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The McCain Sunni/Shiite mixup
So we're all familiar with McCain's infamous mix up of Sunnis and Shiites at this point. He stated that it was well documented that Al Qaeda from Iraq was traveling to Iran to receive training and then returning to Iraq, which is clearly impossible, unless the Sunnis and the Shiites have miraculously solved their age-old dispute.
What is most troubling to me isn't even that John McCain, self proclaimed foreign policy expert, mixed up very basic knowledge about the Middle East. What's most troubling to me is that in this mix up it's undeniably clear that McCain was trying to mislead the public. Obviously, he knew that it wasn't well documented in the media that Al Qaeda in Iraq was traveling to Iran. But he didn't know that his statement was an impossibility, meaning that the MSM could not have possibly documented it. So, he thought he could get away with saying that it was well documented in order to sway the public to his candidacy. Little did he know, he would be shown for the deceiver that he is.
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