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CNN catches McCain making
contradictory statements about Sadr.
Think
Progress
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
In an interview with CNN earlier today, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ)
claimed that he has long understood the influence of Iraqi Shi’ite
cleric Moqtada al-Sadr:
I said he was still major player and his influence is going
to have to be reduced and gradually eliminated.
But in a report on The Situation Room today, the network noted
that just two weeks ago McCain — trying to paint a rosy
picture of Iraq — described Sadr very differently while
speaking to CNN’s John King in Baghdad:
His [Sadr’s] influence has been on the wane for a long
time.
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This isn’t the first time McCain has inaccurately characterized
Sadr’s influence in Iraq. In April 2007, McCain claimed
that Sadr’s forces were “not contesting American forces,”
at the same time Sadr’s urged his loyalists to “turn
all their efforts on American forces.”
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