saw that doomsday scenario evolving, then I would try to come up with one. But I cannot give you a good alternative because if I had a good alternative, maybe we could consider it now.”

In a discussion of how he would handle Iraq if elected president, Mr. McCain argued that the success of the Bush administration’s strategy, which seeks to protect Baghdad residents so Iraqi political leaders have an opportunity to pursue a program of political reconciliation, was essentially a precondition for a more limited American role that could follow.

“I am not guaranteeing that this succeeds,” said Mr. McCain, who has long argued that additional troops were needed. “I am just saying that I think it can. I believe it has a good shot.”

Mr. McCain methodically dismissed as unrealistic every other plan that had been proposed by Democrats as a substitute for President Bush’s strategy, including those from Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware and Barack Obama of Illinois....
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Raven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-14-07 06:30 PM
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1. Who, in their right mind would not have a Plan B, a fallback plan?
He's just not in his right mind.
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-14-07 06:32 PM
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2. Bush-Cheney comes to mind...
;)
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