Tom DeLay: Insurgent Violence Breaking Out In Houston
Tom DeLay: Insurgent Violence Breaking Out In Houston
Today, the Houston Chronicle reported that House Majority Leader Tom DeLay believes Iraq is actually going quite well. The problem, as DeLay sees it, is not that Iraq has become a “real-world laboratory for urban combat,” but rather how the media is covering Iraq. DeLay suggested that the violence in Houston is no different than the violence going on in Iraq. You would think DeLay would be speaking from first-hand observations, but in fact, he last visited Iraq in AUGUST 2003 — that’s right, almost two years ago. By the end of August 2003, only 289 U.S. troops had died in combat. The toll stands at over 1700 today.
Despite the fact that DeLay has not witnessed the recent upsurge in violence first-hand, that didn’t stop him from scolding the media:
Go to Iraq. And see what’s actually happening there. Everybody that comes from Iraq is amazed at the difference of what they see on the ground and what they see on the television set.
The difference between what’s going on on the ground versus what is seen on the television sets was made clear to DeLay when he visited Iraq in August 2003. Recounting the trip later with fellow voyager Congressman Ander Crenshaw, DeLay wrote:
This was a war zone. This is a burgeoning democracy. A soldier with his hands on an M16 and eyes aimed out the window greeted us, “Sirs, welcome to free Iraq.”
I didn’t realize travelers who arrive at George Bush Intercontinental/Houston airport are greeting with soldiers carrying M16s.
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I don’t know about DeLay’s statement, but speaking from experience, Houston is pretty dangerous.
June 22nd, 2005 at 5:50 pmIn case you want a more realistic version of the Iraqi Situation than what the conservative prolefeed media wants the public to accept as fact … allow me….
June 22nd, 2005 at 6:04 pmSo where’s the Green Zone in Houston? How many bombs went off downtown today?
June 22nd, 2005 at 6:22 pmI don’t know how DeLay could possibly know how things are in Iraq with his head so far up his a**. The man just can’t shut his pie hole — he hasn’t been the top story for a while, and you’d think he like it that way. Whatever, bug man.
June 22nd, 2005 at 6:42 pmBetter yet! Let Delay go back to Iraq tomorrow, but don’t give him an armored vest. Give it to a real soldier who really needs one. And don’t let him ride in an armored humvee. Let him walk the streets of Bagdad. If he get’s blown up who would notice that he is missing, except the neocons. Cowards like Delay, Bush, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Rice, the two Cheneys, Limbaugh, O’Lielly, Hannity, et al. are never going to go to Iraq under the same circumstances they are only too willing to subject our sons and daughters to, which is why they are full of “..it” Put your butts where your talk is and then maybe we will begin to listen to you.
June 22nd, 2005 at 7:57 pmHow about we hold him accountable for belittling the danger and death our soldiers in Iraq face daily for our “freedom” from the “US-attacking” Iraqi terrorists with such ignorant statements? He compared our great American city of Houston with Iraq? As a Houstonite, I would be pissed (to clarify for the spinners: that’s the American use of pissed, meaning mad, rather than the UK use, which is for really drunk)! How unpatriotic!
June 22nd, 2005 at 9:40 pmApologies are in order Tom. Bring some tears while your at it.
June 22nd, 2005 at 9:42 pmMy God. They’ve elected Dale Gribble to the Senate.
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