If you didn’t watch the film that served as an introduction to John McCain’s acceptance speech at the RNC, then you didn’t note the subliminal re-writing of history in that film. McCain’s camp managed to tie Iran to Iraq visually. As Jeffrey Feldman writes, “It was a cynical attempt to claim attacks on Americans–1979 and 2001–were carried out by the same ‘enemy.’ Then there’s this report, which may make you think about McCain’s duplicity even more. It appears that McCain supported the war in Iraq, knowing that the reason for this war was “unsubstantiated, contradicted, or even non-existent.” As a result, the American people were led to believe that the threat from Iraq was much greater than actually existed.”
The victims of 9/11 and their families deserve much more respect than this. The men and women who fought in Iraq and who continue to toe the line in this war deserve much more honor than this. We have every right, as does Keith Olbermann, to be mad as hell about this, Senator McCain.
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