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viction and integrity. His values, his beliefs, his personal goals and principles were brutally tempered in war and have since been built, and deeply tested in congressional service.
Consider these most essential issues now facing the country:
• John McCain’s fundamental beliefs on domestic issues are founded upon his conviction that it is each person’s basic responsibility to look after himself, and that the government’s job is essentially to take care of those fairly needing help. On the current tough national economic situation, he remains a believer in the power of tax cuts and is leader of a new growing band of both Democrats and Republicans determined to end wasteful (i.e. pork barrel) spending in Washington.
• On foreign policy, McCain as President would clearly be best prepared to maintain a strong secure nation respected around the world for honoring its commitments.
• On the tough Iraq war situation, the seasoned war and foreign policy expert said at the war’s beginning that our attack to take down the brutality of Saddam Hussein as a threat to Middle East peace was the right thing to do; but that in launching the full Iraq War the Bush administration failed by having no plan to end it and bring peace to the region. The Senator then led the firing of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and boldly initiated the controversial and so far successful U.S. troop surge devised by Gen. David Petraeus.
• On the now hot current immigration issue, the Senator advocates immigration reform both to safeguard our borders and to provide a just pathway to U.S. citizenship (not amnesty) for the 12 million illegal aliens in the country now living also among us here, a position he shares with Senator
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