The Saudis want him to be President. Note that with McCain, there almost always seems to be a lobbyist involved, in this case one for Saudi Arabia: Tom Loeffler, who is on McCain's staff as campaign co-chairman.
McCain Iraq, Iran Policies Make Him Favored Candidate to Saudis
By Hans Nichols and Janine Zacharia
May 16 (Bloomberg) -- John McCain, who is trying to strike a distance from the policies of President George W. Bush, accuses Saudi Arabia of sponsoring insurgents in Iraq and condemns it for human-rights violations, including imprisoning people whose ``only crime is to worship God in their own way.''
``The royal family and other elites would like to see McCain,'' Mai Yamani, a visiting scholar with the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, said yesterday in a telephone interview from London.
``He would keep the troops in Iraq, and that is their main worry, that the U.S. may withdraw or minimize its presence,'' said Yamani, whose father, Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani, was the kingdom's oil minister from 1962 to 1986. U.S. forces are needed to counter the spread of Iranian influence from Iraq, which many Saudis believe ``now is ruled by Iran,'' she said.
McCain said May 6 aboard his campaign bus that he knows Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the former Saudi ambassador to U.S., ``very well,'' citing a 25-year relationship and the bond they share as former military pilots.
McCain's campaign co-chairman, Tom Loeffler, is a registered lobbyist for Saudi Arabia, which earned his firm, the Washington-based Loeffler Group, close to $10 million in the last two years.
Friday, May 16, 2008
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AJ Strata,recoiling and calumnizing against a principled Iraq Vet war protestor boasts that military recruiting is up today, neglecting to mention Bush's dismal economy as a prime reason and that
"In another effort to increase recruiting numbers, the military relaxed its application requirements. A recent report from the Pentagon shows some recruits in the Army, Marines and the Navy have felony crimes such as burglary, grand larceny and aggravated assault. "
http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/5430
Here Strata lines up unevenly some experts who weigh the possibility that AJ's latest purposely oversimplified villain, al Sadr's Mahdi Army might be on the wane in the soon won Iraq War.He doesn't mention for obvious reasons one of his experts also saying
"Besides, the Iranians have excellent relations with the coalition government parties as well as with most of the Shia religious authorities in Iraq.
as it intrudes on the message that Iran is only supporting al Sadr and losing rather than winning in Iraq. Try again AJ.
http://www.counterpunch.org/fantina05172008.html
McCain exposed.
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