Reply #7: I'm really tired of the 'better there than here' cliche...

[delete_bush]

COSTAS: Senator McCain, I hope this question doesn't seem impertinent, but we often hear that if these terrorists are not confronted in Iraq, they'll be in New York or wherever. What is to stop them from being in New York simultaneously, if they could get here? We know that they would if they could, and they still might.

MCCAIN: Because I believe, Bob, that Iraq would turn into a hotbed of radical Islamist extremism and training, with equipping. It would be a center for Islamic extremism, and also a failure on the part of the United States would set a chain of events in motion, particularly in the Middle East, that would eventually reach the shores of the United States, I believe.

Well gee, John, seems to me that a secular Iraq under Saddam would have been the best scenario after all. Maybe the $300 billion could have been better spent elsewhere, ya think?