Feb. 27, Feature - Likely Republican nominee John McCain is campaigning on a continuation of the Iraq War.

"We succeed in Iraq, we succeed in other places."

Many of McCain's foreign policy advisers have helped to craft President Bush's foreign policy. Many of his advisers are architects of the Iraq War and Neo-conservatives, the right wing ideologues who influenced Bush's foreign policies like the Iraq War, have been flocking to McCain's aid since it became apparent he will be his party's nominee.

Randy Scheunemann is McCain's new defense and foreign policy adviser. He is a former adviser to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. He was President of the pre-war Committee for the Liberation of Iraq to oust Saddam Hussein. Steve Schmidt, is McCain's high powered new political strategist. He worked on Bush's 2004 campaign and was Bush's attack dog whenever former Presidential candidate John Kerry criticized the Iraq War policy. They join other neocons on McCain's campaign like former CIA director James Woolsey. Woolsey helped direct US attention toward Iraq after 9/11 when on the next day he falsely accused the Iraqi Government of having a role in it.

US Iran foreign policy expert Trita Parsi with the Iranian National Iranian American Council is concerned with McCain's foreign policy:

"He represents a manner of foreign policy that I think is very dangerous for the United States. It's a continuation of the neo-conservative approach. I think it's done tremendous harm to US foreign policy."

Jacob Heilbrunn, senior editor at The National Interest, a publication of the Nixon Center, says that with McCain the neocons will dominate US foreign policy.

"People are going to be surprised to the extent that McCain is George W. Bush on steroids. If McCain becomes President the Neocon influence will be at its zenith historically."

Including the policy on Iran Heilbrunn says.

"Most neo-conservatives are very sympathetic to the idea of attacking Iran."

During a recent talk about energy security McCain adviser, former CIA director James Woolsey insisted Iran has a nuclear weapons program, Despite a latest intelligence report that suggested otherwise.

"The government of Iran is as far as I'm concerned continually embarked on nuclear weapons program."

An alleged nuclear weapons program, one of his other arguments for a US Military build up in the region. In January, Woolsey told Israeli TV that the US could simply not allow Iran to acquire a nuclear bomb.

"Well I agree with Senator John McCain. A terrible thing would be if we had to use force but there is one thing that's worse and that is letting the Iranians have a nuclear weapon."

Despite help from the powerful Neocons and the Republican political machine, John McCain must still face voters who are tired of the Iraq war, frightened of war with Iran, and angry about the billions in tax dollars being diverted to the war in Iraq every year.