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Senator John McCain, the Republican presidential candidate, speaking (where it's safe) in Jordan (that's why they're not wearing their Kevlar suits) yesterday, with Senators Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, left, and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. This is a new generation of warmongers. Their message, which McCain cannot keep on to safe his life, is that we have to stay in Iraq to oppose the Iranians. In order to do that we have to blame al Qaeda on the Iranians instead of the Saudis and the Sunnis. It's just a too contorted set of lies for an old man to keep straight. That's what the caption should be:
IRAQ(N) IS NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Many in the media seem willing to dismiss McCain's statement that Iran is training Al Qaeda as a simple slip of the toungue. This is wrong. McCain did NOT misspeak. If he had simply made the statement once, he could perhaps expect to be given a pass.
But he didn't just say Iran was training Al Qaeda once. He said it in his initial statement (watch it here). He was then asked about it in a follow up question where he repeated it. It is not a simple slip of the toungue if when challenged on the "slip" you then REPEAT IT. [He also repeated it on Hugh Hewitt's radio show]
That is not a gaffe. That is called believing something that isn't true. It is called being confused. And being confused about the differences between Shia and Sunni when claiming that you should be elected president of the United States on your foreign policy knowledge and experience, is simply not okay. This is a big deal.
Repeating the lie over and over is the way the Bushies pushed the war in the first place. It's the propagandists best tool. Say it over and over and it doesn't matter if it's true or not, people will believe it because they heard it several times. And isn''t that John "Straight talk" McCain? Obviously we can be fooled over and over again. Shame on us.
Yes, Barack Obama nailed McCain for it today:
Just yesterday, we heard Sen. McCain confuse Sunni and Shiite, Iran and Al Qaeda. Maybe that is why he voted to go to war with a country that had no Al Qaeda ties. Maybe that is why he completely fails to understand that the war in Iraq has done more to embolden America's enemies than any strategic choice that we have made in decades.
This axis-of-evil myth aimed at Iran is essential to Republican commitment to keep our bus in the ditch for the next 4 to 40 years. Then need a new cold war or world war like our country needs a little peace.
News Flash. Tomorrow all the news will be about Passport Gate. State Departments doing sneak and peek at Obama's passport--three times in three months. Contract workers doing the sneak, then quietly fired and gone. All this is completely illegal, but no one up the chain knows a thing about it. Rice is clueless. I'll wager the contract workers are Halliburton. Any takers?
Since I'm the only Boomer in the room. I'm sorry. I'm sorry for everything. I'm mostly sorry for my generation's failed revolution and that we joined the system and got elected to public office and ruined it all. I'm sorry we gave you GW and his daddy. We even gave you that senile old fart Reagan. Reagonomics and greed is good. And god loves us best cause we're so damned special. We did not stand up and fight the loss of civil right, we rolled right over on Iraq. Boomers, move over.
Give it up, Salvage. Passport-Gate is a story w/out legs. Records of Clinton & McCain were accessed. It's a nonpartisan violation of the law. Comes out as a wash. You're wasting your breath.
Petro, It's ILLEGAL, dangerous to the candidates of either party, and a gross mismanagement of the State apartment. Odd the so far, it been under Pappy and Litlbush. Who is teaching ethics in the Bush family? Barbara, private prison entrepreneur?
Vigilante & Soros:
Even considering McCain's apparent strength in polling, are Americans really going to elect someone who is fudging the facts about a purported relationship between Iran and Al Qaeda in Iraq in the immediate wake of a presidency in which the administration went to great lengths to allege a connection between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda in order to get the country behind a war in Iraq?
“We're succeeding. I don't care what anybody says. I've seen the facts on the ground ...
Senator Clinton and Senator Obama do not understand ... I don't know if it is naiveté or what the problem is but it's obvious that they're dead wrong, and they're wrong when they say that we should leave Iraq immediately… and it's time that they acknowledge that the surge is succeeding and the benefits of success in Iraq will spread throughout the entire Middle East."
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