“I understand that Senator Obama said that if al-Qaida established
a base in Iraq that he would send troops back in militarily. Al-Qaida
already has a base in Iraq. It’s called al-Qaida in Iraq.”

– John McCain commenting to a crowd in Tyler, Texas about Barack
Obama’s answer to whether a president should enter Iraq to suppress
an insurrection after removing U.S. troops, February 27, 2008