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Here is the man that will defeat GWB by running for Prez and drawing Rebublicans - thus giving Hillary another 43% plurality victory ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ washingtonpost.com McCain: U.S. Must Evaluate Iraq Mission By JAMIE TARABAY BAGHDAD, Iraq - Sen. John McCain said Wednesday the United States should
spend "whatever it takes" to complete its mission in Iraq after a bomb ripped
through U.N. headquarters in Baghdad, killing at least 20 people including the
top U.N. envoy. McCain, R-Ariz., is leading a seven-member delegation of U.S. lawmakers to
Iraq for meetings with soldiers, military officers and civilian administrators.
The group - on the second day of a three-day visit - had just toured a mass
grave site near Hilla, 34 miles south of Baghdad. "After an event like this (the U.N. bombing) we have to evaluate whether we
have enough people, whether we have the right kind of people and whether we are
spending enough money, and I think it's appropriate to make that evaluation,"
McCain told reporters at Baghdad International Airport. Wearing a floppy canvas hat and mopping sweat from his brow in 120 degree
heat, McCain said he looked forward to a congressional hearing in September that
would review the "size of the United States' commitment, the expenses" and the
number of forces positioned in Iraq. "It's going to be interesting when we sit down and see how much money is
being spent," said McCain, who supported the U.S.-led war that ousted Saddam
Hussein. L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. civil administrator in Iraq, has said he hoped that
most of the money for Iraq's reconstruction would come from its oil exports. But
the lucrative oil pipeline has been the routine target of saboteur, and oil
exports are not flowing as they should. As a result, Bremer said he was preparing a list of projects together with
their price tags to present to an international donors conference in Spain in
October. One delegate, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, said the United States needed to
stand firm in the face of insurgents and attackers such as those who exploded a
truck bomb outside the U.N. compound on Tuesday. Over 100 people were injured
and many were still missing Wednesday. "I think they will go to any means to stop the process of peace and
prosperity in Iraq, which means our commitment must be even more firm and more
resolute," Hutchison said. McCain and the other lawmakers were to visit the southern city of Basra on
Thursday before leaving for Pakistan, Afghanistan, Cyprus and Turkey, said Rep.
Jim Kolbe, R-Ariz. Before Iraq, the delegation was in
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