The Democrats say he did. So does the Washington Post which, we all know, is basically the same thing:Sen. John McCain, in the midst of a trip to the Middle East that he hoped would help burnish his foreign policy expertise, incorrectly asserted Tuesday that Iran is training and supplying al-Qaeda in Iraq, confusing the Sunni insurgent group with the Shiite extremists who U.S. officials believe are supported by their religious brethren in the neighboring country. The mistake, which he quickly corrected after a brief whisper from a colleague, was an unwelcome stumble as McCain (Ariz.), the all-but-certain Republican nominee for the White House, spends seven days in the Middle East and Europe. After the Democrats issued a statement mocking McCain's "ignorance" of Iraq, the McCain campaign said that the gaffe was a non story because the candidate immediately corrected himself. But was he wrong? Thomas Jocelyn at the Weekly Standard doesn't think so: • Earlier this month,...(Read Full Post)