John McCain and Joe Lieberman engage in the same bogus rhetoric about Al Qaeda in Iraq as President Bush in a Wall Street Journal op-ed today:

Whatever the shortcomings of our friends in Iraq, they are no excuse for us to retreat from our enemies like al Qaeda and Iran, who pose a mortal threat to our vital national interests. We must understand that today in Iraq we are fighting and defeating the same terrorist network that attacked on 9/11.

In fact, however, Al Qaeda in Iraq is only loosely connected to Al Qaeda, the group that struck us on 9/11, and represents a tiny portion of the Sunni insurgency.