 AT THE ABCNEWS DEBATES... FOREIGN POLICY, IS ISSUE OF DEEP PASSION AND HEAVY COMPARISON.
"There were times when we gave the world the impression that we were going to ignore what they thought or what they felt," said Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee of President Bush and his foreign policy. Huckabee was forced into defending his earlier remarks about the president, one of which called the president "arrogant". Huckabee even went so far as to attack Gov. Mitt Romney and said the former Massachussetts governor supported a 'timid withdrawal of U.S. troops' from Iraq.
As usual McCain came out looking like the winner, at least on the foreign policy side of things, touting his initial calls for more U.S. troop deployment into Iraq, and his critisism of Rumsfeld. McCain even mentioned that the president deserved credit for the lack of a terrorist attack on U.S. soil since september 11th, 2001. "I am the only one here that disagreed at the time; I am the only one that said at the time we have got to employ a new strategy. "We are succeeding now in Iraq ... As we blame the president for the failed strategy, we should give him credit for changing the strategy," McCain said in the debate. "I know how to lead, I have been involved in these issues and I know how to solve them," said McCain  
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