WASHINGTON, July 10 (UPI) -- Former U.S. Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, says that without John McCain, the United States "would have lost the war on Iraq."
McCain, the probable GOP presidential nominee, made the difference by speaking out repeatedly against the way U.S. President George Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld ran the war, Gramm told editors of The Washington Times at a breakfast meeting Thursday.