John McCain - Revision history

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On the Iraq War

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	"I have said a long time that reconstruction of Iraq would be a long, long, difficult process, but the conflict -- the major conflict is over, the regime change has been accomplished, and it's very appropriate." [http://www.blogforarizona.com/blog/2010/09/john-mccains-greatest-hits-wrong-on-iraq.html (6/11/2003)]		"I have said a long time that reconstruction of Iraq would be a long, long, difficult process, but the conflict -- the major conflict is over, the regime change has been accomplished, and it's very appropriate." [http://www.blogforarizona.com/blog/2010/09/john-mccains-greatest-hits-wrong-on-iraq.html (6/11/2003)]

			"We're going to win this victory. Tragically we're going to lose American lives but it will be brief. We're going to find out massive evidence of weapons of mass destruction and we're going to find the incredible brutalities that this dictator has inflicted on the Iraqi people." (2/21/03) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFNiad6US5U]

			"Every intelligence agency in the world, including the Russian, French, including the Israeli, all had reached the same conclusion, and that was that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction." [http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/What-Happened-to-Iraq-s-WMD-How-politics-2558434.php]

	==On Arab Spring==		==On Arab Spring==

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 == Vote on authorization of the use of force in Iraq ==
 [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-love/who-voted-to-authorize-fo_b_85652.html McCain voted yes] on the authorization of the use of force in Iraq.
 == Fast Track Vote ==

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2015-09-29T19:27:25Z

On Climate Change

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	“The knowledge of torture’s dubious efficacy and my moral objections to the abuse of prisoners motivated my sponsorship of the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005, which prohibits ‘cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment’ of captured combatants, whether they wear a nation’s uniform or not, and which passed the Senate by a vote of 90-9.		“The knowledge of torture’s dubious efficacy and my moral objections to the abuse of prisoners motivated my sponsorship of the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005, which prohibits ‘cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment’ of captured combatants, whether they wear a nation’s uniform or not, and which passed the Senate by a vote of 90-9.

	~~== On Climate Change ==~~

	"Today I’d like to focus on just one of those challenges, and among environmental dangers it is surely the most serious of all. Whether we call it “climate change” or “global warming,” in the end we’re all left with the same set of facts. The facts of global warming demand our urgent attention, especially in Washington. Good stewardship, prudence, and simple commonsense demand that we to act meet the challenge, and act quickly. Some of the most compelling evidence of global warming comes to us from NASA. No longer do we need to rely on guesswork and computer modeling, because satellite images reveal a dramatic disappearance of glaciers, Antarctic ice shelves and polar ice sheets." [http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2008/05/12/172199/mccain-climate-speech/ From a speech in 2008]

	[http://www.climatedepot.com/2014/03/03/sen-john-mccain-on-climate-change-i-just-leave-the-issue-alone-because-i-dont-see-a-way-through-it/ In an interview about Climate Change legislation in 2014, McCain said]: "There’s going to be no movement in the Congress of the United States certainly this year and probably next year. So I just leave the issue alone because I don’t see a way through it, and there are certain fundamentals, for example nuke power, that people on the left will never agree with me on. So why should I waste my time when I know the people on the left are going to reject nuclear power? I don’t believe that you can really succeed in reducing greenhouse gases unless you have a lot of nuclear power plants. They’re against them. Well, okay, I move on to other issues."

	== Fast Track Vote ==		== Fast Track Vote ==

50.153.185.21: /* Fast Track Vote */

2015-09-17T20:27:51Z

Fast Track Vote

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	== Fast Track Vote ==		== Fast Track Vote ==
	~~McCain voted in favor of giving the President fast track trade authority. [~~[http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=114&session=1&vote=00183]]		[http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=114&session=1&vote=00183 McCain voted in favor] of giving the President fast track trade authority.

	== Other Wikis ==		== Other Wikis ==

50.153.185.21: /* On Climate Change */

2015-09-17T20:25:26Z

On Climate Change

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	"Today I’d like to focus on just one of those challenges, and among environmental dangers it is surely the most serious of all. Whether we call it “climate change” or “global warming,” in the end we’re all left with the same set of facts. The facts of global warming demand our urgent attention, especially in Washington. Good stewardship, prudence, and simple commonsense demand that we to act meet the challenge, and act quickly. Some of the most compelling evidence of global warming comes to us from NASA. No longer do we need to rely on guesswork and computer modeling, because satellite images reveal a dramatic disappearance of glaciers, Antarctic ice shelves and polar ice sheets." [http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2008/05/12/172199/mccain-climate-speech/ From a speech in 2008]		"Today I’d like to focus on just one of those challenges, and among environmental dangers it is surely the most serious of all. Whether we call it “climate change” or “global warming,” in the end we’re all left with the same set of facts. The facts of global warming demand our urgent attention, especially in Washington. Good stewardship, prudence, and simple commonsense demand that we to act meet the challenge, and act quickly. Some of the most compelling evidence of global warming comes to us from NASA. No longer do we need to rely on guesswork and computer modeling, because satellite images reveal a dramatic disappearance of glaciers, Antarctic ice shelves and polar ice sheets." [http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2008/05/12/172199/mccain-climate-speech/ From a speech in 2008]

	In an interview about Climate Change legislation in 2014, McCain said: "There’s going to be no movement in the Congress of the United States certainly this year and probably next year. So I just leave the issue alone because I don’t see a way through it, and there are certain fundamentals, for example nuke power, that people on the left will never agree with me on. So why should I waste my time when I know the people on the left are going to reject nuclear power? I don’t believe that you can really succeed in reducing greenhouse gases unless you have a lot of nuclear power plants. They’re against them. Well, okay, I move on to other issues."~~[[http://www.climatedepot.com/2014/03/03/sen-john-mccain-on-climate-change-i-just-leave-the-issue-alone-because-i-dont-see-a-way-through-it/]]~~		[http://www.climatedepot.com/2014/03/03/sen-john-mccain-on-climate-change-i-just-leave-the-issue-alone-because-i-dont-see-a-way-through-it/ In an interview about Climate Change legislation in 2014, McCain said]: "There’s going to be no movement in the Congress of the United States certainly this year and probably next year. So I just leave the issue alone because I don’t see a way through it, and there are certain fundamentals, for example nuke power, that people on the left will never agree with me on. So why should I waste my time when I know the people on the left are going to reject nuclear power? I don’t believe that you can really succeed in reducing greenhouse gases unless you have a lot of nuclear power plants. They’re against them. Well, okay, I move on to other issues."

	== Fast Track Vote ==		== Fast Track Vote ==

50.153.185.21: /* On Climate Change */

2015-09-17T20:24:49Z

On Climate Change

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	== On Climate Change ==		== On Climate Change ==

	"Today I’d like to focus on just one of those challenges, and among environmental dangers it is surely the most serious of all. Whether we call it “climate change” or “global warming,” in the end we’re all left with the same set of facts. The facts of global warming demand our urgent attention, especially in Washington. Good stewardship, prudence, and simple commonsense demand that we to act meet the challenge, and act quickly. Some of the most compelling evidence of global warming comes to us from NASA. No longer do we need to rely on guesswork and computer modeling, because satellite images reveal a dramatic disappearance of glaciers, Antarctic ice shelves and polar ice sheets." ~~From a speech in 2008[~~[http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2008/05/12/172199/mccain-climate-speech/]]		"Today I’d like to focus on just one of those challenges, and among environmental dangers it is surely the most serious of all. Whether we call it “climate change” or “global warming,” in the end we’re all left with the same set of facts. The facts of global warming demand our urgent attention, especially in Washington. Good stewardship, prudence, and simple commonsense demand that we to act meet the challenge, and act quickly. Some of the most compelling evidence of global warming comes to us from NASA. No longer do we need to rely on guesswork and computer modeling, because satellite images reveal a dramatic disappearance of glaciers, Antarctic ice shelves and polar ice sheets." [http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2008/05/12/172199/mccain-climate-speech/ From a speech in 2008]

	In an interview about Climate Change legislation in 2014, McCain said: "There’s going to be no movement in the Congress of the United States certainly this year and probably next year. So I just leave the issue alone because I don’t see a way through it, and there are certain fundamentals, for example nuke power, that people on the left will never agree with me on. So why should I waste my time when I know the people on the left are going to reject nuclear power? I don’t believe that you can really succeed in reducing greenhouse gases unless you have a lot of nuclear power plants. They’re against them. Well, okay, I move on to other issues."[[http://www.climatedepot.com/2014/03/03/sen-john-mccain-on-climate-change-i-just-leave-the-issue-alone-because-i-dont-see-a-way-through-it/]]		In an interview about Climate Change legislation in 2014, McCain said: "There’s going to be no movement in the Congress of the United States certainly this year and probably next year. So I just leave the issue alone because I don’t see a way through it, and there are certain fundamentals, for example nuke power, that people on the left will never agree with me on. So why should I waste my time when I know the people on the left are going to reject nuclear power? I don’t believe that you can really succeed in reducing greenhouse gases unless you have a lot of nuclear power plants. They’re against them. Well, okay, I move on to other issues."[[http://www.climatedepot.com/2014/03/03/sen-john-mccain-on-climate-change-i-just-leave-the-issue-alone-because-i-dont-see-a-way-through-it/]]

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2015-09-17T20:23:45Z

On Torture

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	== On Torture ==		== On Torture ==

	~~From a floor speech in 2014.~~ [http://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2014/12/floor-statement-by-sen-mccain-on-senate-intelligence-committee-report-on-cia-interrogation-methods]		[http://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2014/12/floor-statement-by-sen-mccain-on-senate-intelligence-committee-report-on-cia-interrogation-methods From a floor speech in 2014.]

	“I know from personal experience that the abuse of prisoners will produce more bad than good intelligence. I know that victims of torture will offer intentionally misleading information if they think their captors will believe it. I know they will say whatever they think their torturers want them to say if they believe it will stop their suffering. Most of all, I know the use of torture compromises that which most distinguishes us from our enemies, our belief that all people, even captured enemies, possess basic human rights, which are protected by international conventions the U.S. not only joined, but for the most part authored.		“I know from personal experience that the abuse of prisoners will produce more bad than good intelligence. I know that victims of torture will offer intentionally misleading information if they think their captors will believe it. I know they will say whatever they think their torturers want them to say if they believe it will stop their suffering. Most of all, I know the use of torture compromises that which most distinguishes us from our enemies, our belief that all people, even captured enemies, possess basic human rights, which are protected by international conventions the U.S. not only joined, but for the most part authored.

50.153.185.21: /* Vote on authorization of the use of force in Iraq */

2015-09-17T20:20:37Z

Vote on authorization of the use of force in Iraq

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	== Vote on authorization of the use of force in Iraq ==		== Vote on authorization of the use of force in Iraq ==
	~~McCain voted yes on the authorization of the use of force in Iraq [~~[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-love/who-voted-to-authorize-fo_b_85652.html]]		[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-love/who-voted-to-authorize-fo_b_85652.html McCain voted yes] on the authorization of the use of force in Iraq.

	== On Torture ==		== On Torture ==

50.153.185.21: /* On Arab Spring */

2015-09-17T20:20:00Z

On Arab Spring

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	'''Friendly with Gadafi'''		'''Friendly with Gadafi'''

	http://husseini.posterous.com/mccain-on-a-late-evening-w-gadafi-a-year-ago		http://husseini.posterous.com/mccain-on-a-late-evening-w-gadafi-a-year-ago - not archived

	'''Being Against Egyptian Revolution'''		'''Being Against Egyptian Revolution'''

50.153.185.21: /* On Arab Spring */

2015-09-17T20:15:43Z

On Arab Spring

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	'''Being Against Egyptian Revolution'''		'''Being Against Egyptian Revolution'''

	"This virus is spreading throughout the Middle East.... This, I would argue, is probably the most dangerous period of history in—of our entire involvement in the Middle East, at least in modern times. Israel is in danger of being surrounded by countries that are against the very existence of Israel, are governed by radical organizations.” ~~(2/2/2011, Fox News)~~ [http://ontherecord.foxnews.mobi/quickPage.html?page=25657&content=47864221&pageNum=-1]		"This virus is spreading throughout the Middle East.... This, I would argue, is probably the most dangerous period of history in—of our entire involvement in the Middle East, at least in modern times. Israel is in danger of being surrounded by countries that are against the very existence of Israel, are governed by radical organizations.” [http://ontherecord.foxnews.mobi/quickPage.html?page=25657&content=47864221&pageNum=-1 (2/2/2011, Fox News)]

	“This revolution,” he said, “is a repudiation of Al Qaeda. This revolution has shown the people of the world, not just in the Arab world, that peaceful change can come about and violence and extremism is not required in order to achieve democracy and freedom." ~~(3/2/2011)~~ [http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/02-16]		“This revolution,” he said, “is a repudiation of Al Qaeda. This revolution has shown the people of the world, not just in the Arab world, that peaceful change can come about and violence and extremism is not required in order to achieve democracy and freedom." [http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/02-16 (3/2/2011)]

	== Vote on authorization of the use of force in Iraq ==		== Vote on authorization of the use of force in Iraq ==