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McCain's Dare Backfires

At the time, it probably seemed like a good way to score political points. Back in May, John McCain began regularly taunting Barack Obama for not having visited Iraq in two years. Though McCain's own photo-op Iraq trips had provided controversy of their own, the Arizona Senator sensed an opening to portray Obama as out-of-touch with the situation on the ground:"Look at what happened in the last two years since Senator Obama visited and declared the war lost," the GOP presidential nominee-in-waiting told the Associated Press in an interview, noting that the Illinois senator's last trip to Iraq ...

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