McCain calls al Qaeda "an obscure sect of the Shi'ites"

MCCAIN: Do you still view al Qaeda in Iraq as a major threat?

PETRAEUS: It is still a major threat, though it is certainly not as major a threat as it was say 15 months ago.

MCCAIN: Certainly not an obscure sect of the Shi'ites overall?

PETREAUS: No.

MCCAIN: Or Sunnis or anybody else.

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[RationalLiberty]

al queda is sunni right? Thats why Iran helped kill them because Iran is shia correct?

Hehe, the difference between me and Mccain asking this question is because

this was his platform-we gotta kill the "terrorists"

and isnt he on the armed services committee?

Man this man is a dimwit. (I think he was almost last in his class at the Naval Academy as well)

[RationalLiberty]

actually it does matter. Especially for a man who makes exterminating terrorists a number one priority. Especially for a man on the armed services committee, and for a man who wishes to be commander in chief during the "global war on terror" (TM).

If you dont know what sect of Islam you are fighting against, it can hurt our foreign relations, and hurt any badly needed alliances.

[MzDragonfyre]

@RationalLiberty Yes, Sunni not Shiite...just plain ignorance pure and simple here.

[ECDHollis]

And you are an arrogant bastard.

[chunhaylee]

AMEN! Let's see- we have one candidate who graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard, and another candidate who graduated 894 out of 899 at the Naval Academy.... geez what a tough choice, eh?

[herpescrabman]

93.52 % of americans are ignorent or stupid

[turfsown]

AMERICA AMERICA LMFAO woof woof fukin idiots

[waddleduckie1]

Hmm He think that Shiites are Al Qaeda and not Sunnis? Well it is a mixture of the two? And the Shiites are from Iran? Are you kidding me? All I can see that McCain is color blind and stupid. Maybe McCain should go and pay his friend a visit in Iran.

[paulatition]

where are McCains medical records?

why is he hiding them?

i would need to know about the mental state of a future president before i voted.

wouldn't you?

[superm401]

He was saying they're still major, not that they're Sunni. The emphasis is clearly on "NOT obscure", not "NOT Shia"

[Psuedogenius]

the rocketing situation and the suicide bombing of the marine barracks in the 80's when we were supporting the legitimate government in lebanon, in most peoples estimation, counts as terrorism. But of course we can disagree.

[bloom6]

he finished 894 out of 899 in his graduating class, can we really afford another stupid president