More McCain Misunderstandings
Posted by Michael Link on April 7, 2008 at 11:24 AM
You can't really call them gaffes, when it's what he really understands to be the situation in Iraq:
"It was al-Sadr that declared the ceasefire, not Maliki," said McCain. "With respect, I don't think Sadr would have declared the ceasefire if he thought he was winning. [...]"It is a convenient interpretation for a candidate who later went on to tout the political successes of the American troop surge. But it seems to contradict almost all news accounts from last week. Indeed, it was the Iranian government and members of Maliki's government who brokered the ceasefire, not Sadr.
That was the first one. The second echoes what John McCain has been saying since this war began -- that things are going swell and that we just need to stay the course.
Just add these to the growing list of McCain's failure to understand the situation on the ground in Iraq.
