I got my weekly letter from Dr. Howard "We support the troops" Dean today:

John McCain is so wrong on Iraq, he can't even get the basic facts about the situation on the ground correct.

Today, as he was questioning Gen. David Petraeus, he again confused the difference between Shiite and Sunni Muslims.

At least five times as a candidate John McCain has stated that Iran (a Shiite nation) is supporting Al-Qaeda (a Sunni group) in Iraq. This is not some minor mistake, but a significant gaffe. He clearly does not understand the sensitive political dynamics in that region of the world.

So apparently, despite historical evidence going back to the 7th Century, the Muslim socio-religious view of believers versus infidels, the old saw about "the enemy of your enemy", and the physical proof of captured weapons,  Dr. Dean believes that  various religious sects of the same faith can never work together for a cause. I guess up in Vermont they don't have groups like Operation Rescue, Inter-Faith Charities, etc.?Maybe Roman Catholics and Protestants are still shooting at each other there? Or Espocpalians, Methodists and Lutherans still rumble on the weekends?

The lies and distortations go on for a page before he ends with:


So since apparently no one on the Democratic side understands the basics of Islam's relation to other religions, the history of the Middle East, nor the funding of anti-American groups in the real world, we have to vote Republican this time. Didn't he just undercut his own party?