POLITICS-US: McCain’s Gaffes Reflect Bush’s Iran-Qaeda Myth
WASHINGTON, Mar 21 (IPS) – Sen. John McCain’s confusion in recent allegations of Iranian training of al Qaeda fighters in Iraq is the result of a drumbeat of official propaganda about close Iran-al Qaeda ties that the George W. Bush administration and neoconservatives have promoted ever since early 2002.McCain, the Republican nominee for the presidency, was confusing the Bush administration’s charges of Iranian training of Shi’a militiamen associated with the Mahdi Army with the administration’s propaganda theme of Iranian tacit or explicit support for al Qaeda operatives in Iran — charges which have amplified by right-wing media.
Terrorists is terrorists and they are bad. No matter where they are from. They’re all the same.
Even a lowly Robot Pirate Ninja knows that.
/posted in blue to confuse and befuddle our elderly readers.
//that one is in red for confuse them further.
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