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MoveOn.org Political Action TV :30	“Escalate” MOP-07-101
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John McCain has done more than just embrace George Bush’s failed policy in Iraq. It’s actually his idea to escalate the war there.	“Whatever the term and regardless of the specifics, many will remember President Bush's decision to send more troops to Iraq as John McCain's plan. The senior Arizona senator and potential 2008 presidential candidate has been the most prominent champion of a troop increase in Iraq since a few months after the start of the war in 2003.” [Arizona Republic, 1/11/07] Republican Senator John McCain said the report's rejection of his idea to increase troop levels in Iraq runs counter to the advice of many uniformed officers. [AP, 12/11/06] President Bush is considering a temporary surge of as many as 40,000 new troops into Iraq to secure Baghdad -- an idea suggested by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., last week when he and Lieberman visited military leaders there. [Connecticut Post, 12/22/06] Some of Bush's fellow Republicans have been offering their own ideas about Iraq.Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., a likely presidential candidate, wants to increase the number of troops in Iraq [USA Today, 12/12/06] Sen. John McCain (R) of Arizona, a likely front-runner for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination, waved about his proposal: an increase in troops of at least 20,000 to help bring stability to Baghdad. [Christian Science Monitor, 11/17/06]
It’s John McCain’s idea to send tens of thousands more soldiers to Iraq.	In October 2006, Senator McCain called for 20,000 additional troops in Iraq. [Associated Press, 10/27/06] In January 2007, Senator McCain called for around 30,000 more troops in Iraq. [NBC, 1/4/07]
And to keep them there, with no timeline for bringing them home.	At a speech before the American Enterprise Institute, Senator McCain said, "the presence of additional brigades should be tied to completion of their mission rather than to some arbitrary deadline.…A time-limited deployment would have, on a smaller scale, the same negative effects posed by a national timetable for withdrawal.” [AEI Speech, 1/5/07]
The McCain plan to escalate. Going from bad. To worse.
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