Base Assumption: Everyone in Iraq is Al-Qaeda

Poor McSurge. He can't keep Iraq and Iran straight in his mind. He confuses Sunni with Shi'a. All he really knows is that these troublemaking folks live in a desert not much hotter than the one he represents in Arizona, except their desert is full of angry swarthy people, and lotsa oil.

So what better way to keep things straight on the Straight Talk Express than to label everyone "over there" as "Al-Qaeda?"

McSurge is lucky he has a brainiac like Ken Pollack to serve as his apologist.