MCCAIN WAS RIGHT! MEDIA DEAD WRONG!

The media is now telling us what THEY WANT US TO BELIEVE DESPITE THE FACTS. Look at this headline, McCain mistakenly accuses Iran of helping al-Qaeda    - "mistakenly?" Huh? Of course their souce is the Associated with terrorists Press.

Expect more lies and deception to undermine the McCain Campaign

Atlas Shrugs: Iran Supplies Missiles to  Al Qaeda in Iraq 5/19/2006

Atlas Shrugs: IRAN: AL QAEDA HEADQUARTERSTHE CASE FOR WAR 7/17/07

Iran Is Found To Be a Lair of Al Qaeda - July 17, 2007 -

9/11 Commission Finds Ties Between al-Qaeda and Iran  7/16/2004

Michael J. Totten: Al Qaeda in Iran

FOXNews.com - Intercepts Show Senior Al Qaeda in Iran Played Role ...

MI5: Iran and Al Qaeda Planning an attack on “a par with Hiroshima ...

Now check out the lead in today's Denver Post.

McCain mistakenly accuses Iran of helping al-Qaeda Denver Post

The Shiite nation is not believed to be aiding its Sunni rivals. Democrats assail the gaffe.

By Alfred de Montesquiou
The Associated Press<

AMMAN, Jordan — Sen. John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting, mistakenly said Tuesday that Iran was allowing al-Qaeda fighters into the country to be trained and returned to Iraq.

McCain, expressing concern about Iran's rising sway in the Mideast, said, "Al-Qaeda is going back into Iran and is receiving training and are coming back into Iraq from Iran." He made the comments Tuesday at a news conference in Jordan; he made similar comments earlier to radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt.

Iran is a predominantly Shiite Muslim country and has been at pains to close its borders to al-Qaeda fighters of the rival Sunni sect.

Iran has been accused by the United States of funding, training and arming Iraqi Shiite militants in their uprising against the United States. But there have been no allegations by Washington and no evidence that al-Qaeda has benefited from Iranian assistance.

After Sen. Joe Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut who was traveling with McCain, stepped forward to whisper in the candidate's ear, McCain said: "I'm sorry; the Iranians are training the extremists, not al-Qaeda. Not al-Qaeda. I'm sorry."

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McCain, who has linked his political future to U.S. success in Iraq, had just completed his eighth visit to Iraq. He was in the war-torn country on Monday for meetings with Iraqi and U.S. diplomatic and military officials.

McCain's gaffe immediately drew criticism from the Democratic National Committee, which insisted he must not understand the challenges facing Iraq.

The Democratic National Committee soon to be renamed The Democratic Jihadist National Committee.

"Not only is Sen. McCain wrong on Iraq once again, but he showed he either doesn't understand the challenges facing Iraq and the region or is willing to ignore the facts on the ground," said Democratic National Committee communications director Karen Finney.

The very definition of moonbattery of the most evil kind

UPDATE: And Van adds:

Iraq Report: Babil Awakening, Al Qaeda-Iran Liaison Captured

Also, during a raid in Khanaqin, Coalition forces captured a "liaison
to al-Qaeda in Iraq senior leaders, who assists in the movement of
information and documents from al-Qaeda in Iraq leadership in Baghdad
to al-Qaeda senior leaders in Iran." Al Qaeda leaders such as Saif al
Adel and Said bin Laden, Osama's son, are being sheltered in Iran
along with an estimated 100 al Qaeda senior operatives.

Posted by Bill Roggio on May 31, 2007 02:48 PM

 

Comments

[Harcourt Fenton]

Of course they go after him for this. These are the same idiots who repeat the lie that McCain wants the war to last 100 years. He doesn't want a hot war to last that long; he's just stating the obvious that we may need to have troops in the region well beyond the end of the hot war, like we still have troops in Germany, Japan, Korea and elsewhere.

[pythagoras]

Hasn't anyone noticed that al-Qaeda leader Ousamah bin Laden wears an IRANIAN-style turban and not an Arab-style turban?

ps--al-Qaeda could very well have been founded by the Iranian mullahs, despite widespread belief to the contrary.

[Adam Stanhope]

It would be best for all concerned to leave this one alone. McCain didn't simply make a slip of the tongue here - he was talking about organized al-Qaeda support within Iran which we all know simply isn't happening. His statement made him look like the old fool that he is and is damaging to his foreign policy / war on terror credentials. Those of us leaping to his defense in this matter look just as foolish. McCain as Republican candidate for President and his followers don't want to be seen as a group of chicken littles left we get laughed out of any serious discussion of security and middle east policy.

This isn't a case of McCain's words being misconstrued and/or parsed incorrectly. It is a case of his zeal for war and paranoia about the enemy getting the better of him.

Let's let this embarrassing episode fade away quietly.