(”You wish I was al Qaeda, McCain. I’m Moqtada al Sadr. Iran gives me money and trains my Mahdi Militia. If I call off my cease fire, bye-bye surge success…”)
I’m not one to read DailyKos often, but they nailed John McCain flubbing the mythic Iran-al Qaeda link not just once but three times. First, in late Feb at a think tank in late February. Next in an interview on the 17th of March. And finallythe clip we all saw this week from Jordan. Everyone in urban American with a pulse knows the difference between Shia and Sunni—and the fact they’re one another in Iraq. McCain can’t get off easy here. Once is a mistake; thrice is a misunderstanding of the central dynamic in McCain’s main campaign issue, Iraq. All this “Now I respect Senator McCain” prefacing needs to stop.
McCain was held for five years in the Hanoi Hilton, a North Vietnamese torture den, a place that makes Abu Ghriab look like, uh, a regular Hilton. He’s insane, literally crazy. No one has done a better job showing McCain’s a pure kook than Connie Bruck in the New Yorker.
Remember a few weeks ago when McCain lost it on the Times’ Elizabeth Bumiller? When asked if he’d spoken to Kerry in 04 about being VP, McCain short circuited:
“Everybody knows that I had a private conversation. Everybody knows that, that I had a conversation,” McCain told the reporter. “And you know it, too. No. You know it, too. No. You do know. You do know.”
Ahh, I’m crrrraaazzzyyy. You do know!
TAGS: Al-Qaeda, Iran, Iraq, John McCain, mccain, NATO, New York, NSA
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