McCain Won't Get A Disease From Those Filthy Iraqis

ABC's blog does mention that John McCain said yesterday that only contracting a fatal disease would keep him out of the New Hampshire primary. However, they didn't add his later comments, which I saw live on CNN. It's close to a Macaca moment:

QUESTION: Senator McCain, are there any circumstances under which you could imagine yourself not still being a presidential candidate when the New Hampshire primary fell?

MCCAIN: Contracting a fatal disease.

QUESTION: Anything short of that?

MCCAIN: Not that I know of. But, you never know. You never know, I might. I was in Iraq. You never know.

Yeah, because those Iraqis are just walking germ factories, aren't they?

There's no way that can be taken out of context. McCain said that he might contract a fatal disease because he was in Iraq. This is his idea of humor. Hey John, most people in Iraq aren't dying of fatal diseases, they're dying from suicide bombs and air strikes and being kidnapped and executed "El Salvador death squad" style. And to the extent that there are outbreaks of cholera and other diseases, it's because the Tigris River has become a floating cemetery and the water supply has turned into poison.

McCain's in bad enough shape as it is. He doesn't have to compound it by insulting the Iraqi people and highlighting how horrible the situation is there, one that he created and still supports.