Rep. Westmoreland Warns That Iraqis Won’t Just ‘Go Back to Tending Sheep and Herding Goats’
Rep. Westmoreland Warns That Iraqis Won’t Just ‘Go Back to Tending Sheep and Herding Goats’
During yesterday’s House floor debate on escalation, Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA) unwittingly demonstrated his profound ignorance of Iraqi culture. “Some people from the other side seem to believe that if we pull out of Iraq, the Iraqi people are going to go back to tending sheep and herding goats,” he said. Watch it:
Westmoreland’s statement comes as little surprise. Last year, he led opposition to renewal of the Voting Rights Act, arguing that racism in the South is as irrelevant today as U.S.-British tensions over the Revolutionary War: “Do we treat the British any differently because of the Stamp Act? If we’re going to do that, then let’s go back to the Indians and say they butchered Custer.”
Unfortunately, the civil war in Iraq has decimated the country’s once-thriving professional class. Roughly 40 percent of Iraq’s middle class — which at one time included professors, doctors, and business owners — has fled Iraq since the war began, U.N. officials estimate. “The flight has undermined basic services such as water and sanitation and disrupted commerce, making it increasingly difficult for Iraqi society to function.”
Transcript:
This is not about President Bush because I think President Bush has tried every way, Mr. Speaker, he knows how to make this a successful campaign in Iraq and Afghanistan. And he continues to come up with new ideas through the help and the advice of his military commanders to win this war on terror. This is a global war on terror. Some people from the other side seem to believe that if we pull out of Iraq, that the Iraqi people are going to go back to tending sheep and herding goats. That’s not what’s going to happen. If we pull out of Iraq, what’s going to happen is you are going to see more bloodshed than we have seen in a long time in this world.
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That statement coming from his pie-hole, says he has no respect for the Iraqi’s and hasn’t bothered to find out what they do.
February 14th, 2007 at 11:55 amNeither will the US…
February 14th, 2007 at 11:55 amcivil war is something the congressman is deeply concerned about. his side’s loss to the yankee, and him not being able to whip his nagra’s still bothers him deeply. he wants to be sure that his kind can continue to do it to someone, fo ever. the iraqazoid’s are just the ticket. the iranocrats are next.
February 14th, 2007 at 11:56 amSounds like Westmoreland is following the GOP script to the “t”. So if we pull out, the farmers of Iraq won’t be able to get back to the business of raising sheep and goats. Sheep and goat herding is probably all that will be left to do in Iraq when we pull out. We already destroyed the cities so there will be no jobs left there for teachers, doctors, and all other professionals.
February 14th, 2007 at 11:57 am“This is not about President Bush because I think President Bush has tried every way, Mr. Speaker, he knows how to make this a successful campaign in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
Really ?
Who is this about ?
Who’s to blame now, the Iraqi’s?
George Bush has a brilliant plan for success.
It just isn’t based in reality.
February 14th, 2007 at 11:59 amUnfortunately, the civil war in Iraq has decimated the country’s once-thriving professional class. Roughly 40 percent of Iraq’s middle class — which at one time included professors, doctors, and business owners — has fled Iraq since the war began, U.N. officials estimate. “The flight has undermined basic services such as water and sanitation and disrupted commerce, making it increasingly difficult for Iraqi society to function.â€
shhhhh, don’t tell the 30%’ers! Because the “liberal media” conveniently forgets to point out the rebuilding of schools (that the Iraqis’ are too afraid to attend)
February 14th, 2007 at 11:59 amThe Dems’ plan to have every representative talk for five minutes was pure brilliance…the Repubs prove themselves to be idiots every time they speak.
February 14th, 2007 at 12:00 pm“Tending sheep and herding goats?”
Didn’t anyone tell Westmoreland that that’s not on:
February 14th, 2007 at 12:02 pm“The Top 10 GOP Talking Points.”
Republican’ts have some real dummies on their team. Between this and the Davy Crockett deal, they are just a-wowin’ ‘em there in the D.C. with all their high-falutin’ book learnin’. Somebody put these guys in charge of something, and quick!! We’ve got the next Scientific Revolution brewin’ right there in the halls fo Congress.
February 14th, 2007 at 12:02 pmThis goes on much longer, all that will be left are sheep, goats and America’s new oil reserves.
February 14th, 2007 at 12:06 pmSo the bible-thumping GOP thinks that the areas where the bible took place are still as primitive as they were in the old testament. No surprise there…
February 14th, 2007 at 12:06 pmi hate IGNORANCE… after BIGOTRY and RACISM…
seems this guy has it all covered…
February 14th, 2007 at 12:06 pm.
As a native Southerner – a very BLUE native southerner – these types are the dinosaurs that unfortunately, can’t become extinct soon enough….
February 14th, 2007 at 12:07 pmI’m sooooo sorry.
This is not about President Bush because I think President Bush has tried every way, Mr. Speaker, he knows how to make this a successful campaign in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Then why are we still there after so many years? If he knows how to make it successfull, he must be keeping that plan a secret from the military commanders.
And he continues to come up with new ideas through the help and the advice of his military commanders to win this war on terror.
You mean the commanders whose advice he has ignored and the ones he fired for not agreeing with him?
This is a global war on terror.
Iraq has no relationship to the war on Terror, they were supposed to have WMDs remember?
Some people from the other side seem to believe that if we pull out of Iraq, that the Iraqi people are going to go back to tending sheep and herding goats. That’s not what’s going to happen.
This one is way too stupid to even respond to.
If we pull out of Iraq, what’s going to happen is you are going to see more bloodshed than we have seen in a long time in this world.
Yeah either way ,if we stay or if we leave it is a freeking mess. You think it might have been better not to start the war over a bunch of lies to begin with?
Pull our troops out, if the 2 factions want to have a civil war, you are deliberately killing our troops by keeping them there in themiddle of it.
February 14th, 2007 at 12:08 pmBut, but, it is the Democrats that are the racists who look down upon those in the Middle East.
Right.
Hey Westmoreland, ever see a satellite photo of Baghdad? It looks like LA you frigging nitwit.
-GSD
February 14th, 2007 at 12:08 pmMust make Georgians’ so proud to know they are represented by such a well informed man.
/Sarcasm
February 14th, 2007 at 12:09 pmNeocon policy is rooted in racism. It’s why they will lose.
February 14th, 2007 at 12:09 pmConcept for a new television show:
Republican Idle
Got some good acts lineing up, now..
February 14th, 2007 at 12:09 pmBrokeback Westmoreland, Achin’ Davy Crockett, the Weeping Boener……
Don’t want to be pickey….but ‘decimated’? That refers to a depletion of 10%. It means one-in-ten.
February 14th, 2007 at 12:09 pmRep Westmoreland needs to quit Congress and go back to gigging frogs, shooting squirrels, and popping off firecrackers.
February 14th, 2007 at 12:10 pmIsn’t this the guy Colbert nailed for humping the 10 commandments and then when asked, he couldn’t name one? Idiot.
February 14th, 2007 at 12:10 pmhe knows how to make this a successful campaign in Iraq and Afghanistan.
uh, define “success”… and for whom? …
February 14th, 2007 at 12:11 pmso much republican stupid, stated on the record and preserved for perpetuity
February 14th, 2007 at 12:12 pmThat next soldier who is about to die, I would like him to come home instead.
February 14th, 2007 at 12:13 pmThis goes to show that the progressive Democrats in the South need to take their States back from idiots like Westmoreland. The South needs more feet on the street working for progressive candidates.
February 14th, 2007 at 12:14 pm#20 Zooey
Rep Westmoreland needs to quit Congress and go back to gigging frogs, shooting squirrels, and popping off firecrackers.
…and nailing his cousins.
February 14th, 2007 at 12:15 pmBush defined success today in his press conference. He said that success won’t look the same as the success in WWII. Bush stated that success in Iraq would be less bombing of civilians. Bush also stated that there will never be 0 bombing of civilians… that there will always be some bombs going off. Bush just wants less of it. Now, isn’t that clear without being specific?
February 14th, 2007 at 12:18 pm#26 – how about nailing his sisters and brother?
February 14th, 2007 at 12:19 pmSpeaking of sheep, didn’t WasteMoreLand graduate from ‘Flock U’?
I herd it somewhere.
I know, I know, ba-a-a-a-d joke.
Seriously, it is great to watch these assclowns dip themselves in doo-doo for 5 minutes. Doesn’t Hoekstra look like the shaved head guy on Lost?
Is he?
He tried to challenge the whole resolution with some cute trick, but was politely informed ‘only the majority party member sponsoring the resolution is allowed to make changes.’
Ahh, the smell of Neosluts failing & flailing in the morning. How sweet it is!
February 14th, 2007 at 12:19 pmMoronitry at its finest.
February 14th, 2007 at 12:19 pmSpudge, I wrote that one down immediately and put it in my quotes file.
-GSD
February 14th, 2007 at 12:21 pmThis is the result of the Bush presidency.
A n American travesty.
-GSD
February 14th, 2007 at 12:23 pmYeah, I heard that statement about “Sometimes money trumps….. peace.” Couldn’t believe my ears. Didn’t Bush realize that he just explained his Iraq, Middle East policy with that one sentance?
Bush likes to ramble on. He should learn to be more concise because he winds up contracting himself during his rambles. I must admit, he is funny. Maybe his next job should be a “Stand Up” comic… but then again, everything that Bush touches, he destroys.
February 14th, 2007 at 12:27 pmgood one, spudge… raven caught that one on the cnn thread @ 11:36…
February 14th, 2007 at 12:27 pmhopefully, TP will post that one in a thread…
in what context did he say that? as if…
“Rep Westmoreland needs to quit Congress and go back to gigging frogs, shooting squirrels, and popping off firecrackers.
…and nailing his cousins.”
and running moonshine ‘cross county lines
February 14th, 2007 at 12:27 pmAnother ignoramus republican hick…He should be out tending the sheep and raking the shit back in Bumfjuck Georgia or preaching to his ignorant christian fundamentalist congregation…
We need to have an intelligence test to hold public office…half the dimwits in Congress would be out working at the hardware store…instead of making disastrous ill informed decisions.
February 14th, 2007 at 12:29 pmIsn’t this the guy Colbert nailed for humping the 10 commandments and then when asked, he couldn’t name one? Idiot.
Comment by Robert
Yeppers
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/06/15.html
There is a saying for people like this:
The lights are on, but nobody’s home.
February 14th, 2007 at 12:30 pm“Sometimes money trumps peace…”
February 14th, 2007 at 12:30 pmI have a neighbor with a large fence facing the highway running thru town.
He regularly paints significant quotes in large letters on it.
He’s going to love this one.
I’ll donate the paint.
“Rep Westmoreland needs to quit Congress and go back to gigging frogs, shooting squirrels, and popping off firecrackers.
…and nailing his cousins.â€
and running moonshine ‘cross county lines
And attending rallies in white sheets.
-GSD
February 14th, 2007 at 12:32 pmQUIZ Time:
Name the person that wrote this:
“As for the Democrats in America, I tell them:
The people chose you due to your opposition to Bush’s policy in Iraq, but it appears that you are marching with him to the same abyss, and it appears that you will take part with him in the defeat and certain failure, with God’s permission. And the American people shall discover that you are all one side of the same coin of tyranny, criminality and failure; that failure which – by the grace of God – has neutralized the endeavors of the traitors who entered Kabul and Baghdad on the backs of American tanks, and has dashed their hopes as they see the Mujahideen come closer and closer to victory, which has led them to urgently appeal to America for help and implore it to continue to occupy their lands and raise the banners of the Cross over their heads. ”
Funny how that sounds just like your campaign. I’ll give you a hint. The person is one of America’s biggest enemies and one of the Dem’s biggest friends.
February 14th, 2007 at 12:33 pmDuring today’s White House press conference, President Bush was asked by ABC’s Martha Raddatz if he thought Iraq was embroiled in a civil war.
The President replied: “It’s hard for me living in this beautiful White House to give you an assessment, a first hand assessment. I haven’t been there. You have, I haven’t.
This explains why Bush has no clue about the situation in Iraq.
February 14th, 2007 at 12:35 pmYes, Pandora’s box has indeed been opened. Iraq will never be the same, nor will the United States. Whatever I used to feel about this country with regard to allegiance, duty, obligation or respect is an old worn-out thought and one which I find amusing.
February 14th, 2007 at 12:35 pmWow GSD, what a happy wedding picture.
That bride looks like she is stunned and does not know what to do about her situation.
February 14th, 2007 at 12:36 pmUh, prior to the invasion, Iraq was the most urbanized country on Earth, by percentage of population living in cities.
But Arabs are just the Republians’ new “niggers,” so they’ll say anything.
February 14th, 2007 at 12:37 pm.
Comment by Roger_Roger
Roger it sounds like OBL or someone just like him.
February 14th, 2007 at 12:38 pmOMg… this is the guy that Colbert nailed for not knowing the 10 commandments? Too much. Have you noticed that the Republics are avoiding the Colbert Report? Westmoreland… they don’t come any dumber. I understand why he needs the 10 commandments posted in public places because he can’t remember them, let alone follow them. Maybe he needs to read “My Pet Goat” so that he gets a better understanding on herding goats.
February 14th, 2007 at 12:38 pmRoger why would you let the propaganda of the enemy influence your thinking? You are taking the bait.
February 14th, 2007 at 12:39 pmAnother seat for the Dems to pick up.
February 14th, 2007 at 12:41 pmIgnore roger… he’s just trying to divert our conversations and make this thread about his issues.
February 14th, 2007 at 12:42 pmName the person that wanted america to do this:
get sucked into a long war that would bankrupt america
[i'll give you a hint: o.b.l.]
Name the person that did this:
get sucked into a long war that would bankrupt america
[i'll give you a hint: g.w.b.]
who’s emboldening terrorists now?
February 14th, 2007 at 12:44 pmYes, we know that the new Republican Party reads and quotes ad infinitum from Osama Bin Laden and Zawahiri.
They love Bin Laden.
Bin Laden/D’Souza 2008.
-GSD
February 14th, 2007 at 12:47 pm#43 Roger_Roger
QUIZ Time:
Name the person that wrote this:
“As for the Democrats in America, I tell them: …
Was it Carrot Top?
February 14th, 2007 at 12:48 pmroger_rhetoric sez:
Karl Rove.
February 14th, 2007 at 12:48 pmroger dodger likes bait, and he likes propaganda. did you know roger’s starring in a new Comedy Central show?? He’s not the naked trucker, but he is that T-bones guy, double-knit shirt and all…….
February 14th, 2007 at 12:51 pmWhat a f***ing idiot. I can’t understand how anyone with a functioning neuron can be a Republican. How can they withstand the daily stupidity that floods out of the mouths of their party leaders?
February 14th, 2007 at 12:56 pmI don’t blame this dipshit. I blame the dumbasses who voted him into office. WTF is up in Georgia? Remind me why we fought a civil war to get the Southern states back into the union.
February 14th, 2007 at 12:57 pmRoger,
I don’t get the point of your post, but, on the subject of this thread, don’t you think that Westmoreland sounds like an idiot?
February 14th, 2007 at 1:00 pmLet the South secede back to Mexico, Spain and France.
-GSD
February 14th, 2007 at 1:04 pmSo, they were simultaneously sheep and goat herders, terrorist sympathizers, and developers of weapons of mass destruction.
Hmmm. How did they get all those goats & sheep in & out of the Baghdad office district?
I guess this also means that front page New York Times story from 1990 about how Saddam Hussein might have had huge airbases hidden underground where planes would fly out of the sand just like in the comic books was probably wrong.
February 14th, 2007 at 1:16 pmSome people from the other side seem to believe that if we pull out of Iraq, that the Iraqi people are going to go back to tending sheep and herding goats.
What a disrespectul statement from a pompous ass that knows nothing about Iraq. It was one of the most industrialized and modernized nations in the ME. To say that the Iraqis are just a bunch of sheep herders and goat shepards just shows how little the people making major decisions know. Maybe after we kill and bomb some more they will be reduced to nothing but those occupations for survival.
February 14th, 2007 at 1:18 pmWhoda thought, an incredibly ignorant politician from the south.
February 14th, 2007 at 1:18 pmIgnorance of the customs of the people of Iraq is why we’ve been doing so badly up till now.
We couldn’t have done worse if we had annexed the damned country and made them a state. At least then they’d have had something to work from.
WTF is up in Georgia?
Comment by Gus — February 14, 2007 @ 12:57 pm
The same thing that’s wrong in virtually every other state in the country: They think that politics is how you fix things.
February 14th, 2007 at 1:19 pmWestmoreland – ANOTHER FEAR/WAR MONGER! Isn’t there anyone in the Republican Party with any scruples any longer?????? It appears that all they have parading before is is a cadre of crybabies, fear mongers, and third-rate actors. Is there no one in that party with any morality or integrity??
February 14th, 2007 at 1:24 pmWestmoreland is a very typical, pedestrian Rethug bigot as evidenced in how ignorant he is about the culture in Iraq! What a human crock of crap!
February 14th, 2007 at 1:25 pmroger_roger,
We don’t give anymore credibility to Osama bin Laden than we do to Bush. OBL is a CIA asset. Bush is a moron.
February 14th, 2007 at 1:25 pmI find these few days to be quite insightful – offering insights into some of the idiots in Congress we never would have seen unless this was happening…..some are shooting themselves in the foot as to their political future….some are making a$$hole/crybabies of themselves (their careers are in the toilet, too!)….while others are showing how amazingly ignorant they are about our own history (Davy Crockett) as well as the culture of the country we illegally invaded. Their ignorance and lack of intelligence is utterly amazing. Do they really think they look like anything but a huge pack of reichwing idiots? What they are accomplishing is that they are recruiting more people to the Democratic Party as they each take the lectern…..no one with any amount of intelligence would ever want to be affiliated with the likes of this “dog and pony show”! (Or Rat and Scat Show, as the case may be).
February 14th, 2007 at 1:28 pmroger _ roger….if you did your homework you’d know all about the bin laden family and it’s bushiva ties. In fact, Mahfouz bin laden (Osama’s bro) was Dubya’s first business partner in Arbusto Energy…..now that’s a connection the Bush family is keeping hushed up.
February 14th, 2007 at 1:30 pmRepublicans should know better than to be dismissive of sheep.
February 14th, 2007 at 1:32 pmHonest to Christ! These people give me a migraine! There HAS to be a test before people can run for national office. The ignorance displayed by our politicians regarding other countries and their cultures and historical backgrounds is pitiful. Even our President not knowing there was more than one Islamic sect in Iraq was astounding. And he is leading(?) a war in their country. It seems the louder the bloviator, the more ignorant.
February 14th, 2007 at 1:33 pmLet the South secede back to Mexico, Spain and France.
-GSD
Comment by GSD — February 14, 2007 @ 1:04 pm
No deal. After 200 years of inbreeding, now these wonderful lands are full of moronic inbreeds, who aren’t ours. Or, we agree if you keep in the union the wackos.
/Sarcasm off
February 14th, 2007 at 1:35 pmThis week will prove to be the biggest “dog & pony show” Congress has ever seen – with all the GOP “horse’s a$$es” rising to the occasion. What they fail to realize is that every last one of them will be gone when their term expires. That’s guaranteed after these insane performances. Dis-gusting!
February 14th, 2007 at 1:38 pm#58 That’s what I say about BushCo….I don’t blame him half as much as I blame the fools who rigged the electronic voting machines to get him into office….hahahah!
February 14th, 2007 at 1:39 pmSome people from the other side seem to believe that if we pull out of Iraq, that the Iraqi people are going to go back to tending sheep and herding goats.
Wait…. “go back”?
Is that what the Iraqis were doing before the invasion?
I thought they were a crafty, devious, and nefarious, WMD-making, Israel-hating, terrorist-supporting lot.
Interesting how racist twists like Westmoreland usually see “the others” as a formidable threat and as inferior beings -at the same time.
February 14th, 2007 at 1:44 pmI guess Lynn thinks being a farmer would be worse than dying?
The Business of Tragedy
February 14th, 2007 at 1:52 pmIraq’s daily death toll keeps a lot of people working.
#19-From the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
February 14th, 2007 at 1:54 pmdecimate (v) to destroy a large part of
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February 14th, 2007 at 1:56 pmHey, it makes sense. Sheeps can carry a large variety of illness who can pass to the humans:
http://www.healthysheepinfo.com/healthysmrm/sheep.htm
Maybe “weapon” is spelled closely to “sheep” in arabic and the efficient CIA staff miswrote in the NIE Iraq has Weapons of Mass Destruction, when the correct wording in the original stealed docs from the War Ministry of Iraq was Sheeps of Mass Destrucion?
One can only wonder…
Truth is out there… hidden under the wool.
/Sarcasm off
February 14th, 2007 at 1:59 pmBTW, “decimate” comes from the “decimus”, the 1/10 part of the production payed to to the Church by medieval peasants as tax.
February 14th, 2007 at 2:01 pmIn 1967, another Westmoreland proclaimed we were winning in Vietnam. Arthur Schlesinger Jr called that Westy “the most disasterous American general since Custer.” They are probably related.
February 14th, 2007 at 2:04 pmOops wrong thread, sorry.
February 14th, 2007 at 2:17 pmGuess Rethugs have an intimate knowledge of sheep??
February 14th, 2007 at 2:23 pmUncle Ho – Are you familiar with Arthur Schlesinger Jr.’s book from the 70’s THE IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY?? It’s a must read….nostalgic but oh so apropos today. When one considers that was was de rigeur in the 70’s and considered vile and evil is trumped a thousand fold by this administration today….it illustrates the depths to which this country has descended since then.
February 14th, 2007 at 2:25 pmGSD,
Between Mexico, Spain and France, i think only the deranged cowboys in Sinaloa, MX would have them
February 14th, 2007 at 2:44 pmveritas; yup, I have read it, but it was years ago.
February 14th, 2007 at 2:48 pmJust tuned into CSPAN and listening to Rep Randy Forbes (R) from VA and he is comparing WWII Normandy invasion with our Iraq invasion. He wants us to “take that hill” like we did in Normandy. Is there a hill in Iraq that we should know about? This is great! The Republics are talking about everything except the Resolution. The best part is that the Democrats keep redirecting this debate. The Republics are looking stupid, as usual.
February 14th, 2007 at 2:49 pmI’m sure “MR.” Speaker enjoyed your argument, sir. Excuse me while I go laugh out loud.
February 14th, 2007 at 3:03 pmI quote from the incisive Blog “Down With Tyranny!” : “Lynn Westmoreland(R-GA) has one of the worst voting records of anyone in the House of Representatives. He is tied for dead last on every single category of Big Business kiss-up, everything that has to do with destroying public education, everything related to fair taxes, family planning, health care, housing, human rights and civil liberties, impartial justice, fairness for working men and women, and everything to do with war and peace. His voting record is stunning. A former crooked real estate developer he’s among the 25 most extremist right-wing radicals in the entire Congress. Before being elected to Congress in a freak accident in 2004, he had been referred to as a ‘braying jackass’ by the Speaker of Georgia’s House of Representatives.” This blog also refers to this repugnant-repub Georgia cracker as “the dumbest man in the U.S. Congress”–I AM IN TOTAL ACCORD!
February 14th, 2007 at 3:43 pm#33, GSD: WOW! The link you provided to the picture of the wounded Marine and his bride is maybe the most powerful image I have seen yet demonstrating the harsh reality of this unnecessary, ill begotten and ill fated war, thrust upon us by those that seek merely to secure profit for themselves and their business cronies. The dejected look of this once proud young Amercian, horribly disfigured, and his bride, who herself looks as if she is in a state of shock, gave me shivers up and down my spine. This is the TRUE reality of this war, and this picture should be posted all over the blogosphere to remind people of the carnage the neocons have created.
February 14th, 2007 at 3:49 pmWhy do elected Republicans hate our troops so much????
Neo-con values = screw our service members.
February 14th, 2007 at 5:33 pmEvidently, the Bush cultists think this will happen:
Iraqi wife: The Americans are gone. Maybe we can begin to rebuild our house pretty soon.
Iraqi husband: That will have to wait. I’m getting on the next plane to America. It’s payback time!
After all, didn’t the Viet Cong immediately set out east on any boat they could get to bring it to us when we left Southeast Asia?
February 14th, 2007 at 7:11 pmGo back to teabagging desperate clergymen Westmoreland. You at least protect a few altar boys that way.
February 14th, 2007 at 8:48 pmTake heed:
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0214mccainrecall0214.html
A petition in AZ is being taken in AZ to recall a Senator!
Connecticut! Kentucky! Pennsylvania! Mississippi! and others Pay attention!
February 14th, 2007 at 8:51 pmGeorgia, wake up – you’ve got some real yahoos floating in Congress – between this bozo and the lazy bones who whined about working a full week, ay yi yi…your representation is hilarious. Better start asking some hard questions of your candidates. You’re becoming a consistent laughing stock.
February 14th, 2007 at 9:06 pmSome people from the other side seem to believe that if we pull out of Iraq, that the Iraqi people are going to go back to tending sheep and herding goats.
Wait…. “go back�
Is that what the Iraqis were doing before the invasion?
I thought they were a crafty, devious, and nefarious, WMD-making, Israel-hating, terrorist-supporting lot.
Interesting how racist twists like Westmoreland usually see “the others†as a formidable threat and as inferior beings -at the same time.
Comment by Gregor Samsa — February 14, 2007 @ 1:44 pm
Interestingly enough the same WMD-making, Republican Guard die-hards are now so incapable that they need (secular Sunnis that they are) to get all their gear from their Iranian (Shia Islamists who they hate) neighbors…? Has anyone looked at where all the IEDs are going off? In the Sunni triangle or the Shia area? Can you tell me why the Shia militias should trudge all the way to the Sunni triangle, unnoticed, to let off their IEDs? Or you will believe that Saddam’s old guard and any Al Qaeda cadre that may exist, have decided to shelve their blood fued with the Shias just to use their Iranian-supplied IEDs on the Americans?
February 14th, 2007 at 9:46 pmIs he trying to pull the wool over their desert?
February 15th, 2007 at 10:49 amYa know, I bets this CongressCritter hardly eva beats
his niggra’s, or his wife and childrens.
I hear him breakin wind, but can’t figure which
end is a doin the talkin, and which end is doin
the breakin. I thank when they breaks wind,
they calls it Break dancin down Jogeia way.
Just spin and shit will do nicely Congressman,
February 17th, 2007 at 7:08 amyou really don’t have to speak, or put up much
more effort than that. If intelligent people want
your opinion, they just switch on Faux Non News,
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March 31st, 2007 at 5:42 pm