I'd agree that it would be the wrong change, because it's only aimed at the 17% of socialists, or communists as I like to call them in the U.S. However as time goes on I see Obama is no different than the clintons, ted kenedy, Kerry, Gore, and Edward, just another rich empty suite.
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So when French intelligence and German intelligence and all the others—I don't know what role spin plays in it, but I don't think it would have been very easy for anyone in this administration to spin French intelligence or other nations that held the same view.
Second thing is, obviously, we would all be very happy, I think, if Saddam Hussein was removed from power in the very rapid military operation that we were able to achieve, and we had a stable government in Iraq. Unfortunately, the war was badly mishandled. I went over there early on, came back and said we have got to change the strategy and argued against the failed strategy that the president and [Donald] Rumsfeld were carrying out. And, finally, after four years of enormous sacrifice, we changed our strategy, and it's winning.
So, I will read the intelligence committee's report, but at the same time I think it's very clear that there was a widespread belief not just spun by the administration—unless you believe the intelligence agencies of virtually every nation in the world that we know that engages in it believes the same thing, and they were spun.
So, they may have spun. They may have misrepresented—I don't know—but I do know that every other intelligence agency in the world believed that they had [weapons of mass destruction] and that Saddam Hussein was acquiring them.
The second thing, of course, is that the sanctions were breaking down, airplanes were getting shot at, it was a multibillion- dollar scandal in the Oil-for-Food Program. So it's pretty clear that the status quo was not going to prevail.
There was a report raising questions about statements you made in the past about the wiretapping program and what your advisers say [today]. Have you changed your thinking on wiretapping?
Of course not. My position has been exactly the same. I have always said the president should obey the law. I still believe the president should obey the law.
Want to back up a little bit and talk about press coverage. One of the things that you mentioned in your speech in New Orleans was that you felt that the media hadn't recognized or had overlooked some of the attributes that Hillary Clinton had brought to the race. And I wondered—
I did not—that was in prepared remarks, and I did not—I'm not in the business of commenting on the press and their coverage or not coverage... My supporters and friends can comment all they want about the press coverage, and that's their right. They're American citizens. I will not because I believe it's not a profitable enterprise for me to do so. I can't change any of the coverage that I know of except to just campaign as hard as I can and try to seek the approval of the majority of my fellow citizens.
It is something that the American people will judge, and I won't complain about it and I won't praise it. I will just run my campaign and hope that the American people will make a judgment.
This article was updated June 9th to clarify McCain's exact remarks to Newsweek.
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