Lott On Iraq: ‘Why Do Sunnis Kill Shiites? … They All Look The Same To Me’
Lott On Iraq: ‘Why Do Sunnis Kill Shiites? … They All Look The Same To Me’
Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS), who famously suggested the U.S. wouldn’t have “all these problems” had Strom Thurmond been elected President, said today that the religious differences among Iraqis makes the conflict very difficult for him to understand:
“It’s hard for Americans, all of us, including me, to understand what’s wrong with these people,” he said. “Why do they kill people of other religions because of religion? Why do they hate the Israeli’s and despise their right to exist? Why do they hate each other? Why do Sunnis kill Shiites? How do they tell the difference? They all look the same to me.“
Speaking shortly after a meeting with President Bush and Vice President Cheney, Lott added that Iraq wasn’t among the White House’s priorities.
“No, none of that,” Lott told reporters after the session when asked if the Iraq war was discussed. “You’re [the media] the only ones who obsess on that. We don’t and the real people out in the real world don’t for the most part.“
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sounds like trent (racist) lott just got back from a kkk meeting does this idiot ever say anything meaningful
September 28th, 2006 at 4:23 pmMaybe the jerks who did this poll will do one about Iraq:
Santorum Ahead in the Poll
Why is the Right so biased and bigoted and hateful? Lott, Santorum, all of them. We have to take it back, folks!
September 28th, 2006 at 4:23 pmI’m sure George Allen heartily agrees with Lott.
September 28th, 2006 at 4:24 pmThe TV form of Fog Horn Leg Horn is sure a lot smarter than the Congressional form of Fog Horn Leg Horn.
September 28th, 2006 at 4:24 pmWow, in less than a week Iraq has gone from merely being a comma in history to not worthy of any discussion whatsoever.
September 28th, 2006 at 4:27 pmGee, funny how people in CIVIL WARS always look similar.
September 28th, 2006 at 4:27 pmAmazing,
why do those blacks keep killing each other and not leaving Nawlins when we tell ‘em too, they all look alike to me…..Racist WASP pig! Lott really misses the Leave it to Beaver days when America wsa great and he had a black mammy doing the laundry at the frat house. Why do po’ white folks keep voting for these idiots???
Texas Juice
September 28th, 2006 at 4:30 pmThanks, Sen. Lott. I’m glad this isn’t a priority while I’m over here rotting away, dodging mortars every night, doing NOTHING.
September 28th, 2006 at 4:31 pm“You’re [the media] the only ones who obsess on that. We don’t and the real people out in the real world don’t for the most part.“
This tells me that they consider most Americans to be “real people”.
Also, is it my imagination, or does Lott look “swarthier” than usual?
September 28th, 2006 at 4:32 pmOH….MY….GAWD
Another “they all look the same to me”
Mr.Lott, just can’t get rid of those racial thoughts, eh?
and before anyone defends Mr.Lott, how would you feel if the president of Afghanistan said ” I just can’t tell the difference between the Neo Nazis and Christian Conservatives. I mean, they all look the same to me”
September 28th, 2006 at 4:35 pmI’m assuming that would piss anyone off
Yeah, Trent, they all look alike….aka: “the little brown ones” - GHWB
September 28th, 2006 at 4:35 pmShiites kill sunnis because you’re a racist, trent lott………..
September 28th, 2006 at 4:38 pmFunny, Protestants and Catholics all look the same to me too.
September 28th, 2006 at 4:39 pmWhy do Congressmen hate the people they represent?
September 28th, 2006 at 4:39 pmthis just proves republicans are blind to the physical differences that separate us. trent knows that what’s important is on the inside.
September 28th, 2006 at 4:39 pmWhy do they hate each other? Why do Catholics kill Protestants? How do they tell the difference? They all look the same to me.“
September 28th, 2006 at 4:39 pmFirst thing I thought after reading this article on Lott:
You just can’t fix stupid.
September 28th, 2006 at 4:40 pmGreat picture for a caption contest.
GWB: “Hey Fristy, you see that up there? I think it’s one of them ‘dere space aliens podcrafts”
September 28th, 2006 at 4:41 pmIs there a sane voice , a dissenting voice in the GOP ? they all talk the same , imitating the ape in the WH ? No individual in this party ,all the same trolls , you see one hear one no differeence . All arestupido and bizarro
September 28th, 2006 at 4:42 pmThat’s some weird shit. Not thinking about Iraq, huh?
September 28th, 2006 at 4:42 pmNice job dropping the ball on torture, ThinkProgress.
The picture is classic. Trent Lott looking like a mean old constipated Republican and Geroge Bush staring at a fly on the ceiling.
September 28th, 2006 at 4:43 pmwhat a dumbass
September 28th, 2006 at 4:44 pmSometimes, I’m so ashamed to be a resident of the state that Lott represents. His only capability is to provide one embarrassing gaffe after another. And to say that the media are the only ones obsessing over Iraq, well, apparently Sen. Lott hasn’t been reading the latest polls that show voters care MOST about Iraq.
September 28th, 2006 at 4:44 pmwell you could say it was to do with Americans arming the interior ministry to kill Sunni Insurgents to start with , which was great for the American Occupiers because the interior ministry was doing their job for them, But the Sunnis fought Back, Now both sides have so much blood spilt between them they cannot stop , Of course now America Helps both sides in black ops fight each other so long as they dont join forces and fight against Americans - That would be a complete dissaster for Americans
But thats what their starting to do . Sunnis and the Shiites are aiming 50% of their weapons at occupying forces now ???
They got wise to what America was doing
September 28th, 2006 at 4:44 pmLott’s comments about physical resemblance aside, his assertion that Iraq is a trivial matter only “obessed” on by the media is about as arrogant as Bush’s remark about the Iraq war as a comma in history. Maybe he should go face to face with a parent who’s lost a son or daughter in Iraq and say the same thing. It would be a nice photo-op too–for an enraged parent to spit in Lott’s face.
September 28th, 2006 at 4:47 pmHey Trent! Your conundrum is precisely why we have no business meddling in the affairs of these two religious sects. Precisely, the point, doofus Lott!
Had anyone in the administration done their homework on the history of this country and these people, it would have been clear that we were totally out of line in attempting to resolve their differences….if that was the case….or was it?? Oh, yeah….it was about WMD, wasn’t it? On no…then it was about “liberating the Iraqis”, wasn’t it? Oh yeah….for a while it was….but, no, then it wasn’t…..ah, someday it may be about the real thing….the oil - Texas Tea….but no, what was it last week? I’ve forgotten - will someone please enlighten me??
September 28th, 2006 at 4:52 pmWe already knew Lott was a sheet wearing racist, but his comments about ‘obsessing on Iraq’ and the ‘people in the real world’ are really troubling. What was he meeting with Uncle Dick and Chimpy for anyhow? Iran strategy? Iraq is so yesterday. Unbelievable.
September 28th, 2006 at 4:53 pmBTW, didn’t our illustrious leader relegate the country of Iraq to a “comma” the other day? So, today it’s a “trivial matter obsessed on by the media”?? What will it be tomorrow? One of these days, it will be labeled as the “greatest mistake the United States has ever made” - yep, one of these days, like the Vietnam War, it will be. Until then, I believe that Trent Lott is so old that he’s in a “coma” (or is it a comma?) and Bush…well, he’s into punctuation these days I guess…
September 28th, 2006 at 4:54 pmIn reality…….
September 28th, 2006 at 4:54 pmOur discussions centered on that thingie that’s…….just a piece of paper…..our intent is to reclassify it……from historical to just history…..and in conjunction with that, rid the king of that “lame-duck†label that, at times, seems to be a nuisance…..
A classic example would be the british in India
They told the Indians the Pakistanis were dipping their bullets into Cows fat
Then they told the Pakistanis that the Indians were dipping their bullets into Pigs fat ???
America is using a system similiar to this in Iraq to make the Iraqis fight each other rather than join forces and attack occupation forces of course the above technique has been improved over the years to black ops bombing each others Mosques and leaving 50 beheaded people to blame the other side ???? think about it
September 28th, 2006 at 4:55 pmI think Trent needs a new “rug” - what the hell is going on there on his head?
September 28th, 2006 at 4:56 pmLott’s statement is deliberate, not an accident in any way. This is straight from the Republicans’ playbook. If the facts don’t agree with you, switch the subject. The National Intelligence Estimate is hurting the Republicans, so they are downplaying its importance by saying Iraq is not important.
Look at what O’Reilly is saying (from the Huffington Report): O’Reilly on Iraq: I “[c]ouldn’t care less about the country”.
When two Republicans say the same new thing, it is their talking point.
September 28th, 2006 at 4:58 pm28 / BACKFIRE
BTW, didn’t our illustrious leader relegate the country of Iraq to a “comma†the other day?
For Americans Killed in Iraq: A Period, Not a Comma
In an interview aired on CNN on Sunday, President Bush suggested that one day the conflict in Iraq will be looked back on as “just a comma.” The American dead, and their families, might propose different punctuation.
BACKFIRE
September 28th, 2006 at 4:58 pmbut no, what was it last week? I’ve forgotten - will someone please enlighten me??
Comment by ruskindoc — September 28, 2006 @ 4:52 pm
Umm…I think it was gas prices.
September 28th, 2006 at 4:58 pm31…It’s much cheaper to dye a bird’s nest and turn it upside down.
September 28th, 2006 at 4:59 pmI guess things in Iraq have gotten so bad, Bush can’t even talk to his republican buddies about it.
September 28th, 2006 at 5:00 pmHmmm…. all the Trent Lott’s look alike to me.
September 28th, 2006 at 5:01 pmCaption Contest:
“Hey Trent, the smoke from those crosses really does rise up quickly, don’t it?”
September 28th, 2006 at 5:02 pmPlease read this WHAT AMERICA DID TO IRAN
September 28th, 2006 at 5:03 pmCaption Contest:
“Trent, when I told you Alphoso Jackson needed to be ‘reassigned’, I didn’t mean up in that tree over there”
September 28th, 2006 at 5:04 pmMaybe he’s just trying to make George Allen look better.
September 28th, 2006 at 5:04 pmI keep telling you people - racism isn’t a liability to the right, it’s a campaign plank. Racists and those afraid of the brown people vote too. It took someone as evil as Karl Rove to tap into it.
September 28th, 2006 at 5:06 pmThe “pretending the Iraq war doesn’t exist” tactic is new, and I’ll be very disappointed in the rest of the country if it works. Bet it tested well though.
Caption:
September 28th, 2006 at 5:07 pm“Thank you, God, for making someone who makes stupider comments than me.”
Why he didin’t ask this before voting for war?
September 28th, 2006 at 5:07 pmcaption contest
George, ”Somebody farted” (trys to look innocent)
September 28th, 2006 at 5:07 pmTrent, “It was you”
George, “No it wasn’t!”
OMG. Bush has said he doesn’t care about finding Osama and Lott now says he doesn’t care about the Iraq war. Someone has to be extremely stupid to vote for the Republicans…
September 28th, 2006 at 5:08 pmI totally disgusted at what’s going on in the Senate right now, all senators, and D.C. Democrats in general.
September 28th, 2006 at 5:09 pmCan we fire these guys?
They don’t talk about Iraq because there isn’t a damned thing they can do about it right now.. An election is coming, and even though ALL the military leaders there say it will take MORE TROOPS to “win”, they can’t send them because the public wouldn’t like it .
So, it proves that they are they are putting politics above the lives of our troops already in Iraq! What pathetic bastards! I really, really, dislike the Reptile Party.
September 28th, 2006 at 5:10 pmLott’s from Mississippi—If your skin is a certain shade of dark in Mississippi, ya’ll all look the same, and ya”ll are are called boy.
September 28th, 2006 at 5:10 pmCaption Contest:
“Oh, Lord, please tell me this jackass didn’t just say what I think he did!”
September 28th, 2006 at 5:11 pmCaption Contest:
Lott: “Looks like the FBI are coming to arrest someone.”
September 28th, 2006 at 5:11 pmBush: “Quick, look like an imbicile.”
The comment about Israel, I think, goes right to the heart of why so many Americans don’t understand what is going on over there. It sounds like Lott has swallowed the grand Israeli mythology completely. The reality is that the founding of Israel was one of the last vestiges of European colonialism and indigenous people were massacred and exiled to make way for the european immigration. If one doesn’t understand this, it is easy to see the Palestinain/Israeli conflict as just a band of crazed relgious fanatics attempting to kill the noble Israelis.
September 28th, 2006 at 5:12 pmcaption contest;
George,”Say Trent, how we gonna float thru the ceiling when the end-time, clash of civilizations Kissinger told me about comes?”
Trent, “You don’t, your gonna sink thru the floor”
George, “What a funny way to get to heaven!”
September 28th, 2006 at 5:12 pmCould an observer in Europe during America’s Civil War tell the difference between a Yankee and a Rebel just by looking? This is some such blatant ignorance I cannot even stomach it. Stupid, dumb man. Stupid.
I hope his God is watching, because this is grounds for going straight to HELL.
September 28th, 2006 at 5:12 pmYour outrage should be against the repuiblicans!!!! their in charge
September 28th, 2006 at 5:13 pmBy the way, the collary is “now if they look different from you, it’s fine to kill ‘em.”
September 28th, 2006 at 5:14 pmNew al-Qaeda tape urges kidnappings
The new leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq has called for Westerners in the country to be kidnapped in a new audiotape released on the internet.
Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, also known as Abu Ayyub al-Masri, called for the kidnapping of Westerners to swap for a Muslim jailed in the United States, according to an internet audio tape issued on Thursday.
OR COULD IT BE NEW WATERBOARDING VIDEOS ?????
September 28th, 2006 at 5:15 pmLook around, We have the same kind of nut-case religious nuts here in the USA
September 28th, 2006 at 5:15 pmNew al-Qaeda tape urges kidnappings
I Should have read the whole article first …???? OH OH Problems ???
September 28th, 2006 at 5:18 pmHe also called on scientists to join the fighting in Iraq to develop and test biological or “dirty” weapons.
“We are in dire need of you. The field of jihad can satisfy your scientific ambitions and the large American bases [in Iraq] are good places to test your unconventional weapons, whether biological or dirty,” he said.
If he could only transfer those views to this country and African-Americans. The GOP is supposedly cooking up strategies for Iraq, yet they don’teven know difference between Sunni and Shiite Muslims? Isn’t that a bit important in Iraq? These folks are really scary…
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Well, the words just come spilling out of his mouth don’t they?
September 28th, 2006 at 5:21 pmwow…TweedleDumb and TweedleDumber. i can’t believe Lott would say that ONLY the MEDIA is obsessing about Iraq. I beg to differ. Every Wednesday or Thursday people associated with the Democratic party are out protesting the “unimportant” war in the Orange Circle (Orange County, CA). And I realize that I’m not as “learned” as our esteemed leaders here, but I’m fairly sure those war protest signs were referring to that silly little place called ummm…..IRAQ!
September 28th, 2006 at 5:22 pm… not being funny but i did suggest the other day that these Super bases are easy targets ………. looks like they got the message…… Perhaps I should be more carefull than to suggest great ideas ????
Like say Lebabon picking up the 1 million unexploded cluster bombs and straping them onto their rockets and firing them back into isreal
perhaps i should not say these things
September 28th, 2006 at 5:23 pmTrent Lott’s foot perpetually stays in his mouth. But seriously, we hear of Sunni-on-Shiite violence and vice versa all the time. How do the Sunni’s recognize the Shiites and vice versa out amongst the general public? I have never heard an answer to this. If someone knows, please enlighten me. Are there subtle differences in the clothing and headdress that would indicate to which branch of Islam one belongs? Or, are these killings taking place in or near the groups’ respective mosques, or in neighborhoods heavily populated by one group or the other, where it is assumed that people out on the street belong to the targeted group?
On the other topic - I’m sure the families of all the American men and women who have died fighting in Iraq will be comforted to hear that Iraq isn’t one of Bush’s or Lott’s priorities. If they think that by asking the hard questions, the press is “obsessed” with Iraq, then it shows just how out of touch with average Americans they are.
September 28th, 2006 at 5:25 pmThat explains why Iraq is not in a civil war.
September 28th, 2006 at 5:27 pmIn other words, if Sunis and Shites did not look alike, it would be perfectly understandable to trent why they don’t get along.
September 28th, 2006 at 5:27 pmOf course, they’re not thinking about Iraq. They are too busy thinking about:
1. trashing gays
2. what might be happening in your uterus (if you have one)
3. how they can profit off of the destruction of the middle class
4. how they can help the terrorists by selling the fear for them
5. how they can allow the next attack so war Iran will be “justified”.
6. how much money they will make off of the death of our troops and civilians.
….. oh, and how they are going to hide the truth about all of their Reptilian activities from us.
September 28th, 2006 at 5:29 pmIs George getting a message from God in this picture???
September 28th, 2006 at 5:29 pm# 64
A poster on Huffpo posted a couple of good links a minute ago..
For those who are saying they don’t know the difference, read this.
September 28th, 2006 at 5:30 pmhttp://www.spiritonline.com/ files/ messages/ 11/ 258.html?0…
or this.
http://hnn.us/articles/934.html…
The difference is profound and deep.
Much more than Catholic / Protestant.
New al-Qaeda tape urges kidnappings
Read the above article its very clever al-Masri seems to be trying completely new ideas
1. kidnapping of people for swaps with Muslims in Guatanamo
2. looking for biological weapons to attack American superbases
3. calling a ceasefire on Iraqi for a month
I like it this guys got panache
September 28th, 2006 at 5:33 pmah…that’s what I smelled…the smoke from the crosses! For a moment I thought it was rotten eggs??
September 28th, 2006 at 5:33 pmAh, for the good old days, when Iraq was the central front in the War on Terror.
Thus the Republicans dismiss the blood sacrifice of our children.
September 28th, 2006 at 5:34 pm…and if they don’t care about the Iraq war, then why don’t we get the hell out? Liars - all of them!
September 28th, 2006 at 5:34 pmI’m with Joanster above - #64. How does one ‘physically’ tell the difference? Which believe or not, may have been Mr. Lott’s intent when expressing his opinion.
I surely am trying to understand the spiritual/religious diffences between Shia and Sunni. I don’t get it.
September 28th, 2006 at 5:36 pm#74, see # 69
September 28th, 2006 at 5:38 pmThe Republicans can’t se the “nuance”. Why do Catholics kill Protestants? They all look the same..Why do religious nuts hate Gays, they al look the same…
September 28th, 2006 at 5:39 pmCaption contest.
Hallelujia, he said something dumber than “misunderestimated!”
I’m trying to figure out the difference between the “evil terrorists” and the United States.
- Both kill innocent civilians (though the US is WAY ahead in the tally)
- Both use religious extremism as justification for their actions
- Both kidnap
- Both torture
- Both claim as their “noble cause” the complete extermination of the other
So what is the difference? Seriously.
September 28th, 2006 at 5:40 pmLott needs to review Chavez’s UN speech where he explains the entire problem - Bush is El Diablo - the smell of sulphur is affecting the entire world - Sunnis kill Shiite the same way Christians - those oh so wonderful people, all holier than thou don’t cha know - Christians kill Jews and Christians kill Moslems, and Christians kill swarthy types and Christians kill defenseless women and children - let’s see, who do Christians not kill - that would be a shorter easire to handle list
September 28th, 2006 at 5:41 pmcaption contest entry
What?? You want me to what?
September 28th, 2006 at 5:41 pmTell this assbite next to me to shut the f**k UP??
Yes, Lord.
#77
September 28th, 2006 at 5:42 pmVery little.
How do guys like this get elected to anything?
September 28th, 2006 at 5:42 pmAre Americans that stupid?
Joanster and Wordsmith,
September 28th, 2006 at 5:43 pmWelcome to civil war. What were the physical differences between the north and south during the US civil war? Or between the Irish and the British? Or between the conservatives and liberals. Or between the christian germans and the jewish germans? Shall I go on, or do you get the friggin point?
#81 -
September 28th, 2006 at 5:44 pmMississippians are as Mississippians do.
It’s hard for me, a thinking, American woman, to understand what’s wrong with these people. Why do they think their white male god is the only god? Why do they hate civil rights and the environment? Why do they hate women and gays? Why they believe they are entitled to live a cushy life while the rest of the country struggles? How do you tell the difference between a decent white man and a GOP member? They all look the same to me!
A**hole!
September 28th, 2006 at 5:44 pmThis is pure insanity.
September 28th, 2006 at 5:46 pmJeff
Americans are children who want to believe that El Diablo isn’t lying to them. AMericans want to believe that any President of the US, even the devil himself, is somehow above normal mortals, having almost god-like knowledge who has only their (the children’s) safety and interests in mind.
They insist on believing this in the face of corruption (privatization and wholesale raiding of the US Treasury) and lying (invading another country based on lies).
Chavez, by calling Bush El Diablo, revealed to the believers that the emperor is not wearing any clothes.
September 28th, 2006 at 5:47 pmAll look the same?
September 28th, 2006 at 5:50 pmYeah just like the majority of senior senators: Old, White,
Scotch Drinking, Bad Hair and a smile that doubles as a sneer.
FastPony
September 28th, 2006 at 5:50 pmAmericans believe Bush because they like criminals - you know - all those movies about “Good Fellas” and the Godfather - Americans have a romance with punks and chislers. Bush is a rich punk and a chisler. He has no morals, and Americans like that, they identify with that - the amoral lout who has no conscience. The Sociopath. Americans are in love with the sociopath - and TV loves to show movie after movie about sociopaths and the glamor of it all.
JJanes says that Israel never considered Osama a threat;
The Bush Priority is Iran..Iraq, as bad as it is, is not the focus, the focus is starting more war, around the end of October is my guess.
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I surely am trying to understand the spiritual/religious diffences between Shia and Sunni. I don’t get it.
Comment by Wordsmith
Just as chinese can tell each others province by the language, as a hispanic knows another from a different region, as an indian speaks differently from different tribes, as a texan speaks differently from a northerner.
The Iraqis are also changing their names because that also is a marker of being shia or sunni..
cmon people, Lott knows this.
September 28th, 2006 at 5:53 pmPointless, I know, but I just realized that I left a word out of a previous post. For the record, my comment in #9 should have read:
This tells me that they don’t consider most Americans to be “real peopleâ€.
Didn’t want anyone to think I’ve suddenly changed sides.
September 28th, 2006 at 5:54 pmCaption Contest: George, “Look up there, it’s a bright shiny object!” Trent, “I can’t look up, this road-kill on my head will fall off.”
September 28th, 2006 at 5:55 pmWelcome to civil war. What were the physical differences between the north and south during the US civil war? Or between the Irish and the British? Or between the conservatives and liberals. Or between the christian germans and the jewish germans? Shall I go on, or do you get the friggin point? [Comment by Stating+the+Obvious]
Yeah, you’re cute.
There’s no physical difference of course. It has to do more with difference in theological & worship practices. I’ve been told, though I don’t know for a fact, it is sometimes “obvious” from an individual’s name.
September 28th, 2006 at 5:56 pmOh, that’s great he thinks only the media is obsessed on Iraq; he believes most real people don’t worry about Iraq. Great, tell that to the families of the more than 2,700 Americans that have died there. Tell that to the over 20,000 injured. How dare you be so flippant you SOB!
If it is not important then bring our troops home!
September 28th, 2006 at 5:58 pmThis may help. I found this about the differences between shia and sunni
The Sunni branch believes that the first four caliphs–Mohammed’s successors–rightfully took his place as the leaders of Muslims. They recognize the heirs of the four caliphs as legitimate religious leaders. These heirs ruled continuously in the Arab world until the break-up of the Ottoman Empire following the end of the First World War.
Shiites, in contrast, believe that only the heirs of the fourth caliph, Ali, are the legitimate successors of Mohammed. In 931 the Twelfth Imam disappeared. This was a seminal event in the history of Shiite Muslims. According to R. Scott Appleby, a professor of history at the University of Notre Dame, “Shiite Muslims, who are concentrated in Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon, [believe they] had suffered the loss of divinely guided political leadership” at the time of the Imam’s disappearance. Not “until the ascendancy of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1978″ did they believe that they had once again begun to live under the authority of a legitimate religious figure.
September 28th, 2006 at 6:01 pmLOTT: “You’re [the media] the only ones who obsess on the war in Iraq. We don’t and the real people out in the real world don’t for the most part.“
TRANSLATION: “The dumbasses in the red states who constantly vote for Reptiles like me, don’t care what is happening in the world - they’re ignorant, selfish fools - thank god”
September 28th, 2006 at 6:02 pmAre they just waiting to declare Marshall Law? They must be getting ready to bomb Iran, if Iraq has just become an obsession to the invisible opposition. They vote to let the President off the hook for previous acts of “Do it it first and have your party cover for you later” shtick regarding habeas corpus.Their power is creating a bubble for them to wallow in like a circle jerk with free crystal meth. They’ll all be dead soon and this is their last great erection for the Right before the election. Denial is part of the PR strategy, plain and simple. Next it will be a bill that says Congress can’t cut off funding for Wars currently in play.
September 28th, 2006 at 6:04 pmWordsmith,
Apologies for being unnecessarily harsh, but I believe that such questions actually play into the misinformation campaign. Such questions, actually, could be asked of any conflict. Looking down from Mars, would not all humans look alike? They all have the same physical features, really.
The obvious point here is the lack of humanity, and compassion, and morals that are being displayed. You either immediately distance yourself from such comments or you are colored by them.
September 28th, 2006 at 6:08 pmWho’s Trent Lott? All white male christian republican conservatives look the same to me.
September 28th, 2006 at 6:11 pmRacist republicans.They all look the same to me.
September 28th, 2006 at 6:14 pmIf there was such a thing as a whitey macaca, Trent’s the poster macaca.
September 28th, 2006 at 6:16 pmPerhaps it isn’t sunnis v. shiites, or vice-versa (Trent Lott has an insight there) perhaps it’s ‘foreign-orchestrated’ mayhem, for mayhem’s sake. Humm, which ‘foreigners’? For what purpose?
September 28th, 2006 at 6:16 pm“Why do the Carolinians want to shoot the New Yorkers? They all look the same to me.”
- James Buchanan
September 28th, 2006 at 6:17 pmDon’t you want to just strangle the man? He has no sense of decency and is a moron.
September 28th, 2006 at 6:19 pmI agree with you here. I think Lott shows his ignorance as thoroughly as Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Perle, et.al, did in attacking Iraq. They didn’t know shit about the country and its people and STILL don’t. It would also appear as though none of them have any interest in knowing.
September 28th, 2006 at 6:28 pmCaption contest- Bush ” I wonder whats for lunch-I like them sandwiches with no crust”.
September 28th, 2006 at 6:31 pmI can’t tell one Republican from another. They all look alike to me. And that smell!
September 28th, 2006 at 6:33 pmWith the Republicans constantly shooting themselves in the foot, it’s a wonder they’ve enough ammo left over to wage their wars.
September 28th, 2006 at 6:37 pmI do think Lott is trash himself, but THEY DO LOOK ALIKE!
They are of the same ancestry. Just like Palestinians and Isrealis. They have a ‘family fued’ a couple of thousand or hundred years ago and Kaboom, there you have it. The Hatfields and the McCoys looked the same as well.
September 28th, 2006 at 6:39 pm#107 -
September 28th, 2006 at 6:40 pmIt’s a wonder they can stand at all!
I certainly can’t stand them!
If Lott had a hemorroidectomy, it’d be an all day job and he’d come out with a face lift.
September 28th, 2006 at 6:42 pmNeo-cons are easy to tell apart, they have no sense of humour.
September 28th, 2006 at 6:43 pmI mean come on yall ‘Turd Blossom’ is not funny.
caption contest;
George,”doo doo deee dooo woop de doo dahh”
September 28th, 2006 at 6:49 pmTenet,”shutup already..jeezus”
George, “look I’m thinking, see?”
[…] Sure as the day is long, Trent Lott is racist. I’ll give him a hint, though: Sunnis drive like this, while Shiites drive like this. america, asshole, iraq, politics race […]
September 28th, 2006 at 6:51 pmweasel—-If it makes you feel any better, Lott just isn’t very bright.
September 28th, 2006 at 6:51 pmWhy is the Right so biased and bigoted and hateful?
Probably because the Bible specifically says you must hate one another, and then kill them.
Or, did I misread it?
September 28th, 2006 at 7:00 pmRe: ‘Why Do Sunnis Kill Shiites? … They All Look The Same To Me’
Oh, right. Since they all look the same, ie. the ‘other’ isn’t a negro then everything should be peachy. According to Lott, the only reason to kill each other is if ‘they’ don’t look the same. Sheeeesh.
September 28th, 2006 at 7:05 pmWhy do the republicans hate democrats. I don’t see any difference in their looks do you all. Shame we can’t put the SOUL on the outside. Then the world would see worst evil then the devil.
September 28th, 2006 at 7:05 pmWhy am I not surprised …
September 28th, 2006 at 7:08 pmI saw a recent bumper sticker which read “God bless our stupid President”….gotta add Lott and the rest of the same mind righteous right electorate cronies to the next bumper sticker press run. And unseat their bigoted Republican party in Nov.
September 28th, 2006 at 7:08 pmThey All Look The Same To Me
Sen. Trent Lott
I was in Talkeetna, Alaska one day in the early 1980’s and stopped at the local roadhouse for a beer. A sign near the door said, “Hippies use side door,” with an arrow. There was no side door. Hippies weren’t welcome as the area or the roadhouse, even though there was a sizeable summer population who lived in cardboard shacks and canvas lean-tos along the railroad tracks and just off the highway.
Inside were all these long-haired, grubby looking locals, mostly miners, mountain guides, or construction workers, wearing well-worn shirts, old ball caps, and faded jeans, many with holes in them. I asked the female bartender about the sign, was told about the hatred the locals had for “hippies” and how they were rousted whenever they came around.
I looked around and asked quietly so as not to be overheard, “But how can you tell which ones were the hippies?” and mentioned that they all looked alike to me.
She smiled and in so many words said, “You don’t need to be able to the difference. Its enough that we do.”
September 28th, 2006 at 7:09 pmIn his defense, that is probably not racist, his lead in which is basically: “I don’t understand why . . .”
Could be followed by any number of statements by Mr. Lott.
September 28th, 2006 at 7:09 pm“Not only has Marxism survived, it is thriving and has in some ways grown stronger. Leftist ideas about Multiculturalism and de-facto open borders have achieved a virtual hegemony in public discourse, their critics vilified and demonized. By hiding their intentions under labels such as “anti-racism†and “tolerance,†Leftists have achieved a degree of censorship of public discourse they could never have dreamt of had they openly stated that their intention was to radically transform Western civilization and destroy its foundations.
The Left have become ideological orphans after the Cold War, or perhaps we should call them ideological mercenaries. Although the viable economic alternative to capitalism didn’t work out, their hatred for this system never subsided, it merely transformed into other forms. Multiculturalism is just a different word for “divide and conquer,†pitting various ethnic and cultural groups against each other and destroying the coherence of Western society from within.”
Theodore Dalrymple
September 28th, 2006 at 7:11 pmHere is the reason some people follow neocons, in a nutshell. Hard-core Right-wingers are innately insecure. They follow the Christian god, because they believe they become important if they give themselves over to Jesus. After all, they get to DIRECTLY speak with a higher being once they accept Jesus “into their hearts”. In the same light, they follow the neocon leaders because it’s their one shot at being important on *this* world. If they don’t, they just do their 80 years and turn to dust like the rest of us. It’s all about making themselves important or relevant before they die.
September 28th, 2006 at 7:27 pmI don’t know why a confederate from Virginia would kill a Yankee from Maryland. They look the same to me.
September 28th, 2006 at 7:29 pmA bill which creates a legal umbrella for the torture (and extermination) of another human being, that allows for the suspension of habeas corpus, retroactively give immunity to those who have already broken US and international law in these areas, and allows the potus to determine who can be subjected to all of these atrocities (if you did not know that this can effect YOU personally, let your ignorance be gone) has passed the US House of Representatives and just now passed the US Senate.
A darker day there has never been for the United States of America. A more heinous affront to the ideals and principles of the Constitution of the United States of America has never been levied.
Look around you and absorb the sights, sounds, and smell of this moment, and then bow your head. For I can tell you with absolute certainty, without the slightest hint of a doubt, that this moment represents the end of the greatest experiment in democracy and, by extension, the United States of America.
September 28th, 2006 at 7:32 pmAngleton offers a quote: “The Left have become ideological orphans after the Cold War, or perhaps we should call them ideological mercenaries.”
What a steaming pile of nonsense. The Cold War was fueled by conservatives on both sides. Ever since the Cold War ended, conservatives have been searching for a new boogeyman and they’ve found him in terrorism. And, newsflash, Angleton: some of the biggest capitalists on the planet are lefties, dumbass.
September 28th, 2006 at 7:35 pmThe Shi’a/Sunni sectarian violence in Iraq is not exclusively sectarian. It is just that the Shi’as are cooperating with the Americans since they know they’re going to end up with majority control if Iraq stabilizes, which is unacceptable to the Iraqi resistance, comprised mainly of Sunnis.
September 28th, 2006 at 7:39 pmAh, you just gotta love the incredible, critical thinking capacity of Fristy and the Neocon gang. They all look alike?!! And we wonder why….
September 28th, 2006 at 7:53 pmAnd Trent looks exactly like every other closeted wingnut cocksucker I see. Funny how that shit works.
September 28th, 2006 at 7:54 pmHow can a man who has created this fiasco for rest of “the people” come across in such a manner. He obviously doesn’t want to understand his own folly or that of his republican teamates. They reap the profits of war and care less of the suffering that they create. They never served military duty but cut funding to the troops. As long as the money is directed to their pocket, screw all else. The Iraquis and the American people that he represents are second class lowlifes that mean NOTHING AT ALL TO HIM. He is a topflight republican ready to take your rights before a court away. He is the scum of American earth.
September 28th, 2006 at 7:55 pmTrent, bury your head in the gulf mud!
Instead of dumbass Rumsfeld planning an exit strategy he’s still waiting for the flowers and candy.
September 28th, 2006 at 7:57 pmHaha, I have trouble telling some white people apart. Oops, I guess thats definitely not PC
September 28th, 2006 at 8:01 pmhe’d be right if he’d be equally willing to extend his logic to white people - why do people who otherwise look the same kill each other….RELIGION…
what a shithole we live in
September 28th, 2006 at 8:11 pmMost of all you hypocrites on this page claiming that Trent is a racist probably can’t tell the difference either. They do look alike because, and stating the obvious is certainly not racism.
September 28th, 2006 at 8:13 pmIt’s amazing that Trent Lott is so stupid as to show the world how arrogant and ignorant he is.
September 28th, 2006 at 8:16 pmAdditionally, you Democrats out there bashing the Republican party need to look at your own party’s racism. The Sr. Democrate US Senator, Robert Byrdd is an admited former KKK Klansman requiter. Just look it up for yourself. Unbelievable how ignorant you guys can be.
September 28th, 2006 at 8:17 pmI can’t spell very well, but anyway that’s besides the point :)
September 28th, 2006 at 8:18 pmyou boys got it wrong - bobby byrd is the kkk member and the real racists
September 28th, 2006 at 8:27 pmSpoken like a true bigot he is one of the republican’s finast. Why are southerners so stupid? They are still pox on America’s ass.
September 28th, 2006 at 8:33 pmWhat, now all you pansy ass libruls care about the Iraquies. You make me sick!
September 28th, 2006 at 8:34 pmHis statement adequately sums up the totality of his understanding of the subject matter.
September 28th, 2006 at 8:36 pmThere is nothing wrong with that quote.
I’m a liberal and anti-war, but read that quote carefully. There’s nothing wrong with it. He’s right–Americans don’t understand it and it points to a fundamental flaw in our approach to rebuilding Iraq.
I don’t like it when anyone tries to make a big thing out of nothing–and I think that’s what most people are doing in this case.
September 28th, 2006 at 8:46 pmI haven’t read through all of the comments here, so I apologize in advance if this has been said.
Trent Lott is a racist, always has been a racist, so it doesn’t surprise me that he said that stupid shit about the Sunnis and Shiites.
This is what made me feel as if my sanity had slipped — again:
What about our sons and daughters over there? They are dying or coming home terribly injured, and Lott & crew are just not thinking about it all that much?
It is simply unbelievable. They are wasting the lives of our sons and daughters for nothing, and think nothing of it.
I am stunned.
September 28th, 2006 at 8:53 pmPrivate #136,
September 28th, 2006 at 8:53 pmRobert Byrd’s mistake was that of a young man with a misunderstanding of the KKK. People change, the Pope was in the Hitler Youth Movement, does that make him a Nazi today? Lott on the other hand has never changed his spots. He is still a southern bigot and always will be. His mouth got him demoted once, guess he’s too dumb to learn from his mistakes. I guess you can’t fix stupid.
He needs to be informed about Islam, that it has more than one view, but more than two, but the majority are the two that he thinks of as one.
As I have come to learn, in those parts of the world, the difference, is, shall we say more bitter and wider apart than the “Christian” church of Protestant and Catholicism views. And yes, they fought wars between themselves as well at some point in time.
September 28th, 2006 at 8:57 pmI guess it’s two more years of rule by the Neanderthals. SIGH
September 28th, 2006 at 9:05 pmI hate to be this bloody uninformed, and I should know, but I don’t.
Why do they hate each other? Why do Sunnis kill Shiites?
I don’t know. I imagine it’s religious differences, but perhaps it’s a class thing or a socio-economic thing or something else entirely.
September 28th, 2006 at 9:11 pmI agree with Trent. He and his KKK friends kill people based on skin color. It’s easier to know who to hate that way.
September 28th, 2006 at 9:21 pmHayden,
Read about the Sunnis & Shiias here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Historic_background_of_the_Sunni-Shi%27a_split
September 28th, 2006 at 9:22 pm2 more years of rule by the Neanderthals. Can the world survive that?
September 28th, 2006 at 9:24 pmCan the world survive that?
Comment by artsyguy1954
No, the world cannot survive. Don’t give up…
September 28th, 2006 at 9:29 pmYeah I’m thinking some basic education would be in order. How about some classes in diversity cultural sensitivity? Our state government requires it.
And thats the professional answer.
September 28th, 2006 at 9:47 pmI don’t know the specifics about the Sunni and Shia, but it’s obvious they have some serious differences, they are willing to kill each other over Sen. Lott. So you are stupid or racist, which is it, oh both.
September 28th, 2006 at 9:49 pm#
Please read this WHAT AMERICA DID TO IRAN
Comment by Tobey+Tall — September 28, 2006 @ 5:03 pm
Not just the U.S., but Britian as well. Interesting background here…and yes…it was about oil…in this case, being nationalized. Chavez and Morales better watch out. We’re being fed the same rhetoric about them that this country heard in the 50’s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossadegh
September 28th, 2006 at 9:56 pmI’m no fan of Lott’s but he was not saying that physical similarities make it impossible to distinguish individual Iraqis from one another. That is, he was not saying “all Iraqis look the same.” I don’t view his meaning as offensive. Iraqis do indeed look like Iraqis to me.
We’re never going to get rid of the Republican stranglehold on power if we invoke the KKK everytime we’re victimized by poor word choice.
September 28th, 2006 at 9:58 pmI guess Lott has no respect for any earlier Americans that looked like nazi’s or the British like he does. His wars are based on black or brown vs white. It’s not ever based on freedom, self determination, rights or any other thoughts of a equal and just world. For Mississippi people he must just be fine.
September 28th, 2006 at 10:07 pmGee, Trent, forgive me for obsessing over a mere comma on the road to the Rapture. I’m just having a little trouble getting past the slaughter of thousands and the squandering of our national treasure. I guess it’s just me.
September 28th, 2006 at 10:16 pmIf Strom were president we wouldn’t have these problems. I am sure this has been said but I couldn’t read all the comments.
September 28th, 2006 at 10:18 pm#17 LOL, ain’t that the truth.
September 28th, 2006 at 10:19 pmWhy are you all so sensitive about this statement ? I think all he is saying is that you cannot tell the different between shiites and sunnis easily. In fact, the difference has something to do with who are the rightful successors to the prophet mohammed in the 7th century. But everyone here is some uptight and eager to find something to cry PC fowl about they just dive right in.
September 28th, 2006 at 10:21 pmAm I the only one who doesn’t think this is a big deal? How DO you tell someone’s religious affiliation by looking at them? I don’t think I can tell a shiite from a sunni on sight, and I know I can’t tell a protestant from a catholic.
I also don’t really understand the incredibly violent sectarian problems in Iraq. How can two branches of the same religion kill each other. Some “religion of peace”.
This article, and all the comments looks like a typical right wing rant: take a comment out of context, misinterpret the meaning, add a healthy dose of faux outrage, and pile on. No thanks.
But, his other comment, about Iraq and that nobody but the media cares what is going on there…. Now that one is just batshit crazy.
September 28th, 2006 at 10:22 pmWell, aren’t you all just a bunch of hateful, politically correct, intolerant bunch with poor reading comprehension.
It’s truly the idot masses like those posting here (the irony of which is not lost on me) that make me sick.
September 28th, 2006 at 10:23 pmCan someone confirm this quote? Link to another reporter or transcript. List the reporters there or the intial source, please.
September 28th, 2006 at 10:24 pmLook around you and absorb the sights, sounds, and smell of this moment, and then bow your head. For I can tell you with absolute certainty, without the slightest hint of a doubt, that this moment represents the end of the greatest experiment in democracy and, by extension, the United States of America.
Comment by Stating+the+Obvious — September 28, 2006 @ 7:32 pm
Unfortunately, I think you’re probably right. The courage that it took to write and sign the statement below is lacking in the American people now. Some of us will protest, some of us will try to do even more. But it will take the kind of strength that our forefathers showed to stop this B.S. now. Click on the link, and check out the similarities to what we are facing, as American citizens, now.
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
http://www.ushistory.org/ declaration/ document/ index.htm
September 28th, 2006 at 10:26 pmTrent gets his shoes in different flavors. Now the taste of peppermint’s been in his mouth all day…
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September 28th, 2006 at 10:33 pmhttp://griperblade.blogspot.com - grumblings from the heartland
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Well, aren’t you all just a bunch of hateful, politically correct, intolerant bunch with poor reading comprehension.
“It’s truly the idot masses like those posting here (the irony of which is not lost on me) that make me sick.
Comment by DontTreadOnMe — September 28, 2006 @ 10:23 pm
Ignorant? Lott doesn’t know why these two groups fight each other, and have for centuries. Doesn’t he have access to books? The internet? So before you accuse us of idiocy, ask yourself why the hell Lott DOESN’T know WHY. His statement about not having discussed Iraq, of course, is what’s pissing us all off the most. It also makes it obvious what they DID talk about. So “Don’t Tread on Me,” go collect the money you’re being paid to post your “rebuttal” on a progressive website. By the way, your moniker…this is what is stands for and that sure as hell isn’t YOU!!!
“The snake on the flag is a symbol of the 13 colonies’ defiance of the British Empire and King George III. The rattler gives fair warning to all who would threaten it.”
You, on the other hand, defend an imperial presidency (”King George”) and defend an “Empire” that is also destroying it’s own founding country.
September 28th, 2006 at 10:41 pm“A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.”
September 28th, 2006 at 10:43 pmWilliam James (1842 - 1910)
They not only look alike they are all cousins! They are also all muslims! It’s like the missionary baptists killing the southern baptists.
September 28th, 2006 at 10:44 pmBut your right about the republicans. We need a strong leader like Jimmy Carter back in there. Then we could all jack off and take our dope without worrying about big brother watching us or starting a war.
#166 You are so right. We are all idots (not sure what that means).
September 28th, 2006 at 10:52 pmWe “Secular Progressives” look the same as you but from what I hear from Billy O’Reilly we are Satan spawn. Or is there some kind of stigmata that tips you off?
September 28th, 2006 at 10:54 pmStating-the-obvious. It’s the death of our Republic.
September 28th, 2006 at 10:58 pmYour article“Lott On Iraq: ‘Why Do Sunnis Kill Shiites? … They All Look The Same To Me” attracted my attention!
The people who come forward as leaders of the people to solve the social and economic problems in the society are the same people who created those problems in the first place!
For 2000 yrs, they brainwashed people to believe in and worship different ancient astronauts (the Anunnakis, Nefilims, from Nibiru) under different names (Yahweh, Jehovah, Allah, Krishna, Thoth, Ptah, Osiris, Horus, Isis, Ishtar, Inanna, Utu Shamash, Enlil, Zeus, Baal, Adad, Teshub, Ninurta, Nanna, En