Barack Obama and
John McCain went back and fourth on Iraq today.
McCain has been traveling in the Middle East and has provided plenty of wisdom about the situation along the way, including a much publicized gaffe where he accused Iran of funding and arming
Al Qaeda in Iraq. He's repeated the claim twice since then.
Obama has picked up on this (between shots at
Hillary Clinton). "Maybe that is why he voted to go to war with a country that had no Al Qaeda ties,"
Obama said. "Maybe that is why he completely fails to understand that the war in Iraq has done more to embolden America's enemies than any strategic choice that we have made in decades."
The
McCain camp's response was hardly a sound bite. "Iran, which trains Shia extremists and is known to arm and equip Sunni extremists, a fact Senator Obama is apparently unaware of, will also view our premature withdrawal as a victory, as will other countries in the region, and the biggest state supporter of terrorists, a country with nuclear ambitions and a stated desire to destroy the State of Israel, will see its influence in the Middle East grow significantly," said a spokesman who clearly struggles breaking different thoughts down into separate sentences.
When our national leaders bicker this way, there's only one clear winner: Terror.
