New McCain Attack: Obama Wants to Lose War

John McCain’s inner circle tried a new line of attack against Barack Obama today, charging that the presumptive Democratic nominee and his entire party want to lose the Iraq war to serve their own political purposes. Said McCain’s top foreign policy hand, “Senator Obama seems to think losing a war will help him to win an election.”

Lindsey Graham charged that the Democrats started building a “political strategy” around defeat when Harry Reid declared the war “lost” last year. The campaign rep also said Obama  hopes to “defund our forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, in an effort to placate the left wing.” (More John McCain stories.)