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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-08-08 01:23 PM
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McCain on Al Qaeda in Iraq - screws it up again
Edited on Tue Apr-08-08 01:23 PM by spanone
you'd think someone who wants to be commander in cheif would be able to identify the enemy


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Senator John McCain appeared to get momentarily tangled over Al Qaeda in Iraq on Tuesday while questioning Gen. David H. Petraeus at a Senate hearing in Washington.

It happened just after Mr. McCain asked General Petraeus if he still viewed Al Qaeda in Iraq, a Sunni group, as a major threat, and elicited the response that “It is still a major threat, though it is certainly not as major a threat as it was, say, 15 month ago.’’

Mr. McCain responded: “Certainly not an obscure sect of the Shiites over all…’’

To which General Petraeus replied “no.’

As Mr. McCain continued, “or the Sunnis or anybody else.’’

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/08/mccain-on-al-qaeda-in-iraq/
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