McCain displays his “mastery” of the situation in Iraq
March 18th, 2008 by Sonny
Or perhaps he displays his senility:
UPDATED: McCain makes a major mistake about a very basic Iraq issue — two days in a row - AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth
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.”
He just shot himself in the foot, twice. There’s another example with audio from the Hugh Hewitt radio show. Are we gonna leave him in charge of the really big guns? Seriously, this kind of mistake shows a profound misunderstanding of the situation of the kind with the mistakes that got us in Iraq in the first place. So, was he that monumentally ignorant or have his 71 years caught up with him? Either way it’s not what I want to see from someone who wants to make the decisions in the Oval Office. He did serious damage to the central theme of his candidacy: that John McCain is the voice of knowledge and experience on national security issues. Not so much…
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