McCAIN IS WORSE THAN I THOUGHT

I would think he would've been too ashamed about the statements he made after his recent trip to a Baghad market to do any more war whoring, but I was wrong.

This crap is from his op-ed in the Sunday edition of the WaPo, "The War You're Not Reading About."

McCAIN:

Extremist Shiite militia leader Moqtada al-Sadr is in hiding, his followers are not contesting American forces..

REALITY:

U.S. and Iraqi Troops Fight Shiite Militia
By STEVEN R. HURST
AP
Updated:2007-04-07 20:18:20

BAGHDAD (April 7) - U.S. warplanes blasted a militia team firing rocket-propelled grenades Saturday, the second day of heavy fighting in a major offensive to drive Shiite Mahdi Army militiamen out of Diwaniyah, a farm-belt city south of Baghdad .

The U.S.-Iraqi drive into Diwaniyah -- named "Operation Black Eagle" -- began before dawn Friday.

The Mahdi Army, the focus of the offensive, is run by radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who had ordered Baghdad militiamen to lay down their weapons during the security crackdown in the capital.

Many of the Diwaniyah fighters were thought to have left Baghdad and were using the American preoccupation with the capital to cement their hold on parts of the southern city.