Wrong: Early, Often and, Always, Always, Like A Frat Boy With A Keg Of Schlitz

So, 7 years after the fact, we almost get the guy who maybe was behind the Anthrax....

Think Progress assembles some material so that we can look at how the Experienced and Wise Johnny Mac saw the issues of the day:

October 18, 2001 (!!!!!)

LETTERMAN: How are things going in Afghanistan now?

MCCAIN: I think we’re doing fine …. I think we’ll do fine. The second phase — if I could just make one, very quickly — the second phase is Iraq. There is some indication, and I don’t have the conclusions, but some of this anthrax may — and I emphasize may — have come from Iraq.

LETTERMAN: Oh is that right?

MCCAIN: If that should be the case, that’s when some tough decisions are gonna have to be made.