Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Howard Dean On McCain Is A Scream

Powerline has a post on the attacks on McCain from the Democrats. One is from Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean:
Last night, Howard Dean issued his latest mean-spirited and, this time, incomprehensible attack on McCain:
John McCain is so wrong on Iraq, he can't even get the basic facts about the situation on the ground correct.

Today, as he was questioning Gen. David Petraeus, he again confused the difference between Shiite and Sunni Muslims.

At least five times as a candidate John McCain has stated that Iran (a Shiite nation) is supporting Al-Qaeda (a Sunni group) in Iraq. This is not some minor mistake, but a significant gaffe. He clearly does not understand the sensitive political dynamics in that region of the world.

What's worse is that he's done it at important times when you'd expect him to be at his best -- he did it today in the Senate while questioning the commander of American forces in Iraq, and he did it on a recent trip to the Middle East. ***

We just can't afford someone who just doesn't understand Iraq -- it's too dangerous.
Actually, it is Howard Dean who is clueless. Just ask Hamas-Iraq:
Hamas-Iraq: Al-Qaeda in Iraq is Subservient to Iran; 'The U.S. is Our Main Enemy, But a More Dangerous Enemy is Iran'

In a March 26, 2008 interview with the Qatari daily Al-'Arab, the spokesman for the Iraqi Sunni jihad organization Hamas-Iraq, Ahmad Salah Al-Din, accused Al-Qaeda in Iraq of regarding most Iraqi resistance factions as its main enemy, of subservience to Iran, and of receiving from it weapons, funds, training, and medical care for its wounded. Salah Al-Din added that in the past year Al-Qaeda in Iraq had become considerably weaker and smaller.

"Salah Al-Din accused Al-Qaeda of being subservient to Iran, [claiming] that they had [extensive] evidence to that effect. He said: 'We found Iranian [currency], toman, at an Al-Qaeda headquarters that we uncovered. We have also captured Iranian weapons, not to mention audio and video recordings containing announcements by Al-Qaeda fighters that they had received training in Iranian military camps and that Al-Qaeda wounded were being transported to Iran for medical treatment.'
Read the entire interview.

It is not the first time Democrats have erred in their attacks on McCain. Whatever your view of McCain as presidential material or whether he is 'good for Israel,' let's first find out exactly what he is saying, whether it is accurate--and then judge.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wrong, for many, many reasons. But for starters, even McCain's own spokesman admitted: "John McCain stumbled on his words and corrected them immediately" in the Petaeus interview. And the next day McCain addressed it on Fox and made matters even worse. He's clueless.

Daled Amos said...

If you are right, then we are really in trouble. What kind of choice is there between McCain and Obama?