Cross-posted from http://www.StandforJohn.com

What some of you might not know about me is that I like to get spam from stupid people. Naturally, I'm on the Republican National Committee's email list. So yesterday, lo and behold, this pops into my email:

The full "research document" can be found here.

The intent of the email is to show us that John Edwards is insincere about wanting to fight terrorism because A) He Believes Al Qaeda has a presence in Iraq B) Says he wants to fight terrorists but C) Wants to end the war and thus leave Iraq to the terrorists.

To prove the point, they put up a video of an interview Edwards did on The Situation Room in May. The link to the GOP's video is here.

If you watch the video, you'll see that after Edwards makes a case for ending the war, Wolf Blitzer questions Edwards on whether he disputes that Al Qaeda maintains a presence in Iraq. Edwards says "No, but..." and then, well, the video ends.

You see, the GOP thinks we're as stupid as they are. They think we don't know that when someone makes a statement followed by a "but...", they are probably going to make another relevant point.

Thanks to the magic of the internets, we can show them we're not stupid. So here, ladies and gentleman, is the extended version of that interview, which I like to call John Edwards on The Situation Room: Too Hot for GOP Edition:

Well, well. Seems like Mr. Edwards did indeed have a bit more to say. And what more did he say, exactly? Put simply:

By ending the war and forcing a political resolution in Iraq, we weaken and defeat Al Qaeda in Iraq.

Wow, that sounds like a coherent, forceful rebuttal to the GOP's kindergarten logic. Why would they leave that out? Why does the GOP think that the only way to defeat terrorists is to stay in a failed, fraudulent war that invited the terrorists in the first place, and which continues to be a breeding ground for new terrorists? And why do they think they can convince us of this stupidity by cutting short the video of an interview?

Because they are very, very stupid.