Troop Push Is Personal For McCain

[GreatAmerican]

<p>Senator Calls for Iraq Boost as Son Becomes a Marine</p>

<p>Published in today’s Washington Compost:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/25/AR2006122500548.html[/url]”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/25/AR2006122500548.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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As the Iraq Study Group issued its long-awaited report on the war, declaring that the United States should not dispatch more troops, Sen. John McCain reacted with his long-held and contrary view: It will take more boots on the ground, or the nation faces “sooner or later, our defeat in Iraq.”</p>

<p>Then the Arizona Republican discreetly flew to San Diego, where the next day, Dec. 8, he sat under a hot sun to watch a skinny 18-year-old in military-issue glasses graduate from boot camp and become a Marine. His son Jimmy…

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[navy2010]

<p>^^^^ and another one at the USNA!</p>