And he wants to run on the Bush Iraq plan? Iraqis don’t seem to be so enthralled by it, considering the upsurge in violence during McCain and Cheney’s concurrent visits. Of course, to them, that’s progress.
WaPo:
Sen. John McCain, traveling in the Middle East to promote his foreign policy expertise, misidentified in remarks Tuesday which broad category of Iraqi extremists are allegedly receiving support from Iran.
He said several times that Iran, a predominately Shiite country, was supplying the mostly Sunni militant group, al-Qaeda. In fact, officials have said they believe Iran is helping Shiite extremists in Iraq.
Speaking to reporters in Amman, the Jordanian capital, McCain said he and two Senate colleagues traveling with him continue to be concerned about Iranian operatives “taking al-Qaeda into Iran, training them and sending them back.”
Pressed to elaborate, McCain said it was “common knowledge and has been reported in the media that al-Qaeda is going back into Iran and receiving training and are coming back into Iraq from Iran, that’s well known. And it’s unfortunate.” A few moments later, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, standing just behind McCain, stepped forward and whispered in the presidential candidate’s ear. McCain then said: “I’m sorry, the Iranians are training extremists, not al-Qaeda.”
The mistake threatened to undermine McCain’s argument that his decades of foreign policy experience make him the natural choice to lead a country at war with terrorists. In recent days, McCain has repeatedly said his intimate knowledge of foreign policy make him the best equipped to answer a phone ringing in the White House late at night.
McCain was in Jordan leading a week-long Congressional delegation and has stressed that the trip was not political, despite the decision to hold a fundraiser in London later this week.
Think Progress has the audio. It’s lucky for McCain that his ol’buddy Lieberman was there to correct him. And about that fundraiser in London?…as Joe at AmBlog says:
Big week for John McCain. He’s on a taxpayer funded photo op excursion around the world. Pretty bold for a guy who beats up on wasteful spending to use government money to finance what is basically a campaign trip. Then, he’s got the fundraiser in London, hosted by a British Lord. Imagine the outrage if a Democrat sent out a fundraising invite with the words “by kind permission of Lord Rothschild OM GBE.”
No Trackbacks To “McCain Doesn’t Know Who We’re Fighting In Iraq“
Why does Lieberman hate McCain? . . err . . I mean, the terrorists? . . or . . freedom??
“The mistake threatened to undermine McCain’s argument that his decades of foreign policy experience make him the natural choice to lead a country at war with terrorists.”
HA! Now that bit was pure comedy!
Ya’ just might say McCain, in Iraq, is Confused About Who to Call ‘My Friends’
http://satiricalpolitical.com/?p=1614
McCain is just Carzy Old!
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REMEMBER:
It WAS WMD’s
It WAS ties to Al-CIA-duh
It WAS Yellow Cake Uranium
It WAS Bio-Chem mobile labs
It WAS imminent threats
It WAS suit case nukes
And then…
It BECAME ABOUT bringing Democracy
It BECAME ABOUT a Freedom agenda
It BECAME ABOUT holding elections
It BECAME ABOUT holding elections… AGAIN!
It BECAME ABOUT standing up
It BECAME ABOUT fighting the insurgents
It BECAME ABOUT capturing Al-CIA-duh in Iraq
And now…
It NOW is about the surge
It NOW is staying the course
It NOW is about Parliament
It NOW is about winning an occupation
It NOW is contolling the oil
IT NOW IS ABOUT MAINTAINING THE LIES!
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And I’m just dyslexic.
At least his middle name isn’t “Hussein.”
Just in time for the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion, presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain made an unannounced visit to Iraq. Unfortunately for him, this week’s anniversary highlights that at almost every turn, John McCain has been disastrously wrong about Iraq.
For a catalog of McCain’s erroneous statements, see:
“Forever Wrong: Five Years of John McCain on Iraq.”
McCain isn’t the only one who doesn’t know who were fighting in Iraq.
Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, have all made inaccurate statements about who comprises the “insurgency.”
Of course, most of the time, the service members who are fighting don’t know who is attacking them, or who might. That’s kind of the problem with occupying foreign countries.
This is why the “Iran is supplying Al-Qaeda in Iraq” meme fails. Al-Qaeda is Sunni, and Iran is Shia… both of which have been at odds with each other for centuries. It’s like saying the Vatican City has always been funding Mormons to take over the Rocky Mountain region.
Of course, when has the GOP been right about anything to do with Muslims?
Blue Taliban Osama Buddha @ 10:
That’s why I don’t trust the Jews.
My friends,
I know I have said that economics is not my strong point, but after the Keating S&L scandal I am very knowledgable on how to fuck people up the ass, and I guarantee that as president I will royally fuck this country up the ass.
Thank you,
John Hagee Parsley McCain
…and you’re not getting your ball back either, you little bastards!
And why the fuck isn’t the media treating that McCain honey/lobbyist bitch Vickie with the same intensity as Obama’s minister? What, does she have special dispensation from the Pope or something? Oh, I’m sorry - the Pope is a whore, according to John McCain’s BFFs.
“McCain Doesn’t Know Who We’re Fighting In Iraq”
Right! Neither does 90% of the American people.
This guy named Al something or other, right? He’s got WMD over there. And his buddy Saddam Hussein is a real ass.
I feel safer already.
One of the first signs of advancing senility is a partial loss of short term memory… I would suggest that Senator McCain has way too much experience. When one gets old, experiences become more and more similar, and thus jumbled up and compressed in one’s memory. Being of the age of collecting Social Security, I can speak with direct personal experience.
Imperial America has an ever-changing list of “enemies” and adversaries as we try to run the rest of the world as a corporate colonial empire or plantation. Sometimes the locals get a little tired of being exploited by wealthy western companies, corporations and countries. Poor John is a little befuddled by all these tiresome details about the many different ethnic and religious groups in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Actually, peoples, clans, groups and tribes have been in flux there for thousands of years. conquering each other, blending together and then splitting apart. Then Imperial America waltzes in, guns ablazing, and demands obedience. Good luck on getting that. Time to get out and let Afghanis run Afghanistan and let Iraqis run Iraq.
Remember that survey of assorted DC people (inc gov workers and politicos) a couple of years ago,
the majority coundnt explain the difference between Sunni and Shia Islam.
All I could picture was lemmings in brown uniforms and black boots, marching.
OK you libural surrender monkeys, Chris isnt here so here it is-McCain has the experience to know about natinal security, Republican style friends, and the only thing the good ole US of A needs to know is that whoever they are and wherever they came from, the solution is to drop bombs on ‘em. End of story folks.
This country is not democratically efficient.
The remaining mainstream candidates are remaining, and not leaving, because of their ideas. In McCain’s case, he is the liberal conservative that the GOP party thinks can keep dissenting republicans from dissenting to the democrats. Someone like that is by definition a wraith, a fence sitter, an apparition. These types of people have no actual self-taught knowledge about the subleties of foreign policy or economics. They are remaining candidates because they have shown evidence of being able to be “influenced” by “special interests” who “educate” them about “what matters”, namely how to enrich themselves at the expense of others.
McCain is ignorant of the middle eastern culture. He has no idea how extremism forms. He is a shell, an empty and moronic non-American vassal that is awaiting corruption by special interests, who are the people who support his campaign.
(_)_) @ 17:
Dance of the Lemmings
McQaidaConflator McFibflubbed on the McJunket. Good thing McFaust was there to keep him on McMephistopheles’ script…
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#’s 626-30 on a sprint to a hell of a finish (666)
This Week’s McAKA’s (updated) and the Big Pile O’ McAKA’s
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james k. sayre @ 15 Says:
“Then Imperial America waltzes in, guns ablazing, and demands obedience. Good luck on getting that. Time to get out and let Afghanis run Afghanistan and let Iraqis run Iraq.”
I say:
That’s the right and the only smart thing to do. It’s strange listening to politicians and dilettants alike, when they’re talking about how it would be irresponsible for the US to pull out now.
Drew @ 19:
McMaverick isn’t remotely a liberal conservative. He talks that way when it gets him somewhere, but he’s a political chameleon who for some reason is loved by the press.
He’s the stealth candidate for all the scrutiny he gets.
james k. sayre @ 15:
The people in Afghanistan are Afghans, not Afghanis. Just sayin’
Old Billy Hussein @ 11:
LOL!
You make a hell of a team - “The Old Blue Bills”, perhaps?
OH M’GOD ! A RePug wrong err lying about Iraq. And Joe(my former Senator from My Ct days F-You Joe) playing the hands behind the puppet routine. Wow. No news here. Back to You.
Drew @ 19:
Nice, and how would you describe the Dem candies?
This would be a scandal if Republicans gave a sh*t about honesty or transparency. But they don’t. If the Wizard of Oz were a Republican, he would never have come out from behind the curtain. He would have just kept saying “Nope, not here. The Wizard is real. Go away. I’m doing a heckuva job…”
(Incidentally, after reading Obama’s speech today, I donated $10 to his campaign. First ever donation to a Presidential campaign. Woo hoo!)
McCain doesn’t know what century it is either.
I just find it incredibly depressing this guy is actually a nominee for president.
I mean seriously, ….this is the best we can do on the Repub. side ? And I don’t know about everyone else, but why would ANY Republican be excited/accepting of Joe Lieberman following around a Republican presidential candidate two elections removed from being a Veep running mate on the Dems side? What a crock.
So this is what we could look forward to in a McCain administration? Lieberman whispering advice/policy strategies into his ear. Excellent.
What a damn fool.
Go Obama!
Go USA!
Al @ 18:
Well, then you should love a Presidential candidate whose name sounds like “O-BOMB-A”! You friggin’ hillbilly!
I give it 10 days at most. Then McCain will be limited to speaking from 3×5 index cards, and his handlers will prohibit him from straying from the script. What would he have done had he not had his his two sycophants, Lieberman and Graham, nearby to bail him out of his mess.
McIdiot
not only doesn’t he know who we are fighting, he doesn’t understand the roots of “terrorism”, anti-americanism, and popular support for the the insurgency.
today’s GOP: fables, myths and lies
Hey 2! You still here?
RMac @ 30:
yes, this is the very best the GOP can come up with: a cantankerous, ignorant, flag-waving dolt
David Hawes @ 26:
Hi DH!
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Hey 2! I don’t have’refresh commets’on my m’screen fer this tread. So I gotta refresh the hole paige. Glad to see Ya!
Rico @ 33:
All good except you misspelled psychopants.
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Pantsofcash more like it.
This man does not know his arse from a hole in the ground.
Iran supporting Al-Qaeda would be like the Vatican sending guns to Protestant paramilitaries in Northern Ireland so they could kill Catholics.
Is McCain stupid, ill-informed, lying, or some combination of the three?
Casho’pants
Yep. I’d say it’s about time that the Alzheimer’s has kicked in.
This statement shows he lacks basic foreign intelligence knowledge.
I doubt it was a simple gaff, since his surrogates are pushing for him to go to war with Iran.
You can do the math right on this website; look at how many of McCain’s endorsers favor a pre-emptive strike on Iran. Statements like this are no accident- they show that he is willing to use the name Al-qaeda to get people to go along with a strike in Iran or anywhere else.
Somali Pirate? Al-Qaeda.
Libya? Al-Qaeda.
Chavez and Venezuela? Al-Qaeda.
Soon he’ll be blaming the economic downturn on Al-Qaeda in Switzerland. And if he’s president, what will stop from ordering pre-emptive strikes against Mecca or a Motown McDonalds? God know he probably will be too senile or angered to know the difference.
Ozguy @ 41:
E. All of the above, in full measure.
Ditto that
AgentX @ 43:
yep
David Hawes @ 45:
I second that Ditto - ditto ditto, as it were, a double dittofication…
Please tell me what is sadder. McCain being the Repub candidate, or the fact that all the polls show THIS loser as the next Prez right now? For all the red carpet treatment these candidates are all getting, they sure are a lackluster bunch. Empty phrases, catch slogans, and backstabbing and fighting. Obama? Great speaker. Undoubtedly the best of the group. At speaking. Hillary? She goes on television and the first impulse is to shut it off