There is the Keating Five of course, the impact of his Health Care "Ideas" which will create Higher Costs and Less Coverage, details of McCain's past predictions on Iraq, which sounded like Bush's.
2002, 2003: Winning In Iraq Would Be "Easy." In the run up to War with Iraq, McCain repeatedly emphasized that the conflict would be "easy." Speaking in September 2002 about the prospect of invading Iraq, McCain said he thought it would not be a difficult conflict. McCain said, "I believe that the success [in Iraq] will be fairly easy." In January of 2003, McCain again predicted the same about invading Iraq, saying, "we will win this conflict. We will win it easily."
- The End Is "Very Much In Sight." Senator McCain was asked "At what point will America be able to say the war was won?" McCain said there were oil fields to secure and "die-hards" to take care of but "it's clear that the end is very much in sight, and today I think Americans should be very proud of their leadership, their technology...There are still some foreigners, Syrians and others hanging around. But it won't be long. It will be a fairly short period of time, but this happens in wars. I'm confident that once they are confident the area is no longer a threat to the Marines and to or army troops that they'll start imposing discipline. In the meantime, we'll have a short period of chaos."
- McCain Said That Another Year Will Prove "Stay the Course" Is Working. "McCain believes that the U.S., and the cause of Iraqi independence, are moving forward in Iraq, a little bit at a time. 'I think the situation on the ground is going to improve,' he says. 'Overall, I think a year from now, we will have made a fair amount of progress if we stay the course.'"
- McCain Said That Iraq Was "On The Right Track" As The Country Moved Closer To Civil War. Speaking on the "Imus in the Morning" radio show on March 1, 2006, McCain played down the increasing civil violence in Iraq. When Imus remarked that Iraq "already looks like a civil war," McCain responded, saying, "I keep trying to look at the bright side of this because we have to because the consequences of failure are catastrophic. But the gathering of the seven most respected religious leaders the day before yesterday, calling for calm and calling for some kind of reconciliation, I think, was important. I think, at least we're on the right track here."
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