McCain Links Iran to Al-Qaeda
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aynz02_UWyw
In making claims to the danger of a nuclear threat in Iran as well as a threat in general to peace in the Middle East, John McCain has made links between Al-Qaeda and Iran that have been proven false. In these attempts, McCain has misused information in order to try to link Iran directly in Al-Qaeda, directly in opposition to facts that there is no "significant evidence" of this link, or any Iranian financial or other support of Al-Qaeda's operations. By tying Al-Qaeda's actions and goal to Iran's, it appears Senator McCain attepts to make Iran's goals to be part of the same extremist identity that Al-Qaeda subscribes to, and in turn makes the claim that Iran is making actions that go beyond its state boundaries by supporting terrorist groups. Seeing a war on Iran as an extension of the so-called "War on Terror," Senator McCain may feel compelled to act in military offense toward Iran, though there is no evidence that this is supported by a great majority of officials in Washington. McCain's view of Iran's ties do not show any grounding in reality, and therefore should be very carefully examined. Identifying a country as a terrorist supporter is no small statement.
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This is an excellent point. Putting groups (who hate each other) in the same category and treat them the same or cooperating because they also happen to hate us will be misleading. We manipulate these differenences and develop different policies because they are diffrent.
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