I was planning to put something in my last column on this subject but ran out of room (and it was a bit of a tangent). John McCain and others keep talking about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as if he was the absolute leader of that country. But in fact, he's not in charge. The Supreme Leader of Iran is Ali Khamenei, and he is the one in charge of the government and foreign policy. Khamenei was president from 1981 to 1989, when took over as Supreme Leader after Ayatollah Khomeini died.

But Ahmadinejad makes an easy target, so they go after him instead.

Here is video of McCain being confronted with these facts. His answer is revealing:

When confronted with the truth, McCain wants to take a poll. For someone so wrapped up in bombing Iran, you would think he would find out who is in charge of the country first.