Anti-war protesters disrupt McCain here
Apron-wearing anti-war protesters disrupted Republican presidential candidate John McCain's speech to the National Restaurant Association Monday.
To the tune of "I've been working on the railroad," they sang, "McCain's in the kitchen with George Bush, cooking up another war" and unfurled red banners.
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As they were escorted out of McCormick Place, McCain said, "The important thing in America is we have the right to free speech."
McCain had just finished slamming Democratic rival Barack Obama for his willingness to meet face-to-face with world leaders hostile to America such as Iran's.
"Right now, Iran provides some of the deadliest explosive devices used in Iraq to kill our soldiers," McCain said. "Such a statement betrays the depth of Senator Obama's inexperience and reckless judgment."
A meeting with the American president "would confer . . . international legitimacy on the Iranian president," McCain said.
Reacting in Billings Mont., Obama said, "When the world was on the brink of nuclear holocaust, Kennedy talked to [Soviet leader Nikita] Khrushchev and he got those missiles out of Cuba. Why shouldn't we have the same courage and the confidence to talk to our enemies?"