John McCain's Iraq speech interrupted by mortar attacks in Green Zone

This is just brilliant. This YouTube video, through Crooks and Liars, shows GOP nominee Senator John McCain's presentation of a pro-Iraq speech being interrupted by a breaking news story on a mortar attack against Baghdad's Green Zone. First, here are the quotes from McCain's speech just before the breaking news story:

[Garbled] a couple of choices. We could retreat from Iraq and accept the horrible consequences of our defeat, or we can change strategies and try to turn things around. There was, I believe, a critical moment in our nation's history. And a time of testing for our nation's political leadership.

Now here is the breaking news video. From YouTube:



Now, according to the breaking MSNBC News story, four mortar shells were fired into Baghdad's Green Zone, with no word on casualties. This news story comes just one day after five U.S. soldiers were killed in Iraq, with two soldiers killed in the Green Zone. The MSNBC story reports that the latest violence in Iraq was triggered by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's crackdown against the militias in Basara, which is specifically the Mahdi Army under control by anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

What I find amazing about this video is McCain's complete detachment from reality on the U.S. war in Iraq. It is bad enough for McCain to make a pro-war speech on why we should continue this losing war in Iraq, when we all know that Iraq is going to hell in a hand-basket. But here is the video of McCain making his arguments for continuing this war right as the media cuts him off to show us the video of Iraq going to hell in a hand-basket. It is one thing to read about McCain's complete detachment from reality on Iraq. But it is an even more powerful image to see just how far detached McCain is from the reality of Iraq--to see just how far, completely, wrong McCain is on Iraq.

It is sickening.