"John McCain voted against funding the troops because of . . . a timeline in it to draw down American troops."
Three years ago, John McCain said, "Afghanistan — we don't read about it anymore in papers because it succeeded."
Says McCain once said that on "the most important issues of our day, I've been totally in agreement and support of President Bush."
"When Pakistan erupted in crisis, I spoke to Musharraf before Bush did."
"First, he said he would leave residual forces in Iraq, and now he says he wouldn't."
"With one stroke of his pen, President Bush has denied health insurance to 3.8 million kids who were due to get it under this bipartisan expansion of the Children's Health Insurance Program."
"You know we can't just pull out now... The truth of the matter is: If we started today, it would take one year, one year to get 160,000 troops physically out of Iraq, logistically."
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