In new ad, McCain goes after Karzai

The presidential [sic] campaign of Senator John McCain has taken to attacking rival Senator Barack Obama for remarks the latter delivered in New Hampshire in August of last year.

According to the Nashua Telegraph, Obama told a local gathering, "You have narco drug lords who are helping to finance the Taliban, so we’ve got to get the job done there, and that requires us to have enough troops that we are not just air raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous problems there."

What McCain doesn't tell his prospective audience is that Barack Obama was merely echoing a "seething speech" made by Afghan president Hamid Karzai a few weeks previously:

Karzai accused NATO and U.S.-led troops of carelessly killing scores of Afghan civilians and warned that the fight against resurgent Taliban militants could fail unless foreign forces show more restraint.

"Afghan life is not cheap and it should not be treated as such," Karzai said angrily.

The mounting toll is sapping the authority of the Western-backed Afghan president, who has pleaded repeatedly with U.S. and NATO commanders to consult Afghan authorities during operations and show more restraint.

In his latest teevee ad, McCain calls Obama "dishonorable" and "dangerous" — simply for standing alongside and supporting the concerns of the Afghan president, a U.S. ally.

Why is Senator McCain attacking American allies in the war on terror? And why is his soulmate Sarah Palin sitting down with Hamid Karzai in New York, without preconditions, if he is so dangerous and dishonorable? Because the truth is, they are the dishonorable ones.