Letters to the Editor
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Maybe he ment "Baghdad"
Maybe he ment "Baghdad" which is the fabulous new casino/ressort complex in Las Vegas. I hear Sen. McCain was recently seen strolling the sumtuaously authentic boulevards, stopping for a bite to eat at a fine cafe and shopping at the quaint shops (and Nordstrom's) before heading to the incredible golden-domed Casino Suni-esque.
Aids were over heard trying to explain the the daffed and befuddled senator that he wasn't in the "real" Baghdad.
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Uh-oh
The "straight talk express" seems to be flying in ever-smaller concentric circles. If Einstein is correct, eventually it shall be forced to fly up its own ass. I doubt that it will be missed.
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Nuff said
Mccain is a moral and physical coward.
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Super!
One can walk around Baghdad with ONLY the kind of physical protection that surrounds the President of the United States in public! Why, that's hardly protection at all!
And just ask Gerald Ford: Poland wasn't under Soviet domination in 1976!
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You ought to catch up on things -- McCoin
It wasn't so much what he said yesterday, as it was the way he said it. I saw it.
He was irrationally pugnacious about it, as though he was mocking Blitzer for having the gall to even ask such a question.
McCoin has a history of angry outbursts without provocation. This was one of those Mad McCain Moments yesterday.
Keep this loon away from the White House. Even as stupid and assholic that Bush is, even he can usually hold his temper.
By the way: In reviewing McCoin's actual military record, he never did anything considered "heroic" by peer standards of the military. He was an average pilot and his greatest claim to fame is that he managed to get himself shot down and captured.
Phtttt!
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and another thing...
Insurgents’ shifting the carnage from the “soon to be secured” Bagdad to outlying towns is hardly a show of progress that can be attributed to a successful "surge". Finding "less bodies" and fewer car bombs on the streets of Bagdad and pitching that as a success story in this debacle is sheer lunacy. It is unfathomable that Bush is pitching this crap as fact. No clear thinker is buying an iota of that propaganda. Use your head for Christ's sake; the insurgency has merely "moved" its bloody theater somewhere else killing hundreds in other less "secure" places not being frequented by surge-guys. Until we wise up and tire of loading Bagdad neighborhoods with our soldiers and have to do a "Chinese fire drill", to try to keep up with the chaos emanating in the other "hot spots" in that sad country, the insurgency will once again be one step ahead of us. Boy that Gen. David Petraeus is some amazingly smart guy eh? Brilliant, and he's not even Irish.
I guess I should apologize for using the "Chinese fire drill" analogy lest the Chinese call in our marker for the billions we owe them that we borrowed to finance this atrocity. Maybe would should garnishee Bush and Cheney's paychecks until that debt is P-I-F. Come to think of it, and perhaps better yet, Cheney's profits (presently being held in trust while he represents us as a Vice President) obtained via Halliburton would probably cover most of it...
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Aww, Leave the poor old coot alone!
He was held prisoner by the North Vietnamese and tortured for years. You really can't expect someone who has been through that to have all his sensibilities in tact.
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What a
complete fucking idiot.
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Talking Heads said it best
"Facts don't do what I want them to."
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"Oh, John...
"...you ignorant slut," as they used to say in the good ol' days on SNL.
Hey, they're finding less bodies, I mean, that's good, right?
And since the Secret Service provides running-alongside- the-car protection for each Iraqi housewife buying bread and every child going to school, everything is fine. Jeez Louise on a cracker.
Kudos to John Roberts for sticking it to the man! As we know, all too often people just say their talking points on CNN, and sometimes a day later they might have someone on to kinda sorta refute part of that statement, but usually not. Usually it's like a clearing house for registering talking points; people come on, officially state the talking point, Wolf or (gag!) Paula says, "Well, there you have it, the left/right talking point. Back after a break."
But I will say John Roberts has had a little more fire in the belly since he was assigned to Iraq for a few weeks. Perhaps he got tired of strolling the quiet streets with no protection, or walking alongside Patraeus' open jeep chatting with him, or maybe finding less bodies was boring him, or maybe HE GOT TIRED OF BEING SHOT AT WHILE BEING TOLD EVERYTHING IS FINE BY PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW WHAT THE HELL THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT.
Whew. Sorry for yelling. I used to like McCain, hell hath no fury like a voter scorned.
Locutus, "assholic" is my new favorite word. You rock.
And you're right, he got all smuggy-Rumsfeld on Wolf. No one should be allowed to talk to us like that anymore. I am so tired of Bush in particular saying something blatantly obvious that he's just realized and saying it like we're two AND remedial AND hadn't been saying it first. Rummy was even worse, he successfully made smart people feel stupid while he was talking, it was only later you'd wake up and realize you're right and he's an idiot.
Again I say, no one should be allowed to talk to us in that manner anymore!!!
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CNN Followed up with Michael Ware
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BLITZER:...But I want to go back to Baghdad right now. CNN's Michael Ware is on the scene for us, as he has been for the past four years.
Michael, when Senator McCain says that there are at least some areas of Baghdad where people can walk around and -- whether it's General Petraeus, the U.S. military commander, or others, are there at least some areas where you could emerge outside of the Green Zone, the international zone, where people can go out, go to a coffee shop, go to a restaurant, and simply take a stroll?
WARE: I can answer this very quickly, Wolf. No. No way on earth can a westerner, particularly an American, stroll any street of this capital of more than five million people.
I mean, if al Qaeda doesn't get wind of you, or if one of the Sunni insurgent groups don't descend upon you, or if someone doesn't tip off a Shia militia, then the nearest criminal gang is just going to see dollar signs and scoop you up. Honestly, Wolf, you'd barely last 20 minutes out there.
I don't know what part of Neverland Senator McCain is talking about when he says we can go strolling in Baghdad.