Politico: McCain cites questionable story on 'evil' at Saddleback

[npincus]

Yawn. Another McCain confabulation.


http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0808/McCain_cites_questionable_story_on_evil.html

"Not long ago in Baghdad, Al Qaeda took two young women who were mentally disabled and put suicide vests on them, sent them into a marketplace, and by remote control, detonated those suicide vests," McCain told Rick Warren. "If that isn't evil, you have to tell me what is."

The horrifying story that terrorists used two women with Down Syndrome to carry bombs was a sensation in February, but The New York Times later suggested it hadn't happened that way:

Psychiatric case files of two female suicide bombers who killed nearly 100 people in Baghdad this month show that they suffered from depression and schizophrenia but do not contain information indicating they had Down Syndrome, American officials said Wednesday.

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Not that the suicide bombings weren't evil enough. But the Down Syndrome bombers — as they were described at the time — seems to be an urban legend.

[hisownpetard]

1. Guess McCone doesn't know how to watch that GooTube thingamajig OR find the Snopes webbed sight.

And Cindy wasn't home that day to "GO ONLINE" for him.

[Indenturedebtor]

2. Oh what does a puke care about the truth?

It doesn't matter what's true, it's what they can use to steal the election.

I wonder if any of them realise on their deathbeds that they have lved their lives as the bad guy?

[gateley]

3. He's like Reagan - always confusing movies (or books, or..) with reality. Pity. nt