In Senate hearing McCain again muddles the whole Shiite-Al Qaeda connections

[sabra]

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/04/mccains_al_qaeda_confusion.html

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At today's Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, McCain once again seemed to make a muddle of the whole Shiite-Al Qaeda thing. It came in this exchange with Gen. David Petraeus.

SEN. MCCAIN: There are numerous threats to security in Iraq and the future of Iraq. Do you still view al Qaeda in Iraq as a major threat?
GEN. PETRAEUS: It is still a major threat, though it is certainly not as major a threat as it was, say, 15 months ago.

SEN. MCCAIN: Certainly not an obscure sect of the Shi'ites, all overall, or Sunnis or anybody else.


Good thing he quickly threw Sunnis in there. At least he didn't need Lieberman to bail him out this time.

[Ichingcarpenter]

1. Thom Hartman just pointed out McCain got the Sunnis and Shiites

wrong again.... He really wants to say Islamofascists but know
that won't fly.

[magellan]

2. He had to play the terror card to remind us why we're there

Too bad he's 1) working with 99% fiction and 2) as willfully ignorant as the CiC he intends to replace.

[alstephenson]

3. I heard this exchange this morning. McCain is a senile idiot.

What a tool.

[Coexist]

4. I can't wait for the greatest hits of his errors in the GE