Klein: In January, McCain insisted Basra was ‘not a problem.’

The clowns are come out the woodwork..

Thinkprogress:

Last week, Moqtada al-Sadr waged a full-out assault on Iraqi national forces in Basra, a move that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said “surprised” him. Today, Time’s Joe Klein writes that McCain assured him of Basra’s stability just two months ago:

Furthermore, McCain’s frequent “You don’t know anything” tirades about national security might be more effective if he had a better sense of the war in question. When I asked him about Basra in January, he assured me that it was “not a problem.”

As Klein puts it, “McCain’s carelessness and oversimplification, and wrong analysis, when it comes to the situation in Iraq puts him in a surprisingly vulnerable position.”