Dumb Senatorial Comment of the Day

”I think it’s obvious that the difficulties we’ve experienced in Iraq have certainly emboldened" terrorist groups, Senator John McCain, an Arizona Republican, said on the CBS News program “Face the Nation.”

“But I would also argue that these people didn’t need any motivation to attack us on Sept. 11,” he said.

OK, so our continued presence in Iraq and bumbling of everything imaginable in the Middle East are emboldening the terrorists (oh, and you forgot to mention these things are breeding more terrorists...but I guess that's straying a bit too far from the line, eh?), but that doesn't really matter because they'll just attack the US for absolutely no reason. It's good that we're there to prevent a completely unprovoked attack from ever happening again - of course! Now I see it.