July 15, 2008
WASHINGTON - John McCain charged Barack Obama with dangerously waffling on Iraq, and warned that recent gains there would vanish if the Democrat stuck to his timetables for withdrawal.
"We are winning," McCain said yesterday. "And if we adopt Sen.
Obama's proposal for a set date for withdrawal, this very fragile success that we have achieved will be jeopardized."
"Senator Obama was wrong when he said [the surge] wouldn't succeed. He was wrong when he said we've lost the war. And he is wrong today when he says that Iraq is not the central battleground" in the war on terrorism, McCain told reporters in Phoenix yesterday.
The political firefight between McCain and Obama erupted on a day when the presumptive Democratic nominee penned a piece in The New York Times saying that he would withdraw troops within 16 months of assuming the presidency.
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