In his 2000 Campaign for the Presidency, the Republican Candidates were asked this at a debate:

What area of American international policy would you change immediately as president?

This is what he answered with:

KING: Senator?

SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R-AZ), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: China is obviously a place where this — one of the signal failures of this administration. Although there are certainly many failures throughout the world.

But I would also look very — revise our policies concerning these rogue states: Iraq, Libya, North Korea – those countries that continue to try to acquire weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them. As long…

KING: And you’d do what?

MCCAIN: I’d institute a policy that I call “rogue state rollback.” I would arm, train, equip, both from without and from within, forces that would eventually overthrow the governments and install free and democratically elected governments.

As long as Saddam Hussein is in power, I am convinced that he will pose a threat to our security. “The New York Times” reported just a few days ago that administration officials worry that Saddam Hussein continues to develop weapons of mass destruction.

Congress passed a law a couple of years ago, called the Iraqi Liberation Act; the administration has done nothing. We should help them with arms, training, equipment, radio and a broad variety of ways. Until those governments are overthrown, they will pose a threat to U.S. national security.

Well, he didn’t get to be President, but Bush sure did take care of Hussein.  So what is next?  If McCain becomes President this time around, will he finish the job?  Will he develop a military ready to overthrow governments whenever he feels like it?  What will his lies be to get the American people behind him?  I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.