Fact Check

I'm watching Obama on MTV's 'Choose or Loose' special and I caught a pretty significant error stated by him. He said that we need to refocus our milirary attention on Afghanistan -- and that much of his position is fine, I agree. But the reason he gave to support why we should do so is because the Afghanis were the ones who attacked us on September 11th. Actually, 15 of the 19 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia. Bin Laden himself is Saudi and al-Qa'eda is a multi-celled terrorist organization not tied to one single country. I know the senator knows this so he needs to be careful about semantics when talking about it. Granted, Bin Laden is hiding in Afghanistan and allied forces will argue that the country's government is harboring him by default if they aren't actively seeking him. But I think that the senator needs to finetune his talking point, especially since he slammed McCain this week for his gaffe misstating details about opposing factions in Iraq and Iran. I totally get Obama's broader point about where we need to focus our military attention, but as his supporter I really don't want him to get stumped unnecessarily on a point like this somewhere down the line and be made to look uninformed.