Blogging on Meds

While minuscule compared to the orchestrated muddling of Middle Eastern factions in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq, further botching by a presidential front-runner of the clear divisions that exist between “insurgent elements” and “rogue states” in the area is not something we need.

The Washington Post reports today: “Sen. John McCain, in the midst of a trip to the Middle East that he hoped would help burnish his foreign policy expertise, incorrectly asserted Tuesday that Iran is training and supplying al-Qaeda in Iraq, confusing the Sunni insurgent group with the Shiite extremists who U.S. officials believe are supported by their religious brethren in the neighboring country.”

Rad. As the rhetoric against Iran increases, linking the Ayatollah-led state to Al-Qaeda [in Iraq] is not only stupid, but dangerous.

McCain said: “We continue to be concerned about Iranian [operatives] taking al-Qaeda into Iran, training them and sending them back.” (WP)

He continued, saying it is “…common knowledge and has been reported in the media that al-Qaeda is going back into Iran and receiving training and are coming back into Iraq from Iran; that’s well known.”

Bush said in 2004: “The reason I keep insisting that there was a relationship between Iraq and Saddam and al Qaeda [is] because there was a relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda.”

Sounds like a blatant effort to drum up support for military action against Iran to me.
Note: On the campaign trail last summer, McCain thought it appropriate to perform his own rendition of the Beach Boys song “Barbara Ann”, substituting the chorus with “Bomb Iran”.

Vote Obama.

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