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Wednesday, March 19 2008, 02:39 PM McCain Mixes Up Iraqi Groups John McCain incorrectly asserted Tuesday that Iran is training and supplying al Qaeda in Iraq, confusing the Sunni insurgent group with the Shiite extremists, the Washington Post reports. 27 News Stories, 9 Liberal Blogs, 4 Conservative Blogs Post A Comment

MyDD Mccain Still Pressing False Connection Between Iran And Al Qaeda After eight years of an administration that fudged intelligence to suggest a relationship between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda in order to get us into a protracted war in Iraq, are Americans really going to vote for a presidential candidate who is more tha

Yet Another Web Site John Mccain: Foreign Policy Expert Foreign policy expert John McCain can’t be bothered to learn some “minor” details about the war he so enthusiastically supports. A McCain Gaffe in Jordan: Sen. John McCain, traveling in the Middle East to promote his foreign policy

Think Progress Campaign Denies Mccain?s Iran/al Qaeda ?gaffe.? Today, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said that Iranian operatives are ?taking al-Qaeda into Iran, training them and sending them back” — despite the fact that Iran is a Shiite nation and al Qaeda are Sunni fighters. Responding to reports of McCain&

Think Progress Cafferty On Mccain ?gaffe?: ?what Kind Of Leadership Is That?? Today on CNN, Jack Cafferty said John McCain’s confusion over Iran and al Qaeda poses serious issues about his leadership: If John McCain makes another mistake like he did yesterday — where he got the Shia confused with the Sunni confused with

Informed Comment 5 Years, 5 Lies: Cole In Salon My fortnightly column for Salon.com is now up, commemorating the 5th anniversary of Bush's invasion of Iraq:'Five years of Iraq lies:' How President Bush and his advisors have spent each year of the war peddling mendacious tales about a mission accomplis

Daily Kos Obama Takes It To Mccain On Iraq War In a brilliant pivot away from race, Obama capitalized in North Carolina this morning on McCain's confusion yesterday about the relationship between Iran and Al Qaeda: Now we know what we'll hear from those like John McCain who support open-ended war. T

Brendan Nyhan John Mccain Fails The Jeff Stein Test John McCain touts his military and foreign policy experience, but apparently doesn't understand the most basic distinctions between Sunnis and Shiites (i.e. Iran is Shiite, Al Qaeda is Sunni). I think it's time for reporters to ask all of our leaders the

Think Progress Mccain Modifies His Al Qaeda In Iran Claim. Yesterday, after Sen. John McCain embarrassed himself by falsely claiming on multiple occasions that Iranian operatives are “taking al-Qaeda into Iran, training them and sending them back,” right-wing bloggers argued that “he shouldn?t h

The Carpetbagger Report Mccain Compounds Al Qaeda Gaffe By Repeating For A Fourth Time When John McCain got confused yesterday about Sunni and Shiite, Iran and al Qaeda, his campaign issued a statement insisting that McCain “misspoke and immediately corrected himself.” The explanation is far less plausible when McCain makes the

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politburo diktat 2.0 Ignorance Is Strength McCain misspeaks on Iraq Mr. McCain said several times in his visit to Jordan ? in a news conference and in a radio interview ? that he was concerned that Iran was training Al Qaeda in Iraq. The United States believes that Iran, a Shiite country, has been

Daily Pundit Mccain Was (gulp) Right Marc Ambinder (March 18, 2008) - Iran’s Helping Sunnis Or Shiites? Pressed to elaborate, McCain said it was “common knowledge and has been reported in the media that al-Qaeda is going back into Iran and receiving training and are coming

memeorandum Mccain Repeats Iran-al Qaeda Gaffe Yet Again (sam Stein/the Huffington Post) Sam Stein / The Huffington Post: McCain Repeats Iran-Al Qaeda Gaffe Yet Again — Sen. John McCain has done it again. — For the third time in two days, the Arizona Republican has pushed the definitively false statement t

memeorandum Mccain Was Right, Iran Works With Al Qaeda (thomas Joscelyn/weekly Standard Blog) Thomas Joscelyn / Weekly Standard Blog: McCain Was Right, Iran Works with Al Qaeda — Some bloggers are jumping all over Senator John McCain for his supposed “gaffe” today. According to The Trail, a blog over at the Was