McCain at AIPAC

Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is seen on two video screens as he addresses the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference 2008 at the Washington Convention Center in Washington.  (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak).

Here is the conclusion of John McCain’s speech yesterday at AIPAC:

"The State of Israel stands as a singular achievement in many ways, and not the least is its achievement as the great democracy of the Middle East.  If there are ties between America and Israel that critics of our alliance have never understood, perhaps that is because they do not fully understand the love of liberty and the pursuit of justice. 

"But they should know those ties cannot be broken.  We were brought together by shared ideals and by shared adversity.  We have been comrades in struggle, and trusted partners in the quest for peace.  We are the most natural of allies.  And, like Israel itself, that alliance is forever.”