Another McCane gaffe...the Iraq/Pakistan border

[baghdad_bush]

From the Huffingtonpost..

Asked by Diane Sawyer whether the "the situation in Afghanistan in precarious and urgent," McCain responded: "I think it's serious. . . . It's a serious situation, but there's a lot of things we need to do. We have a lot of work to do and I'm afraid it's a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq/Pakistan border."

But as ABC's Rick Klein noted: "Iraq and Pakistan do not share a border. Afghanistan and Pakistan do."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/21/mccain-owns-first-foreign_n_114013.html

[Kierkegaard]

1. McCain, the geography pretzeldent.

[KansDem]

2. Will ABC's Rick Klein have a job tomorrow?

Seriously, though, will the MSM run with this like they would if it had been Obama who made such a remark?

[Fleshdancer]

3. What are the people located on this mythical border called? Iraqistanians?

Perhaps this is what Obama and Gen. Petraeus were laughing about on the helicopter?

[MidwestTransplant]

4. Not a gaffe if you Remove Iran from the equation.

[mvd]

5. LOL

At least the gaffe WAS pointed out.

[TexasObserver]

6. Yeah, Iraq & Pakistan have a common border with Czechoslovakia and Xanadu, right?

And they're all part of the Soviet Union.

McCain is clearly senile, and he proves that every day.

[VolcanoJen]

7. But... but.... McCain is a Military and Foreign Policy Genius!!!!!

Never you mind about the perilous situation on the border of two countries which are nowhere near each other!! :rofl:

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/21/mccain-warns-of-hard-struggle-on-the-iraq-pakistan-border/

[zulchzulu]

8. McCain can see into the future...where Iraq WILL border Pakistan

After he blows the shit out of Iran and does some boundary changing, the countries will border, my ferrrendz...

[mvd]

10. Repuke candidates don't need to know things like..

geography. Their whole purpose is to serve their rich and corporate masters: lower taxes, start war, throw a bone to evangelicals and social conservatives, deregulation, lower taxes again, continue the war..

[The_Casual_Observer]

9. "It's a serious situation" I'll say. The sob is so strung out on viagra

that he can't think straight about anything else.

[tekisui]

11. Unfit for Command.

[Imagevision]

12. Mccain; "where the hell was Lieberman...?!!!

[Douglas Carpenter]

13. John McCain is no foreign policy expert. He would not even pass a challenging eighth grade geograph...

test,

The representation of Sen. McCain as someone knowledgeable about foreign policy issues is nothing short of a transparent hoax that would become patently obvious if the media were not as informationally challenged as he is.