Mccain Campaign Advisers Hold a News Teleconference On Senator Obama's Iraq Trip

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Mccain Campaign Advisers Hold a News Teleconference On Senator Obama's Iraq Trip

MCCAIN CAMPAIGN ADVISERS HOLD A NEWS TELECONFERENCE ON SENATOR OBAMA'S IRAQ TRIP

JULY 22, 2008

SPEAKERS: SEN. SAM BROWNBACK, R-KAN., MCCAIN CAMPAIGN NATIONAL CO-CHAIR

REP. HEATHER A. WILSON, R-N.M.

RANDY SCHEUNEMANN, MCCAIN CAMPAIGN SENIOR FOREIGN POLICY ADVISER BRIAN ROGERS, MCCAIN CAMPAIGN SPOKESMAN

[*] ROGERS: Good morning, everyone, and thanks for joining us on this conference call to discuss Senator -- sorry, Senator Barack Obama's Iraq position. With us, we have Senator Sam Brownback from Kansas, Representative Heather Wilson from New Mexico, and Randy Scheunemann, here from the campaign.

I'm going to hand it over to Senator Brownback.

Senator?

BROWNBACK: Good morning. And thanks, everybody, for joining us the conference call to talk about Iraq, the Iraqi strategy, the surge, which I initially opposed, and what Senator Obama is now saying about the surge.

And I just -- I want to start off by saying thank goodness for John McCain and the surge, because without that we'd be looking at defeat...

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