http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,17960589%255E31477,00.html
US neglects region for Iraq: McCain
Geoff Elliott, Washington correspondent
January 28, 2006
GEORGE Bush is neglecting the Asia-Pacific region as his administration is drawn into the deteriorating war in Iraq, says the senior Republican senator tipped to become the next president of the US.
John McCain, who has become one of the hottest tips for the presidential ticket in 2008, said the US had dropped the ball in the region, citing recent decisions by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to cancel visits to Australia, Indonesia and Malaysia.
His comments support anxiety within Australia's foreign policy circles and throughout the Pacific that the US is ignoring the region.
Australia is still waiting for a new US ambassador, almost a year after Tom Schieffer was appointed ambassador to Japan.
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Not only is he saying that in AUSTRALIA...but, while he was in Davos...he was spewing his crapola about how our military is torturing and abusing the terrorists in Gitmo, STILL!!!
Yeppers...he is overseas blasting our military...saying that nothing has been done to clean up the nastiness being done in Gitmo...
What a despicable man...and don't forget, he is leading the bandwagon to get hearings on the corruption of the Administration re: Abramoff...