Letters to the Editor
Garry Owen
Published Letters: 2821 Editor's Choice: 151
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Is there any other kind of visit to Iraq?
[Read the article: It all comes together]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a surprise trip to Baghdad today"
"Rice made her last unannounced trip to Baghdad in April, when she met with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld..."
And in fact, Rumfeld was there on a "surprise visit" also.
The each time the Chimp has been there it's been a "surprise visit" also.
Just once I'd like the wire services and television media to drop this "surprise visit" bullshit and say it out loud:
Condolezza Rice, fearing she would be killed, spiraled steeply down in to Baghdad's beseiged airport under the cover of total darkness last night while two brigades of U.S. Army and one Marine Expeditionary Force set up a hasty five mile cordon around the landing zone and laid down supressive fire at anything that moved for several hours while U.S. Air Force F-16s and other heavily armed fighter aircraft swarmed overhead dropping radar-jamming chaff and anti- surface to air missile flares.
The Secretary then boarded a CH-47 helicopter with running lights out and made a furious dash from the airport to the Green Zone surrounded by Apache and Cobra helicopters for the ten minute ride.
Fearing for her life, she stayed on the ground less than two hours and after a photo op with Al Maliki, she scurried her ass out of there the same way she came in.
SUPRISE EVERYBODY!
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How Puerile
[Read the article: Maf54 (8:08:31 PM): Get a ruler and measure it for me]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I liked it.
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What she saw was enough
[Read the article: Welcome to your war, Madame Secretary]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]She can say whatever she wants about her little stunt visit. But her brain registered what her lying mouth won't say. Anybody who has ever ridden a fixed wing into a hot LZ (and I did it plenty) knows the meaning of "Pucker Factor 10." And although she probably feels like some kind of royal princess to be surrounded by a security detail of huge men with automatic weapons at the ready it's got to register in her mind that her life is in serious danger or they wouldn't be doing it.
Did you catch that photo a few months ago of Tony Snow and Dan Bartlett riding from the Baghdad airport to the Green Zone? I laughed my ass off at that picture. These two candy-ass Washington pussies, dressed up in BDUs, Kevlar head to foot almost, sitting in this chopper, white as ghosts, a look of fear on their faces like they were about to shit their pants. And nearby was a door gunner, God bless him, relaxed as he could be, one hand on his M-60, peering out, admiring the view. Meanwhile Tony and Dan were staring at the floor, afraid to even look out at the scenery below. It looked like they were afraid to even breathe.
I used to see guys like that. "Fact finders" that wanted to see "what it was really like" up country. But once they got up there, all their bravado was about to run down their leg. You would try to point something out to them down below, a firebase or something, but they wouldn't even lean over and take a look. They'd fix their gaze on the floor and act like they didn't hear you rather than dare to peek to one side and notice that there's nothing between them and the ground but 2,000 feet of thin air. LOL!
I highly recommend that all the candy-ass warmongers and chickenhawks take at least one "fact finding" tour in Iraq. After all, if things are going so well over there, then of course they should see it first hand.
I recommend at least one convoy ride hunkered down in the back of a hot, stinking, noisy Bradley for fifty miles of IED infested highway.
I recommend going on at least one cordon and search through a town out in Al Anbar with a Marine unit. Hell, if Geraldo could do it, so could the chickenhawks.
And one side trip should be mandatory. No excuses. One night in triage at a field hospital, holding plasma bottles and stanching sucking chest wounds or pushing some guys guts back into his body while rushing him into surgery.
Then and only then, come back to Washington and tell us how wonderful everything is.
The funny thing is? They would. These people have no shame and they have no heart. So I fully expect Condi to report that everything is just wonderful in Iraq. Same as it ever was.