Arizona Senator and Republican presidential candidate John McCain warned Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, both Democratic presidential hopefuls, that the withdrawal of US troops in Iraq would be an “unconscionable act of betrayal and a stain on their character as a great nation.†McCain strongly supports the presence of American troops in Iraq. He and Clinton continue to disagree on this matter. On the other hand, he and current President George W. Bush, who also happens to be a Republican, share the same views in opposing the removal of US forces in Iraq.
John McCain is reported to be running near if not ahead of Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama in the national polls.