Wednesday, July 23, 2008

The World according to McCain

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The candidate who touts his foreign policy credentials believes that:

  • Al-Qaeda is a Shia organization (it is Sunni).
  • Iranians were training Iraqi Al Qaeda operatives in Iran and then sending them back into Iraq (Iranis are Shias and sworn enemies of the Sunni Al Qaeda).
  • Iraq shares a border with Pakistan (it is Afghanistan; Iraq is 700 miles away).
  • Czechoslovakia still exists (the country split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993).
  • Vladimir Putin is the President of Germany (Germany doesn't have a President, but a Chancellor; at present it is Angela Merkel)
  • Darfur is a region in Somalia (it is in Sudan).
  • By the spring of 2008, our troops were “down to pre-surge levels” (there were 20,000 more troops than when the surge policy began).
  • Steelers and Packers are two names of the same team (Pittsburgh Steelers/Green Bay Packers).
  • "The government should be able to deliver bottled hot water to dehydrated babies."
This is the change we'll have to believe in, possibly.

For details, see this article

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