posted April 08, 2008 09:22 PM            

If Hillary or Obama did this they would have been pounded.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/24015328#24015328

Did McCain once again confuse Shiites and Sunnis when talking about Al Qaeda in Iraq (a Sunni group) at today's Senate Armed Services Committee hearing?

Here's the transcript...
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?
Petraeus: It is still a major threat, though it is certainly not as major a threat as it was say 15 months ago.
McCain: Certainly not an obscure sect of the Shiites overall?
Petraeus: No, no sir.
McCain: Or Sunnis or anybody else then? Al Qaeda continues to try to assert themselves in Mosul, is that correct?
Petraeus: It is senator, as you saw on the chart. The area of operation of Al Qaeda has been greatly reduced in terms of controlling areas they controlled as little as a year and a half ago.

*** UPDATE *** McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds responds: “In the course of having a serious dialogue with our military leadership in Iraq about how Americans can formulate success going forward, John McCain stumbled on his words and corrected them immediately. Leave it to Barack Obama, who voted against funding our troops in combat after saying it would be irresponsible to make that vote, to try and find some wiggle room on an issue he has very little credibility with.”

*** UPDATE II *** DNC chairman Howard Dean weighs in with this statement: "As John McCain continues to get the basic facts on the ground in Iraq wrong, he makes it clear to the American people that he will continue the open-ended commitment to fighting President Bush's war in Iraq. One hundred years in Iraq is not a plan. We all honor the service and sacrifices of our brave troops and their families, who have done everything that has been asked of them every step of the way. Honoring their service means bringing this war to a responsible end, and the only way to do that is to elect a Democratic president in November."

posted April 08, 2008 10:17 PM            

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Shi’ites, Sunnis…McCain covered his butt and lumped them all in. He’s like the kid in the FedEx commercial who can’t locate China on a world map so he “accidentally” falls and tears it off the wall

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posted April 08, 2008 10:25 PM            

Why does this senile assbag McCain still not get it?

Hillary showed her mastery as a president to be

Obama was like a philosopher talking to Petraeus. Nothing will be done. You can't find a black cat in a dark room. But he was better than Mccain.

posted April 08, 2008 10:43 PM            

I think you too don't recall who are the people behind 911. How could you when your own candidate cannot?

posted April 08, 2008 11:17 PM            

Doubly doubtful since the main groups US forces are concerned about right now are the so called Shiite Mahdi militias.

It's really desperation time when leftists see their own socialist candidates giving so much ammunition to Republicans on a daily basis. All will be carefully sorted, evaluated and surprise, as soon as one of these socialists is the candidate, it's buckle up time.

posted April 09, 2008 09:55 AM            

AQI consists of Sunnis and McSenile immediately corrected himself from Shiite to Sunni

Amazing....5 times gaffe on the McSenile meter

posted April 09, 2008 10:45 AM            

Neither of these socialists is even remotely qualified to be President of the United States. They are however the very best of the socialist twits which infest the far left demoscat party.

posted April 09, 2008 11:06 AM            

Thats a very Zen statement my enlightened buddy without an ounce of enlightenment