An interrogator, right, and an Arabic translator, left, question a man as they look for infomation about militant activity during a raid in Nassar el al Salaam, Iraq.
Barack Obama
May 13, 2008
"We only have a certain number of them and if they are all in Iraq, then its harder for us to use them in Afghanistan."
—Obama, incorrectly telling a crowd in Cape Girardeau, Missouri that Arabic translators deployed in Iraq are needed in Afghanistan -- forgetting, momentarily, that Afghans don't speak Arabic. He quickly corrected himself.
— Katie Rooney