Following up on what my colleague, Spencer Ackerman, writes about the tight spot in which the McCain campaign finds itself concerning the war in Iraq. During a McCain campaign conference call with reporters this morning, Randy Scheunemann, senior foreign-policy adviser to Sen. John McCain — did indeed fall back on the now-disproved notion that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s comments to Der Spiegel were misinterpreted. Here is Scheunemann responding to a question about his reaction to Maliki’s statements:

“I