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Tuesday, April 08, 2008

John McCain Humiliates Himself Again: Equating al Qaeda with the Shia

Really now, this is Islam 101. Al Qaeda is a Sunni group not a Shiite one. Yet McCain's gaffes during his recent ballyhooed Middle East War Presidential Candidate tour didn't provide the elementary intellectual correction. At today's Armed Services Committee he once more equated al Qaeda with the Shia:
JOHN 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. DAVID PETRAEUS: "It is a major threat. Though it is certainly as not as major a threat as it was say, 15 months ago."

MCCAIN: "Certainly not an obscure sect of the Shias overall?

PETRAEUS: "No, sir."

MCCAIN: "Or Sunnis or anybody else then?

The hyped patina of his so-called expertise notwithstanding, I increasingly get the impression that McCain's knowledge-base basically consists of the belief that all Muslims look the same to him.

Posted by Delaware Watch at Tuesday, April 08, 2008

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