Randy Scheunemann, McCain adviser and neocon, describing Obama as stubborn as George W. Bush on Iraq. Looks like the McCain campaign has flip-flopped on it’s attack strategy. Last week they were saying Obama was a flip-flopper on Iraq.
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A little background on Randy Scheunemann from Josh Marshall:

Scheunemann was a core participant in the lobbying, plotting and organized campaigns of deception that led America to war in Iraq. He was a close collaborator with Ahmad Chalabi through the 1990s. He helped draft the Iraq Liberation Act, which created the new funding stream for Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress. At the start of the Bush administration he signed on as Don Rumsfeld’s ‘consultant’ on Iraq at the Pentagon. And then when the administration started cranking up the machinery for the propaganda campaign in favor of war he went back on the outside to form and lead the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, to lead the press and lobbying campaign to make sure the war got started on schedule.

Remember, US intelligence later found evidence that Chalabi, in addition to foisting a bunch of bogus intelligence and lying informers on the US and pocketing a lot of US taxpayer dollars, had provided highly classified US intelligence to Iran. Scheunemann worked closely with Chalabi for years in his efforts to get the US into war with Iraq. He was also a go-between between Chalabi and McCain. Now that he’s taking such a high-profile role on the Iraq issue in the 2008, Scheunemann’s history with Chalabi and the use of bogus intelligence to get the nation into war is unquestionably highly newsworthy.

John McCain

This has been repeated by a number of conservatives. Shockingly, it’s also a steaming pile of horseshit. From the Houston Chronicle:

The quantity and cumulative magnitude of the 595 spills, which were spread across four states and struck offshore and inland, rank these two hurricanes among the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history. Some have even compared the total amount of oil released — estimated at 9 million gallons — to the tragedy of Exxon Valdez.

Here’s a satellite photo of the Katrina oil slicks: Skytruth.

But remember kids, the most important thing is figuring out if Obama is a muslim.

John McCain, earlier today, once again defending Czechoslovakia.  I’m linking to the Wikipedia article on Czechoslovakia because some of the younger readers might not have been born when Czechoslovakia ceased to exist in 1992.  Now, we already know McCain wants to drill in ANWR for the “psychological impact” it would have.  I think I can connect the dots.  He can send all the nonexistant benefits from his increased drilling and irresponsible gas tax holiday to all our nonexistant allies.  Then they will elect him the Prettiest Princess in Imaginary Land! (via squashed)

Steve Benen comments:

“But the raison d’etre of John McCain’s entire presidential campaign is the notion that he’s an expert on foreign policy, thanks to his decades of experience as a Washington insider. When the foreign policy expert keeps referencing a non-existent country, it’s not unreasonable to mention that maybe his expertise isn’t quite as impressive as his campaign and the political media establishment would like us to believe.”

Steve also states, “McCain has actually been to the Czech Republic and Slovakia since they became independent countries, and he’s met with their leaders.”