This video got some coverage on the internet yesterday, but was drowned out by the "houses" silliness. Well it would be nice to go after Mccain on something with a bit more substance. So how about judgment? The following video was from 2001. Where McCain talks about how he would have picked both Cheney and Rumsfeld. Certainly McCain must have heard of the Project for a New American Century and the neo-con views of the world. Plus they are both chicken hawks.
So other than playing politics (and not striaght talk) why would he praise Rumsfeld and Cheney? Some say that McCain came out later against Rumsfeld, however he always said it was "up the president to decide" instead of pushing harder in the senate to apply pressure. So that was nothing more than basic lip service.
9/11 opened a cold-war can of worms for McCain. However unlike neo-cons who want oil out of the middle east. McCain see's dominating Iran and Iraq, as a way to flex American muscle in an area of the world that the Russians feel they still have watch over. The middle east is a big chess piece between two communist counties, China and Russia and for Mccain this is where he and the neo-cons can work together. One for Pride one for Oil.