McCain Still Has No Idea What He's Talking About
This is his third position in three days.
Day 1: The night before last, on Hugh Hewitt's radio show, McCain claimed without evidence that Iranian operatives are "taking al-Qaeda into Iran, training them, and sending them back."
Day 2: Yesterday, after repeating the claim, and after Joe Lieberman corrected him, he admitted that his earlier claim wasn't true. His campaign said that while he was wrong, he "corrected" himself -- although they didn't note that he made the comment repeatedly, and the first time it wasn't corrected.
Day 3: That brings us to today. In his statement about the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq, he's claiming that "Al Qaeda and Shia extremists — with support from external powers such as Iran — are on the run but not defeated." As Think Progress notes, "to the critics of his gaffe, he can say the aside about Iran is referring to 'Shia extermists,' but he can also tell his right-wing critics that it refers to 'al Qaeda.'"
But more important that the false nature of any particular claim, the fact that McCain's camp keeps changing their story every day just underscores that they have absolutely no idea what's going on over there.
And again, not knowing the basics about this war isn't stopping him from calling for it to last 100 years.
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