The joke:

Michael D. Shear of The Trail said:

Sen. John McCain hasn't had good luck joking about Iran. But he tried it again Tuesday.

Responding to a question about a survey that shows increased exports to
Iran, mainly from cigarettes, McCain said, "Maybe thats a way of killing them."

He quickly caught himself, saying "I meant that as a joke" as his wife, Cindy, poked him in the back.

From the San Francisco Chronicle, 2000

Arizona Sen. John McCain refused to apologize yesterday for his use of a racial slur to condemn the North Vietnamese prison guards who tortured and held him captive during the war.

"I hate the gooks," McCain said yesterday in response to a question from reporters aboard his campaign bus. "I will hate them as long as I live."

I don't want this man anywhere near the White House.

evil evil man

Sick guy, give him more cigarettes!!!

By the bye, I was just joking

How profoundly he misunderstands, if he thinks Iranians are our enemies! The fringe cranks that run the nation may be, but they don't speak for the vast majority of this hugely diverse society.

A hugely diverse society that imprisons people for not being Muslim or Zoroastrian (tolerated because of the link to the Persians) and has been known to kill Atheists.