McCain's Speech Tomorrow Will Tie Him Tighter To Iraq

Political insiders of all stripes will be watching closely when John McCain give his high-stakes speech on Iraq tomorrow at Virginia Military Institute. McCain advisers tell Chief White House Correspondent Kenneth T. Walshthat it will be one of the Arizona senator's biggest moments so far in the evolving campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.

In previews offered over the past few days, McCain insiders said the address will emphasize that the Iraq war is winnable, that slow but definite progress is being made, and that defeat would be a "catastrophe" for the United States and the Middle East. A loss, McCain will say, would give terrorists a breeding ground for more attacks on the United States and set back the causes of peace and democracy in the region.

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