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By LIZ SIDOTI Associated Press March 27, 2008 Page 2 of 2 Democrats, in turn, chastised McCain as offering the same policies as Bush. ''John McCain is determined to carry out four more years of George Bush's failed policies,'' Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton said. Clinton, for her part, seized on McCain's Iraq position, which she termed the Bush/McCain policy. ''Like President Bush, Senator McCain continues to oppose a swift and responsible withdrawal from Iraq,'' the New York senator said in a statement. McCain staunchly defended his support for a continued U.S. military mission as the Iraq war enters its sixth year and the U.S. death toll tops 4,000. He derided Clinton's and Obama's calls for withdrawal. Without naming them, McCain said both Democratic candidates ''are arguing for a course that would eventually draw us into a wider and more difficult war that would entail far greater dangers and sacrifices than we have suffered to date.'' Recalling his father's four-year absence after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, his grandfather's death a day after returning from war and his own imprisonment in Vietnam, McCain said: ''I hold my position because I hate war, and I know very well and very personally how grievous its wages are. But I know, too, that we must sometimes pay those wages to avoid paying even higher ones later.'' Answering questions afterward, McCain floated a fresh proposal -- the United States entering into a free trade agreement with the European Union. ''It would be a massive undertaking,'' he told reporters, but said he'd like to start a conversation about it. >> Back -- Page 1 2 Copyright 2008 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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