I'd Have Invaded Iraq Regardless Of WMD's

According to presidential candidate John McCain, only the handling of the Iraq war was a mistake -- not the war itself.

"It's not American presence that bothers the American people, it's American causalities," said McCain in an interview with Tim Russert on NBC's "Meet The Press" on Sunday.

"What I believe we can achieve is a reduction in casualties to the point where the Iraqis are doing the fighting and dying [and] we're supporting them," McCain said.

Tim Russert asked McCain: if, like Bush, McCain would have supported the Iraq war even if no weapons of mass destruction were believed present in Iraq.

"If frogs had wings ... we can talk about lots of hypotheticals," he said.

"The point is if we had done it right, you and I wouldn't even be discussing it now."

McCain also said that he would have invaded Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein even if there were no WMD's, because Saddam was one of the "most brutal dictators in history, etc."