McCain Iraq Speech Interrupted By News Of Mortar Fire

thinkprogress.org — Today, John McCain spoke to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, making the case for the “unmistakable progress” in Iraq. A telling moment in his remarks came when he was arguing why Bush’s surge “dramatically turned around the situation in Iraq.” Just as he reached this point in his speech, MSNBC cut away to report on violence in the Green Zone. Apr 7, 2008 View in Crawl 4