Terrorists for McCain

McCain supporters like to point a finger at Barack Obama and call him a terrorist, or accuse him of palling around with terrorists.

But when it comes to the real terrorists, the ones responsible for 9/11 and the ones who still want to bring down this country, McCain is apparently the candidate of choice, as evidenced by McCain's recent endorsement by al-Qaeda supporters.

They like him so much that they might even try a pre-election attack in hopes of swaying voters.

The British newspaper The Telegraph reported last week:

Supporters of al-Qaeda have said they would prefer Republican candidate John McCain to win the US election because he is more likely to continue the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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[T]he group said that if al-Qaeda wants to exhaust the US militarily and economically, the "impetuous" Republican presidential candidate is the better choice.

"This requires presence of an impetuous American leader such as McCain, who pledged to continue the war till the last American soldier," the message said.

"Then, al-Qaeda will have to support McCain in the coming elections so that he continues the failing march of his predecessor, Bush."

"If al-Qaeda carries out a big operation against American interests," it said, "this act will be support of McCain because it will push the Americans deliberately to vote for McCain so that he takes revenge for them against al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda then will succeed in exhausting America till its last year in it."

In other words, they recognize that McCain would continue to play the same old game of cat and mouse that we've seen under George W. Bush.

And, like Bush, McCain is a bit confused over who is the cat and who is the mouse.