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Dear John McCain,

Repeatedly over the last few days you have made what your fluffers call a “gaffe” in describing the current situation in Iraq. You keep trying to tell people that Iran is sponsoring al Qaeda in Iraq, which is absurd on its face, and in a moment I will explain to you why. But I would like to begin by saying that your repeated flub indicates one of two things, neither of which is just that you’re an easily confused but lovable “cranky old man” as Ana Marie Cox sighingly described you to Howard Kurtz on CNN.

Either you honestly don’t understand what’s happening in the region and that ignorance is showing, in spite of the press establishment’s (and wifey Joe Lieberman’s) feverish efforts to prop you up, or you are deliberately lying to bolster the case for a military strike against Iran, neither of which is an acceptable option for a man with his sights set on the highest office in the land. If you had made the mistake once or even twice, perhaps it would be a different matter, an honest error made by a doddering old fool who can’t keep his index cards straight. (That would be fine if we were casting a sequel to Cocoon, by the way, but not at all okay in terms of choosing a president.) But you have kept saying it again and again, which leads me to believe that you honestly don’t understand the basic facts of the war on the ground in Iraq or that you’re willing to openly lie about it to trick the American people into following you into another ridiculous, pointless, expensive war.

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