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Article: Against the Tide on Iraq; McCain Stakes His Future on a Belief That the War Can and Must Be Won
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- The Washington Post
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- November 20, 2005
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As demonstrated by the fierce White House counterattack in recent
days on critics of the Iraq war, no one has more riding on the
outcome of that war than President Bush, the man who sent U.S. forces
into Baghdad.
But in political terms, the man next most affected by the outcome
of the fighting could be Sen. John McCain of Arizona.
No one outside the administration has been more adamant or
outspoken in arguing that there is no substitute for victory in Iraq
than has McCain, the Naval Academy graduate and survivor of years in
a North Vietnamese prison camp. Others in the field of potential 2008
presidential candidates also support the war, but for none of them
does it represent as large a ...