All week we've been hearing about all those trips McCain has made to Iraq. We know about some of them. Like the one where he claimed he could stroll safely through a Baghdad. Or the one recently where he didn't know the difference between Sunnis and Shi'as.
Just yesterday, McCain was talking about how "quiet" Mosul is. But, Nico Pitney compared McCain's words to what was actually happening yesterday in Mosul:
Moreover, McCain's claim that Mosul is "quiet" was disproved earlier today in grim fashion. Three suicide bombings -- two in Mosul and another in a surrounding town -- left 30 Iraqis dead and more than two dozen injured, according to press reports.Is it possible for the traditional media to grasp the fact that on Iraq, McCain really doesn't know what he's talking about? McCain gets basic facts wrong -- and he makes things up. Haven't we had enough of that on Iraq? Seriously.
UDPATE 11:24 a.m.: Someone in the traditional media gets it. Via Think Progress, CNN's Michael Ware, who is in Baghdad and has been there for awhile, had this to say about McCain and Iraq:
WARE: I’ll issue a word of caution, too. I mean Senator McCain has been here, what, more than half a dozen times. And we’ve seen him get assessments of Iraq terribly wrong. So I wouldn’t be hanging my hat on the fact that your opponent has only been here once.
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