It wasn't any kind of explosive device that ripped
John McCainto shreds as he toured Iraq today, it was the sheer destructive power of his own mouth.
Don't worry, he's perfectly healthy, alive, well and running for president. But the presumptive Republican nominee for president told reporters that it is "widely known" that
Iran is training and providing material support to
al-Qaeda in Iraq.
Tim Dickinson of
Rolling Stone points out that, "Al Qaeda and Iran are on separate sides of a schism that has existed in Islam for the last 13 centuries or so," and thus
McCain's assertion is more than just highly unlikely– it's completely factually incorrect.
McCain has been in Congress since before time began. He has loads of "foreign policy experience." He was fought in wars. He has spent years buried in a box underground. But wen it comes to Iraq, he's completely clueless. That's why he was going down in flames last summer.
With the situation there somewhat improved, people forgot how out of touch this guy is. Thanks to comments like this one,
McCain won't let the public go too much longer without reminding them.
