More McCain Bashing

Can't get enough of this stuff:

Does McCain's war support depend entirely upon who started the war? It would seem so. McCain doesn't appreciate having this flip-flop pointed out, however.

Matt David, McCain's campaign spokesman, said it is "intellectually dishonest" to compare Iraq to Haiti and Somalia because of the volatility now in the Middle East and terrorist threat.

"Haitians and Somalians do not want to follow us home and attack us on American soil," David said in a statement.

Now that's interesting. Does that mean McCain doesn't believe al Qaeda was in Somalia? The 9/11 Commission would beg to differ [pdf]:

Bin Ladin said in his ABC interview that he and his followers had been preparing in Somalia for another long struggle, like that against the Soviets in Afghanistan, but "the United States rushed out of Somalia in shame and disgrace." Citing the Soviet army’s withdrawal from Afghanistan as proof that a ragged army of dedicated Muslims could overcome a superpower, he told the interviewer:"We are certain that we shall—with the grace of Allah—prevail
over the Americans."He went on to warn that "If the present injustice continues . . . , it will inevitably move the battle to American soil."

Of course the Haitians and Somalians didn't want to follow us home. The Iraqis don't want to follow us home. They want nothing more to do with Americans at all. The Somalians, the Haitians, and the Iraqis didn't attack us in the first place and don't want to attack us now. The threat then, and the threat now is al Qaeda and bin Laden (who, by the way, is still alive and free). Bin Laden does not need the excuse of Somalia, or Haiti, or Iraq to want to attack the United States.