Once again McCain has opened his mouth and proved that he is far from being an expert on foreign policy.

Today on the “Good Morning America” show, McCain downplayed conditions in Afghanistan.  He then went on to say

We have a lot of work to do.  It’s a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq-Pakistan border.

In case you don’t know how the borders are drawn in that region of the world, here’s a map I got off of Crooks and Liars.

Looks to me like the Iraq Pakistan border has a very large cushion named Iran.

This isn’t the first time McCain has opened his mouth and shown that he doesn’t know what he is talking about.  During a GOP debate in October 2007, McCain said

The first thing I would do is make sure that we have a missile defense system in place in Czechoslovakia and Poland, and I don’t care what his objections are to it.

On July 14, 2008, he said

I was concerned about a couple of steps that the Russian government took in the last several days. One was reducing the energy supplies to Czechoslovakia. Apparently that is in reaction to the Czech’s agreement with us concerning missile defense, and again some of the Russian now announcement they are now retargeting new targets, something they abandoned at the end of the Cold War, is also a concern.

Three months before he said that he told Don Imus that he would “work closely with Czechoslovakia and Poland and other countries.”

If he’s a foreign relations expert, McCain should know that Czechoslovakia was split into two countries January 1, 1993.  Neither is called Czechoslovakia.  Instead their names are the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

At a news conference in Jordan on March 18, 2008, McCain said

Al Qaeda is going back into Iran and is receiving training and are coming back into Iraq from Iran.

Here’s the problem with that statement:  Iran’s population is mostly Shiite Muslim.  Al Qaeda is Sunni Muslim.  Iran views The Sunni’s in Al Qaeda as a threat to their country and have worked very hard to close their borders to Al Qaeda fighters.  Iran has also accused the United State of funding, training and arming Iraqi Shiite militants.

If McCain or anyone else wants to claim that they are an expert on foreign policy, then they can’t keep making stupid mistakes like these.  They definitely shouldn’t be making them over and over and over again (I’m talking to John “Czechoslovakia is still a country” McCain).

If you want me to believe that you’re an expert on anything, you need to actually know what you’re talking about.  John McCain just continues to prove that he is no expert on foreign policy.

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Click on the picture below to go to a link Alternet which has the transcript of Olbermann’s special comment.

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Back in October, Bush started trying to ramp up the rush to war with Iran by talking about world war three in relation to Iran’s attempt to build a nuclear weapon.  There was just one problem, Iran had halted it nuclear weapons program back in 2003.

Bush claims that he only found out about this new information last week.   This is contrary to National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley’s report.  According to Hadley, Bush was told back in August or September about the intelligence that indicated Iran had halted its weapons program.

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