John McCain doesn't know shit about Iraq.

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John McCain’s entire case for his own campaign is that having spent 5 1/2 years as a POW in Vietnam makes him an expert on the Middle East/Islamic terrorism/military strategy, etc.

Apparently, though, Senator McCain doesn’t know the first fucking thing about the ME:

This guy is selling himself on his foreign policy cred and he doesn’t know the fucking difference between Sunni and Shia or aQ and the insurgency?

I bet Barack Obama knows. I bet Hillary knows. I bet even Dubya knows by now. I am not at all reassured by the thought of someone who knows less about the Iraq situation than I do getting into the White House. We’ve already had eight years of that.

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Obviously he cares about Iraq.

He cares about exploiting the ME to win votes in November. He doesn’t give a shit about actually finishing the war well, if that was ever possible.

No one that will vote for him knows why Sunni and Shia matter. As far as his likely voters are concerned they are a bunch of ragheads.

He might give 2 shits for the soldiers who may die for his conceit.

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Well, really what difference does it make, its the End Times anyway…

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He knows more about everything than you do, so shut the fuck up, please.

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Are you serious?

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Which one of us? Cause you would know.

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I still wonder.
What don’t I know?

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Its like Colin Powell all over again, a decent and honorable man debased and degraded by his own ambition.

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I always thought what undid Powell was being a good soldier…

Not ambition.

Could be wrong.

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Obviously, everyone who hates America is part of Al Qaeda. Iran, communists, Phred Phelps, Mr. Rogers…

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Al Qaeda is like porn. You know it when you see it.

And seeing it where you damn well feel like seeing it in the conservative bible.

Now when is someone going to reach under this stall and jerk me off?

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Gramps McSame has been a bit foggy and has been distracted by poorly-fitting dentures and Depends that have a tendency to ride up. Plus, he’s not getting a regular nap these days.

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I think his youngest son is deployed there, so I am not sure I can agree with this.

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This is the part where people jump in to say, “I bet the other potential candidates aren’t experts in the Middle-East either! So just shut up about it, nyah!” while totally (possibly deliberately) missing the point that THEY have not set themselves up as experts in foreign policy. Which I know you already said, but you and I BOTH know that no matter how many times we say it, the whole “hypocrite” thing will be expertly evaded by his supporters.

I say “evaded” because if it’s brought up, they’ll slickly get back off of the point. I’ve watched it happen over and over.

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First of all, McCain did correct himself.

Secondly, there have been operational links between al-Qaeda and Iran many times, and McCain knows this. Frankly, I’m shocked that the OP doesn’t. So it isn’t as if he was saying something that was so terribly off.

Just as an initial cite to those that may doubt what I said above, I’ll just quote from the report of the 9/11 Commission. I’m sure all of you do recall that implementation of all of their recommendations was a Democratic campaign promise.

From page 61:

There is of course more, but I think this proves the overall point.

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Only after a “Democrat” whispered the correction in his ear. :smiley:
I don’t think this was a simple mistake, or shows that McCain is going senile. I think it’s more an indication that the candidate is confusing his fantasy notion of how the world is put together with the real thing. You get votes by promoting the fantasy, and results by dealing with the reality. It can be bloody confusing having to hold both systems within the confines of a single mind.

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No, someone corrected him. This was no slip of the tongue either as he said it in at least two seperate situations

That sound familiar to you? This isn’t from the OP though it’s from a interview he did.

http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/talkradio/transcripts/Transcript.aspx?ContentGuid=ae522a49-6c82-4791-a76e-44ebb718bf32

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So you are saying this Turabi fellow is some sort of al-Qaeda operative? I thought he was a Sudanese political leader who has some ties to Bin Ladin.

Maybe you could post something linking Iran to al-Qaeda in Iraq? Because that is the point of this discusion.

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If he did just misspeak, why did say the same thing earlier on HughHewitt’s radio show?

Secondly, if you believe that there is a lot of love in Iran for AQI, you have certainly deluded yourself.

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I hate to be dense, but isn’t there a country that has many demonstrable ties to Al Qaeda yet never seems to be on the receiving end of US threats?

I think there is at least one, but I’m not sure. I think it rhymes with Howdy Labia.

If we really wanted to get tough on terrorism, wouldn’t we put Howdy Labia on notice?