More than 1,500 people who packed a church gym Saturday heard Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards kick off his South Carolina primary campaign by rejecting what he called the "McCain doctrine" of sending more troops to Iraq.
The former U.S. senator from North Carolina said that rather than boosting troop numbers by up to 30,000 as Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., has proposed, he would bring as many as 50,000 home immediately.
"The most important goal for the next president of the United States is to restore America's moral leadership in the world," Edwards said. "And the starting place is Iraq."
Saturday's rallies in West Columbia and Chapel Hill ended a three-day kickoff tour that started Thursday in New Orleans' Ninth Ward, a poverty-stricken neighborhood designed to dramatize Edwards' focus on the "two Americas." He had followed with visits to Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada, sites of the first nominating contests. South Carolina's primary follows right behind on Jan. 29, 2008.
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