Graham’s Signs Of Progress In Iraq: ‘I Bought Five Rugs For Five Bucks’
Graham’s Signs Of Progress In Iraq: ‘I Bought Five Rugs For Five Bucks’
Today, Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) held a press conference in Iraq. Both McCain and Graham charged that the media are not giving the American people “the full picture of what’s happening here.” As evidence of progress, they spoke of the time they were able to spend in the Bab al-Sharqi market, at which 88 people died in suicide bomber attack on Jan. 22. “We went to the market and were just really warmly welcomed. I bought five rugs for five bucks. And people were engaging,” said Graham.
What McCain and Graham didn’t mention: CNN’s Bob Franken noted today that the senators’ press conference was “held in the very, very, very heavily secured Green Zone, the center city area of Baghdad.” Additionally, the “delegation was accompanied by heavily armed U.S. troops when they were not in the Green Zone, site of the U.S. Embassy and Iraqi government. They traveled in armored military vehicles under heavy guard.”
Watch it:
Just last week, McCain told CNN that President Bush’s escalation is working so well, “Gen. Petraeus goes out there [in Baghdad] almost every day in an unarmed humvee.” CNN’s Iraq correspondent Michael Ware said the reaction to McCain’s claim among military sources was “laughter down the line.”
UPDATE: Newsweek’s Babak Dehghanpisheh writes: “In any case, it didn’t take the insurgents long to send their reply. Less then 30 minutes after McCain wrapped up, a barrage of half a dozen mortars peppered the boundaries of the Green Zone, where the senators held their press conference.”
Transcript:
GRAHAM: But what we’re doing today is different. And to say it’s not different is just really not being fair. We have a fundamentally different approach to our security problems. We’re doing now what we should have done three years ago and there are some signs of success. Two things: we cannot let suicide bombers, homicide bombers, and car bombers set the pace for the 21st century. We cannot let them determine the future of the Iraqi people or the future of the American people, and it’s the resilient people [inaudible.] We went to the market and were just really warmly welcomed. I bought five rugs for five bucks. And people were engaging, and just a few weeks ago, hundreds of people, dozens of people were killed in this same place.
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CNN HOST: And, Bob, with American people going to go along with what they are hearing. You hear McCain and Lindsey Graham saying they went to this market. Lindsey Graham saying I got five rugs for five bucks. Sounds like a great deal, but we see all of the violence at the same time. Are they are going to be able to in a trip like this and come back and report back to their constituents and help the American people see that well, maybe it’s not so bad? A lot of the blame they are putting on the media for not covering things like that market, or something like that. But there’s so much violence. Are the American people really going to start to get the impression that hey, maybe things are going really well in some areas?
BOB FRANKEN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, let’s talk about the whole picture. Today, for instance. The news conference is being held in the very, very, very heavily secured Green Zone, the center city area of Baghdad. Just today, we heard news that a couple of suicide vests had been found in this very fortified area. So, that would really contradict the impressions that many people would feel that Senator McCain is trying to give of increased stability. So it’s a big picture.
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What the f*ck is wrong with these people!?
I am sick to death of them….
April 1st, 2007 at 2:03 pmI can’t get that good of a deal on rugs in Nogales………
April 1st, 2007 at 2:06 pmYou’re a total scumbag, Graham, if that is your idea of sucess…
no wonder the rest of the world despises Americans…
Graham and McCain are liars, liars, liars. I want to see them walk down the street without the military near them. Lets see this. What a laugh!!!!
April 1st, 2007 at 2:06 pmAll the more reason to go into Iran. Persian rugs, I hear, are to die for. Not literally, you understand, but if some American farm boys are willing to die for them, why shouldn’t Graham take advantage?
April 1st, 2007 at 2:08 pmWhat you are listening to from these people is, they are retards. These people don’t understand up from down or left from right.
April 1st, 2007 at 2:08 pmGraham and McCain are frauds. They run their mouths to create this facade that our so-called liberal media reports of not being in lockstep with the Republo-fascists, but as always, when push comes to shove, they’re Republics in the end.
April 1st, 2007 at 2:11 pmThese liars have blood on their hands.
April 1st, 2007 at 2:11 pmGreat! So footage of these clowns walking around unescorted will be on the news soon, right?
April 1st, 2007 at 2:13 pmI just saw this on the AP website, couldn’t believe it. It’s eerie how far these people are removed from reality. Let them stay there in never-neverland and find some decent guy who fixes this mess.
April 1st, 2007 at 2:13 pm#9 I agree why don’t they just stay in Iraq and fight for the American people.
If it is so good over there why is their only 6 hours of electricity plus the water is bad. Why are the Iraqis fleeting from their homes? These two guys are sleeping.
April 1st, 2007 at 2:22 pmSwitch to CNN now: Amanpour Reports
A British Muslim in Britain,”Look, you go into a Muslim country and bomb Muslim civilians. A Muslim gets on a British train and sets off a bomb killing British civilians. What’s the difference?”
April 1st, 2007 at 2:22 pmIt’s going to be interesting when these fools realize that gwb and the neo-clowns don’t care anything about them or their lives. These guys are being played and haven’t a clue.
April 1st, 2007 at 2:25 pm#1 eloquently said. :)
Graham = Bastard. They all are. They are not moral people. Period. They need to be ousted on their fat lying asses. In order for this country to face it’s demons, we have to have the guts to act and remove these people. Then we can really start rebuilding what has been torn apart.
April 1st, 2007 at 2:25 pmWhat a joke.
They can take off thier kevlar helmets in the green zone!!!!
Last week I met a guy who paid $9000 for a taxi ride from the IZ to the airport - 3 suburbans and 9 armed security guys were the reason for the cost.
Iraq used to be the country with the best health and education systems in the middle East, but now it is at the bottom with the Yemen and the Sudan.
And one wonders why the US reputation is in the toilet.
April 1st, 2007 at 2:31 pm“They traveled in armored military vehicles under heavy guard.â€
DAMN!
April 1st, 2007 at 2:35 pm“I bought five rugs for five bucks.”
The Iraqi economy is really booming. 10 billion rugs a day will pay for our troops to stay.
And we thought Halliburton was guilty of war profiteering!
Caption: I am wearing one of the rugs now.
April 1st, 2007 at 2:40 pmsurge is working. Bush is the victor.
Suck on that libs.
April 1st, 2007 at 2:41 pmCaption:
Having just returned from their expedition to Persia,
April 1st, 2007 at 2:45 pmSenator Linsyus Grahamii and his personal blond bodyguard
Gluteus Maxximus appeared in the Forum to declare their love for each other and the good deal they got on home furnishings.
surge is working. Bush is the victor.
Suck on that libs.
Comment by firehead
Ah, the trolls are fresh from church….
April 1st, 2007 at 2:46 pmFive rugs for $5.00 that means the situation is desperately bad.
Because $5.00 does not get you a burger,french fries and a drink any more.
But how much gasoline,military prepartions & man hour these two senators cost the military to buy these $5.00 rugs ?!
April 1st, 2007 at 2:47 pmDidn’t we once have a Republican Party in this country?
April 1st, 2007 at 2:49 pmMcCain and Graham had to lie as the Congress has conditions on the money. By lying to the public maybe again the public would believe it. To bad Americans saw the UN Secretary visit the Green Zone for a speech and was bombed on 50 feet away now that’s what McCain/Graham mean by safe. It’s all about keeping the blank check nothing else. Notice how the world leaders are going on with business without the input from the US. Iran has rights and no ones listening to Bush. Even Israel is meeting with Syria’s President against the orders of George W. Bush. The media has tried to show Bush as a leader while the other countries are showing he’s is really a lam duck President. At lease David Hicks will be welcomed home a hero as he is the example of the Bush Policy. David was innocent with proof yet was kept illegally and tortured by the United States of America.
April 1st, 2007 at 2:51 pmNow Americans are faced with another joke by Thompson of Law and Order putting himself in the race for President. I guess Sam Waterson will be VP. Next Jack Bauer will head the new CTU on terrorism. Let’s hope that Hollywood has enough scripts for Thompson to follow. As after 12 jurors found Libby guilty Thompson said he should be set free because he’s a friend and a good guy. Now that’s the way to judge a criminal as told by Thompson.
“surge is working. Bush is the victor.
Suck on that libs.”
then bush should have no problem agreeing to the march ‘08 date in the bill he’s about to veto.
April 1st, 2007 at 2:52 pmMyabe Graham and McCain bought some of the hookahs with hash in them too, because they are acting totally baked out of their minds.
-GSD
April 1st, 2007 at 2:53 pmfive rugs for five dollars? the surge might not be working, but the c.p.a.-administered flat tax is!!
April 1st, 2007 at 2:53 pmSo what is the reality?
Yes, it is too early to be conclusive. (The following statistics is pulled from icasualities.org web site).
January was before the surge started. February was half-and-half. March is with the surge in place. Lets see what the statistics say.
Iraqi Security Forces and Civilian Deaths
Period Total
Mar-07 1808
Feb-07 1531
Jan-07 1802
Military Fatalities: By Month
Period US UK Other* Total Avg Days
3-2007 80 1 0 81 2.61 31
2-2007 80 3 1 84 3 28
1-2007 83 3 0 86 2.77 31
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This doesn’t look like there has been any impact at all. Either way. But then, why should it. After all it is still stay the course. In other words, this is exactly what we should have expected given continuation of stay the course. “Surge” just kicks the can down the road while another 80 American die each month.
April 1st, 2007 at 2:56 pmstanding down as they stand up? for the lurkers:
“The U.S. military death toll in March, the first full month of the security crackdown, was nearly twice that of the Iraqi army”
April 1st, 2007 at 3:09 pmU.S. March toll nearly twice Iraq forces
BAGHDAD - The U.S. military death toll in March, the first full month of the security crackdown, was nearly twice that of the Iraqi army, which American and Iraqi officials say is taking the leading role in the latest attempt to curb violence in the capital, surrounding cities and Anbar province, according to figures compiled on Saturday.
The Associated Press count of U.S. military deaths for the month was 81, including a soldier who died from non-combat causes Friday.
April 1st, 2007 at 3:11 pmHeavily armored SUVs, eh? So, Baghdad is just like Los Angeles.
April 1st, 2007 at 3:11 pmThe escalation (called a “surge” by those trolls who only know how to talk in perverted sexual terms) is NOT working!
And Graham and McCain are too cowardly to go out of the Green Zone to buy rugs without traveling in armored military vehicles under heavy guard (comprised of BRAVE American troops - who SHOULD be HOME by now - to protect the snivelling, craven, lying senators).
What a joke NeoCons and their obsequious troll/love-slaves are!
April 1st, 2007 at 3:13 pmI ain’t surpriszed by them(McCain & Graham) lying an all:The fact of the matter is that so many of US, Americans are incapable of logical thinking that these 2 idiots( McCain & Graham) think regardless of the enormity of their lies their are suckers who are buying their BS.
April 1st, 2007 at 3:14 pmHow else do you explain that some folks still think of US as the leading Democracy & our elections are covered in corruption.How do you explain the massive poverty in our country and we still call ourselves the richest country ?
Surge isn’t working. Bush is the loser. Suck on that chickenhawktards.
April 1st, 2007 at 3:15 pmThe f**cking arrogance of these stupid Americans…an occupying colonial power, no different than old colonial powers the likes off Britain, France, Belgium.
I just love looking at the death-o-meter of Amercian soldiers as it clicks upward more and more. Too bad its not accelerating faster and faster. When it reaches 58,000 like in Vietnam maybe reality will set in. Go insurgents, you have my support!
April 1st, 2007 at 3:15 pmabby@208
It’s called carpet bombing.
April 1st, 2007 at 3:17 pmHow many of our troops had to be taken away from their duties to escort these pathetic excuses for human beings into the Green Zone?
My brother has been over there since November. There are no trips by the troops into the Green Zone, as it is far too dangerous.
April 1st, 2007 at 3:17 pmThe man is a complete Liar You cannot get 5 rugs for 5 bucks
I have been to Arab countries many times and I never bought a Silk rug made by child labour for less than $2000 bucks for one, even the cheapest wool rugs machine made are $50 ,
that should show just what a load of shite hes speaking
And my next question is what are these guys doing buying cheap Prayer mats then ??? and by spending money on rugs they are supporting terrorism ???? or were they cheap prayer mats ????
April 1st, 2007 at 3:21 pm33 - Jason Baddo
Actually Ive said it many times too , most people in Europe support The Iraqis in Killing occupational forces , even the brits like their own soldiers killed,
everyone prefers David to Goliath
April 1st, 2007 at 3:24 pmFive rugs for five bucks! How long did it take for those weavers to make those rugs and Lindsey Graham thinks it was a great deal to get them for a buck a piece. What a cheapskate! And he claims to be a Christian? Another reason why I detest him. If Graham had been around in the sixties he would have been supporting Bull Connor and his dogs.
April 1st, 2007 at 3:28 pmI wonder if its safe enough for Lindsay to hit all the Baghdad gay bars?
April 1st, 2007 at 3:30 pmI guess that makes Graham a carpetbagger.
April 1st, 2007 at 3:30 pmI can just see Graham now, standing there with his heavily-armed, taxpayer-funded security contingent, haggling over the price of a few rugs. Sounds like an effective bargaining strategy. The taxpayers were well served.
April 1st, 2007 at 3:30 pm#37 Touche. Its more than David v. Goliath though. Its a sovereign nation attempting to rid itself of brutal occupiers. Resistance movements emerge not unlike the IRA, PLO.
April 1st, 2007 at 3:37 pmLets guess the next lies
Mcain - Takes a camel ride from Airport to green Zone
Rice - walks the streets of Baghdad with a mini skirt on
Bush - Has mint tea with Bedouins and smokes a chillium of Nepalese Temple Ballls in Al Anbar
April 1st, 2007 at 3:38 pmThe lies on American TV are unbelievable ?????????????
April 1st, 2007 at 3:42 pmIf That makes sense
Lindsey Graham…
…criminal al Crackkker Bushite spokesperson…
…with an important message…
…”look how easily we can exploit these “Brownies”…
…typical scummy conned’self-serving racist…
…may God destroy you all…
April 1st, 2007 at 3:44 pmAnother question for Senator Shopaholic: how much did you pay for the duty on these rugs? A buck apiece might be what you paid for them, but they’re worth considerably more in the US. Or does being a US senator exempt you from paying duties on war swag? Is the Green Zone duty-free?
April 1st, 2007 at 3:45 pmLet’s see, Huckleberry bought five rugs for five buck during his hour-long shopping spree–accompanied by a heavily armed guard, in several up-armored Humvees, which cost American taxpayers several million dollars, no doubt.
April 1st, 2007 at 3:45 pmWHILE YOU WERE AT IT, Graham, WHY DIDN’T YOU SPEND AN EXTRA FEW BUCKS AND BUY YOURSELF AND THAT PASTY-FACED FLIP-FLOPPING SCHIZOID MADMAN McPAIN SOME CHEESE, YOU DISGUSTING INSIDIOUS, CONNIVING LITTLE RAT-FACED TOADY OF Bushland Uber Allies AND CO-CONSPIRATOR IN THE MILITARY TRIBUNALS AT GITMO? Graham, I HAVE NEVER LIKED YOU SINCE YOUR COMPLICITY IN THE IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS FOR BILL CLINTON—I LONG TO SEE THE DAY WHEN YOU ARE FORCED TO VOTE FOR IMPEACHMENT OF YOUR LOVING CHIMPya AND THE REST OF THE WAR CRIMINALS OF Bushland Uber Allies—NOW THAT IS A SIGHT FOR SORE EYES, Graham, YOU RAT-FACED LYING HYPOCRITE AND repugnant-repub!!!!!
April 1st, 2007 at 3:46 pmDoes Graham has some sort of Senate exemption for bringing in rugs duty-free, or is the Green Zone itself is duty-free, and how many House and Senate members have been making use of this little perk?
April 1st, 2007 at 3:48 pmAy, Raymundo, que calor…
April 1st, 2007 at 3:56 pmToo Bad you can’t buy 5 barrels of oil for 5 Bucks. Shock and Awe coming to a pump near you.!!
April 1st, 2007 at 4:12 pmMeanwhile, speaking of FIVE.
Five Americans killed in attacks today.
That brings the toll to 3,252.
http://icasualties.org/oif/
April 1st, 2007 at 4:12 pmAs the price of gas continues to rise…
…as the misery index continues to rise…
…remember that the RICH oil barons are celebrating…
…and YOUR DUMB A*S Bushite family members, neighbors, co-workers and friends…
…believe they (the oil barons)…
…have a right to USE us…
…they worship mass murderers, thieves, TRAITORS and hypocritical cowards…
…and YOU won’t hold them accountablefor it…
…their Karma is rotten…
…and YOUR tacit consent of their wrongdoing and wrong headedness…
…makes YOURS just as rotten…
April 1st, 2007 at 4:20 pm#36 - Tobey
I have been to that part of the world..I bought rugs also, but a rug for a dollar…that is unheard of,unless Graham was paying for paper rug….
But these people will say anything to paint a rosy picture how things are moving smooth,and on schedule..
Yet reality on the ground speaks differently…
They think by doing that the people will believe it in the long run,but in wars were dead bodies brought home daily from the battle field,
April 1st, 2007 at 4:21 pmpeoples’ patience is running thin.
Iraq victory not possible: Kissinger.
April 1st, 2007 at 4:21 pm.
surge is working. Bush is the victor.
Suck on that libs.
Comment by firehead
The mantra from Bush has been as they stand up, we stand down. That would mean that victory will be accompanied by the troop numbers going down. However, right now we are in the midst of a surge and the numbers are going up. When the troop numbers come down AND Iraq is experiencing relative peace, then you can talk about victory. If you were reasonable, you would have to admit that having to ’surge’ four years into this isn’t a very good sign. (Yes, I know that asking a troll to be reasonable is a lesson in futility.) What leads you to believe that the Iraqis will stand up in Baghdad, or anywhere else in Iraq, after we pull out? BTW, blind faith in what GWB says is not a valid answer.
Since this is really a war about getting cheap oil, we’re also failing at that as gas is now well over $3.00 a gallon.
The only real metric GWB cares about is the profits of the oil companies and contractors like Halliburton. In that regard, the war has been a complete success.
April 1st, 2007 at 4:22 pmFunny… I hear you can go to DC and buy five Republicans for five bucks.
April 1st, 2007 at 4:25 pmSpeaking of Bucks…I hear the Chinese are now holding a TRILLION of em. Better not piss em off.
April 1st, 2007 at 4:30 pmLittle Lindsey is lucky that he didn’t send a Pentagon official or Halliburton employee out to by those rugs for him. If he had, those same five rugs would have cost him $5 million (give or take a million).
LOL
April 1st, 2007 at 4:35 pm5 troops killed today and 1 Brit
April 1st, 2007 at 4:38 pmSpeaking of Bucks…I hear the Chinese are now holding a TRILLION of em. Better not piss em off.
Comment by Badger #56
…too late…
April 1st, 2007 at 4:38 pmThere’s a reason why people like McCain and Graham think they can get away with distortions like this - the press has allowed them to get away with it for four years. Well, not anymore.
It must come as quite a shock to them that the media is so openly contradicting them.
April 1st, 2007 at 4:41 pmIt must have been a junkie carpet dealer that bought five dollars worth of Afghany smack and swapped it for 5 carpets
why do they have to lie
April 1st, 2007 at 4:42 pmLinseed Graham(cracker) = CUA!! Completely Useless American!! He replaced Strom Thurmond, the KKK grand dragon of the Repugniscum party, with his own neocon view of “textiles” in a war torn country!! Linseed says “Can’t they grow some cotten and weave me up a sweater too?”
April 1st, 2007 at 4:43 pmNot to change the topic but I want to know what DNS stands for?
Please anyone. This was on Buzzflash.
Thanks
April 1st, 2007 at 4:46 pmMaybe the carpets were stolen when the previous carpet shop got blown up by insurgents
maybe he had a .45 magnum pointed at his head to accept the five dollars for five carpets
the most likely story is Graham was tripping and still is
April 1st, 2007 at 4:47 pmHuckleberry Graham. You can use those rugs as body bags for the five US troops killed today in your capitalist utopia.
What a frigging disgrace.
-GSD
April 1st, 2007 at 4:48 pmLinseed Graham(cracker) is a HUGH HIMBO!!! Gawd-damnit, Repugniscum men are sooooo, stuuuuupid!!!
April 1st, 2007 at 4:48 pmDNS = Data named source
April 1st, 2007 at 4:50 pmI betcha those rugs are hot!!! So, purchasing stolen goods is OK in Iraq?
April 1st, 2007 at 4:53 pmAll Republicans are repugnant congenital liars*, or may be just in deep denial. These 2 have had people licking their asses so long they think it’s NORMAL to travel as they do! It’s like Marie Antoinette saying “let them eat cake.” BTW this is the same Graham who tried to fuck disabled, retired veterans out of their medical benefits last spring, then did a 180 when all the vet orgs got on his ass over it. At least he won’t be president in 2008 - McCain just might.
* and a hell of a lot of Democrats
April 1st, 2007 at 4:54 pmGraham’s Signs Of Progress In Iraq
what he fails to mention is for the Iraqis
1/ twice as many US troops killed this month than Iraqi soldiers
2/ The last 4 months 356 US troops killed More than any other 4 months consec since the begining of the war
http://www.icasualties.org/oif/
check yourselfs I should be a spin doctor really
April 1st, 2007 at 4:56 pmfive persian rugs
4 Us Soldiers
3 Armoured Humvies
2 helicopters
and a partridge in a pear tree
April 1st, 2007 at 4:59 pmDNS = Data named source
Comment by Tobey Tall — April 1, 2007 @ 4:50 pm
Actually it means Domain Name Server/Source. It refers to a server that takes urls like http://www.pissedsoakedtrolls.com and turns it into (resolves) an IP address like 20.10.5.1 so that the ip packets can travel on numbers yet be user friendly and recognizable, etc. to the user.
April 1st, 2007 at 5:00 pmMust be a big closet to fit 5 rugs eh lindsey?
April 1st, 2007 at 5:04 pmSo in a country desperate for economic development and rebuilding, Graham went looking for ultra-cheap bargains
Bravo Graham, well played indeed
Friggin’ idiots, him and McCain should meet with the Iraqis outside the Green Zone, and preferably lightly armed, with no security detail, just like the Iraqis themselves have to live
April 1st, 2007 at 5:04 pmI stand corrected DNS - and I change bought domains all the time to different DNS hosting packages where the websites are - and I stand corrected thank you
thats the problem being self taught
April 1st, 2007 at 5:06 pmIm glad the truth is finally out about the real reason for escalation….republicans need the extra troops to provide security for thier shopping expeditions. I was wondering where they would spend all the missing war $$$.
April 1st, 2007 at 5:06 pmi doubt it even occurred to him to pay $5 apiece for those rugs…
April 1st, 2007 at 5:07 pmwhat a “generous” gesture that would’ve been… and still an incredibly good deal… and he probably feels superior for having gotten those rugs at such a bargain price… such a putz…
How come Halliburton wasn’t able to find such great bargains?
-GSD
April 1st, 2007 at 5:08 pmDNS - can point to IP numbers BUT not ideal and often dont work properly
a Typical DNS would be
NS1.OPENHOSTS.CO.UK and
NS2.OPENHOSTS.CO.UK (backup names server)
the NS = Named server
April 1st, 2007 at 5:09 pmMore BS from the reich winged propaganda lier’s and thieves….I say stop the war’s now and send all the troop’s home in one huge sweep…
Send out healing thought’s for RUCerious and all in need of them, also, don’t forget to tell some one you love them today and every day and please do something for our country and the world….Blessings all
April 1st, 2007 at 5:11 pm[…] Watch Video […]
April 1st, 2007 at 5:12 pmBAGHDAD - After a heavily guarded trip to a Baghdad market, Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record) insisted Sunday that a U.S.-Iraqi security crackdown in the capital was working and said Americans lacked a “full picture” of the progress. The U.S. military later reported six soldiers were killed in roadside bombings southwest of Baghdad.
It would appear that Sen. McCain lacks the “full picture” of the continued dying of American soldiers in Iraq.
April 1st, 2007 at 5:13 pm#77 Because in a NO BID Contract….money is NO object. I say we should fully fund the troops, and fully DEFUND the private contractors like Blackwater.
April 1st, 2007 at 5:15 pmhe should sell the carpets in New York for $500 and send the money to the carpet dealer so he can afford fresh water and food for his family instead of having to hang around Markets that are dangerous places for Iraqis
April 1st, 2007 at 5:15 pmPneumonics change over time. URL was initially Uniform Source Label. It became Uniform Sorce Locator. It was later migrated to URI or Uniform Source Identifier. That is the way the world goes on.
April 1st, 2007 at 5:18 pmDUHmerica continues to…
…sleep with frogs…
April 1st, 2007 at 5:19 pmSharon - you forgot to instruct us all to plant a tree….and donate energy offsets so Al Gore won’t feel so guilty….
April 1st, 2007 at 5:19 pmNews flash
Carpet dealer in Iraq Beheaded
April 1st, 2007 at 5:19 pmURL Uniform ReSorce Locator
April 1st, 2007 at 5:22 pmSharon - you forgot to instruct us all to plant a tree….and donate energy offsets so Al Gore won’t feel so guilty….
Comment by valiant venus
Don’t disrespect Sharon, you worthless cow.
If you tried to give as much love as Sharon has in her little finger, you’d be a halfway decent human.
April 1st, 2007 at 5:24 pmthats the problem being self taught
Comment by Tobey Tall — April 1, 2007 @ 5:06 pm
I am completely self taught in computers and I am these days (and for 20+ years) a software engineer writing some of the most cutting edge Web2.0 software around. There is no shame!!! No apologies needed!!! I was just trying to help…
April 1st, 2007 at 5:25 pmScores of civilians have been killed as battles between anti-government fighters and Ethiopian troops in Somalia entered a fourth day.
Bush starts another war in Somalia
the world cant wait ANY LONGER
April 1st, 2007 at 5:28 pmRaven (comment #2) is right. Over at Anrybear, I suggest Lindsey Graham has confused a fire sale with a thriving market.
April 1st, 2007 at 5:28 pmTobey, I stand correct. Every ‘Source’ in my post should read ‘Resource’. Makes me wonder whether I am becoming more like Jake.
April 1st, 2007 at 5:29 pmleave it to a queen to sniff out a home decor bargain
April 1st, 2007 at 5:30 pmthen remember when changing DNS settings to use ( example of one I use)
NS1.OPENHOSTS.CO.UK
NS2.OPENHOSTS.CO.UK
and not an IP number …………..unless you have a staitic IP running from Home using IIS
April 1st, 2007 at 5:31 pm“The congressmen, who wore body armor during their hourlong shopping excursion…”
That kind of says it all, doesn’t it?
April 1st, 2007 at 5:32 pmIf you tried to give as much love as Sharon has in her little finger, you’d be a halfway decent human.
Comment by Zooey #88
Zooey,
…do you always talk to viruses?
…if so, it’s a complete waste of time…
…they only seek to invade (and destroy) your normal cells…
…and replicate themselves…
April 1st, 2007 at 5:33 pmDemented liars - both of them! Sickos! More propaganda from idiots whose egos will not allow them to admit their fallability. Get over it, fools. The american people KNOW precisely what’s going on there and how “secure+++” you were! Get a real life!
April 1st, 2007 at 5:33 pmThe people have learned the hard way over the past months that they simply cannot trust ANY Republicscum.
April 1st, 2007 at 5:34 pmThank’s Lady Z, great weather here for the moment…..Hope you are having a blessed day…
MA..Screw you and the big ugly elephant you rode in on……BTW ..The rupub. cabal just sent out a recall via the internet to all lackies to please pick up your extracted head’s that were removed from heir bush ass…..Blessings
April 1st, 2007 at 5:36 pmBNS your right i get the idea
US troops are using silk carpets as protection from Insurgent arrows like Gengis Khan used to
cheap body armour
April 1st, 2007 at 5:36 pmMay be Senator Graham & McCain will start themselves a new profitable business …importing Iraqi carpets.
Remember what Senator C. Hagel told them two months ago…”Go sell shoes….” May be they’ll get in the carpet business instead…
April 1st, 2007 at 5:37 pmNo matter how some ridiculously transparent “candidate” tries to spin this war, it’s not going to change the reality of it all - it was a mistake from the beginning, is still a horrible mistake right now, and will continue to be a mistake as long as we’re there.
McCain’s just trying to salvage the remnants of his tanking campaign, that’s all.
April 1st, 2007 at 5:39 pmHold on a minute its april fools day
April 1st, 2007 at 5:40 pmJust across the internet new’s…V.V. other wise known as M.A. has been granted special dispensation from dictator bush to leave her head up his butt, since she is a slow learner..All 22 year old anexexics have this special for the day…….April fool’s to the fool’s…..
Impeach, jail and attach all asset’s from the republican wrong doewers..End the war’s now….Blessings all
April 1st, 2007 at 5:46 pmThis was all an April Fool’s stunt–McCain and Graham were really reporting from “Baghdad, Texas.”
April 1st, 2007 at 5:52 pmM.A. has been granted special dispensation from dictator bush to leave her head up his butt…
Comment by Sharon #103
hahahahahahahaha!!!
Sharon,
It’s called a lifetime membership…
April 1st, 2007 at 5:56 pmWell, it’s cheaper than a colonoscopy!
April 1st, 2007 at 5:58 pmGraham better be careful. Those rugs may have been contaminated with smallpox and given to the heathens.
April 1st, 2007 at 5:59 pmHey if a bunch of McCain and Graham showed up at my door in armored humvees surrounded by armed guards I’d let them have my house for $5. I don’t think I’d be too happy about it though.
April 1st, 2007 at 6:03 pmApparently TP is eating posts again.
My questions to Graham are:
1. Did he pay import duties on the rugs — or is it duty-free in the Green Zone?
2. What would have been the fair-market value of these rugs; they certainly are worth significantly more in the US than five bucks.
3. Is this some sort of congressional perk, how long has it been going on, and what other members of congress have taken advantage of it? This smells.
April 1st, 2007 at 6:05 pm[…] Watch now on Think Progress: […]
April 1st, 2007 at 6:07 pmI want to know how much the taxpayers will have to pay to bring $5.00 worth of rugs back to the US. My guess, thousands!! Security, customs, etc.
April 1st, 2007 at 6:09 pmWell, it’s cheaper than a colonoscopy!
Comment by Briseadh_na_faire
But the light attached to the forehead can be problematic….
April 1st, 2007 at 6:11 pmMA..Screw you and the big ugly elephant you rode in on
Comment by Sharon — April 1, 2007 @ 5:36 pm
Hate to correct you Sharon but MA or VV is the big ugly elephant. And that big dark cloud hanging over her, that’s all the bad karma she’s accumulated.
April 1st, 2007 at 6:12 pmIt doesn’t really matter what McCain does. His goose is cooked.
April 1st, 2007 at 6:13 pmWell…today at Wal-Mart I bought, among other things, 2 family-size boxes of Honey Bunches of Oats for $5 and 2 boxes of Pillsbury brownies for $2.
What’s your f*ckin’ point, Lindsey?
April 1st, 2007 at 6:21 pmSo, McCai and Graham are the new Comical Ali?
April 1st, 2007 at 6:21 pmWhat McCain and Graham didn’t mention: CNN’s Bob Franken noted today that the senators’ press conference was “held in the very, very, very heavily secured Green Zone, the center city area of Baghdad.†Additionally, the “delegation was accompanied by heavily armed U.S. troops when they were not in the Green Zone, site of the U.S. Embassy and Iraqi government. They traveled in armored military vehicles under heavy guard.â€
Of course, when McCain gets back stateside, he’ll tell us that he and Lindsey insisted they didn’t need a heavily armored escort, but due to the fact that they were members of the U.S. government, our military insisted on providing the best protection available…you know, “just in case.”
April 1st, 2007 at 6:24 pmLove you all, you are so funny….Blessings
April 1st, 2007 at 6:28 pmWhat does anyone care about Graham’s “rug deal” when 88 people were killed there just weeks ago? These two thugs are not only insensitive but amoral as well….stooping to comparing “rug deals” to 7 dozen+ human beings being killed. These two clearly have NO SOUL whatsoever…because they’ve already sold it to the heel-clicking, reichwing administration, that’s why.
April 1st, 2007 at 6:36 pmLove you all, you are so funny….Blessings
Comment by Sharon — April 1, 2007 @ 6:28 pm
Right back at ya, darlin’.
April 1st, 2007 at 6:37 pmMore National Securilty brought to us from the Republic Party and their boy Bush:
Inspector Lists Computers With Atomic Secrets as Missing
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By MATTHEW L. WALD
Published: April 1, 2007
WASHINGTON, March 30 — The office in charge of protecting American technical secrets about nuclear weapons from foreign spies is missing 20 desktop computers, at least 14 of which have been used for classified information, the Energy Department inspector general reported on Friday.
This is the 13th time in a little over four years that an audit has found that the department, whose national laboratories and factories do most of the work in designing and building nuclear warheads, has lost control over computers used in working on the bombs.
April 1st, 2007 at 6:37 pmlove you too Sharon, keep up the good works.
April 1st, 2007 at 6:38 pmBob Franken’s very graphic description of a “very, very, very, very secure, heavily guarded, etc.” while these two bobbleheads think they’re pulling something over on us was incredible. Graham and McInsane think they’re spinning one piece of propaganda while Franken’s totally discrediting their spin and they haven’t a clue that he’s doing it. Priceless, indeed.
April 1st, 2007 at 6:39 pmLove you all, you are so funny….Blessings
Comment by Sharon
I love you, Sharon. (((hugs)))
April 1st, 2007 at 6:41 pmSomething is seriously wrong with Graham talking about buying rugs for cheap when he helped destroy the country and it’s economy.
April 1st, 2007 at 6:42 pmAh, the trolls are fresh from church….
Comment by Zooey
April 1st, 2007 at 6:44 pmThere is nothing fresh about these trolls.:~(
Graham’s on the GOP poison juice, big time. Otherwise, he’s insane to be speaking of buying rugs when people are getting killed behind him and bullets are “peppering the area where they spoke”. Who’s he kidding?
Another topic: Hear that the WH has rejected the “compromise deal” about Rove, Miers testifying now. I wouldn’t have even given him an opportunity to compromise. We need to press Congress to let him know that he will not win this pissing contest of his and the line he’s drawn in the sand against this democracy and the american people will not be tolerated. The american people say this to Mr. Bush: ‘NO DEAL’!
It’s public testimony, under oath, and with full transcripts or impeachment proceedings will begin! That’s the deal.
April 1st, 2007 at 6:47 pmYou guys play with your acronyms all you want but there is one that will not change as long as Bushco is around. BS is Bull Sheet any way they cut, bend, twist, spin, turn. obfuscate, tergiversate, prevaricate, muddle, complicate, adumbrate, obtenebrate, or nubilate it.
April 1st, 2007 at 6:51 pmWhat, five rugs for five bucks. Wow, how generous of them. That’s going to go a long way to help the Iraqi’s rebuild their economy. These guys are pathetic.
April 1st, 2007 at 6:59 pmGraham to journalists: ‘Not only the carpet was cheap, the IRaki told me that it is also ‘Foot proof’,
A journalist quickly asked him: “Mr Graham…what does that mean” ?!!
Senator Graham:”That means nobody can pull it from under you feet, It is written on it in Arabic…got that”.
April 1st, 2007 at 6:59 pmBS is Bull Sheet any way they cut, bend, twist, spin, turn. obfuscate, tergiversate, prevaricate, muddle, complicate, adumbrate, obtenebrate, or nubilate it.
Comment by Clyde the Ripper
Cool! New words…. :)
April 1st, 2007 at 7:00 pmGraham to a journalist” I thought of giving one of these carpets to Barbara Bush”
Journalist:”Why didn’t you”??
Graham “I don’t want her to accuse me of being ‘carpet bagger’…ha ha ..one time Barbara called me asking for a Yellow cake”
April 1st, 2007 at 7:04 pmGraham to journalists:” When we can buy a carpet in Baghdad for .50 cents,that means victory is at hand finally”…
April 1st, 2007 at 7:05 pmThank you all again..
Coffins, lest we forget besides the madness you mentioned this administration has lost more than once the S.S record’s and all militay record’s with the same type of theft’s ….Total unaccountability and no oversight…One more thing that is terribley frightning all our power plant’s and water resovors are still wide open with no security….One thimble full of some poisons and entire states of our population could be wiped out…But what the hell, some big shot’s in the right place at the right time when the palletts were droped did make out very well….Sarc/off
I am leaving early, you all don’t play nicely….Our best are caught in a terrible tragedy I choose to end if at all possible…SpecialBlessings to all that need them, I’m thinking of you today RUCerious…
April 1st, 2007 at 7:06 pm#88 - “Don’t disrespect Sharon, you worthless cow.
If you tried to give as much love as Sharon has in her little finger, you’d be a halfway decent human.” Comment by Zooey
“Don’t Disrespect Sharon”? Have you picked up your syntax from ZooJr.s latest “musical” favourite? I was merely helping Sharon spread more of her usual joy and sunshine …..when she isn’t cursing anyone with more than two nickels to rub together or people with whom she politically disagrees.
April 1st, 2007 at 7:07 pmsenator leahys 63rd birthday was yesterday
send him some wishes
senator_leahy@leahy.senate.gov
for those that say he had a poor showing on meet the press keep in mind how hard the guys been working, it was his birthday last night and then he has to get up the next morning on a Sunday and talk to Tim Russert. If the guy didnt feel like driving it home and let Tim do some journalism then I say he gets that right being the man thats cleaning house and all. Besides most americans already get it and Hatch just made himself look frustrated while leahy thankd him for a birthday card.
April 1st, 2007 at 7:09 pmJournalist to Graham: “whom are you buying these carpets for” in the US?
Graham: “The people I bought them for were fired by Gonzalez”.
April 1st, 2007 at 7:12 pm“What does anyone care about Graham’s “rug deal†when 88 people were killed there just weeks ago? …”
Comment by veritas
Since when is 1/22/07 “two weeks” ago?? (Let me guess - you aced “New Math”) I think the “surge” started after Jan 22.
April 1st, 2007 at 7:17 pm# 133: valiant venus, you worthless stinking troll:
” I was merely helping Sharon …”
Right, and Graham and McCain were holding your hand as they walked safely outside the Green Zone buying rugs. Don’t I wish!
UNDER THE BRIDGE, NASTY TROLL!!!
April 1st, 2007 at 7:20 pm5$’s? yea, but what was the taxpayer’s pricetag for 100 armed soldiers, 3 circling Blackhawk helicopters and the private security?
April 1st, 2007 at 7:22 pm[…] Think Progress » Graham’s Signs Of Progress In Iraq: ‘I Bought Five Rugs For Five Bucks’ […]
April 1st, 2007 at 7:32 pmOh venal ventricle, your hot exhalations of sulpherous spew warm my orb even out here nigh the Kuiper Belt… say you will swing your orbit close to mine that we might produce bodily ejecta…………
April 1st, 2007 at 7:35 pm“Don’t Disrespect Sharon� Have you picked up your syntax from ZooJr.s latest “musical†favourite? I was merely helping Sharon spread more of her usual joy and sunshine …..when she isn’t cursing anyone with more than two nickels to rub together or people with whom she politically disagrees.
Comment by valiant venus
Darling, do get something to eat. Your mind is more fuzzy than ever. “Disrespect” is a word in the English language. Look it up. Maybe no one has taught you the concept of respect, and it’s opposite: disrespect.
Sharon will never need help from someone as barren and morally bankrupt as you, Hagfish.
Go have a smoke…
April 1st, 2007 at 7:38 pm[…] Nightly News provided further details about McCain’s one-hour guided tour was accompanied by “100 American soldiers, with […]
April 1st, 2007 at 7:57 pm5 rugs for 5 bucks?
Wow.
We’ll we all know what good little rug makers those Arabs are, huh?
April 1st, 2007 at 8:03 pmSo I guess if we ever have to invade India, according to the Doublemint Twins we can all expect to be able to purchase 5 baskets for 5 dollars?
:|
April 1st, 2007 at 8:04 pmThere is not one persone with (R) after their names who support this lying son of a bitch, Dubya, who knows the difference between right and wrong and they wouldn’t know the truth if it hit them between the eyes like a wet sack of shit. The GOP is made up of delusional liars, crooks, and cowards.
April 1st, 2007 at 8:05 pmThousands of dead Americans, hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqi’s, a country laid in ruin, millions displaced, 700 Billion dollars wasted, and these two chuckleheads are saying its worth it because they’ve got their own Costco?
:|
Gimme a break.
April 1st, 2007 at 8:11 pm#129 Zooey
Thanks.
I particularly liked adumbrate. It just sounds like bushco and means to foreshadow vaguely with a sketchy representation or outline. For the trolls–to lie by omission and inference: Bull Sheet.
April 1st, 2007 at 8:13 pmYou know maybe the Iraqis sold Graham some Small-Pox infested rugs, like we used to do with the American Indians? When he breaks out in sores all over his body, then paying 5 bucks for 5 rugs was NOT a deal.
April 1st, 2007 at 8:50 pmClyde –
In other words, adumbrate means exactly what it sounds like. I love those kinds of words. :-)
April 1st, 2007 at 8:52 pmThe crab-lice crawling all over the rugs were not noticed by Graham > lol.
April 1st, 2007 at 8:53 pm[…] at Think Progress reveals more truth than perhaps McCain intended. NBC’s Nightly News provided further details about McCain’s one-hour guided tour. He was accompanied by “100 American soldiers, with three […]
April 1st, 2007 at 9:16 pmWhat a dimwit Graham is. For him to continue to perpetrate this crap, in the face of loss lives is unthinkable.
April 1st, 2007 at 9:30 pmWell, 5 rugs for $5 bucks…did he pay a duty tax and/or import tax or claim the items as he flew back in a tax payer helicopter, plane, and all paid by us, the stupid American TAX payer!!!
April 1st, 2007 at 10:08 pmHe traveled all the way to Iraq to a market place to show that he could pay some locals so little money so as to keep them in poverty?
5 dollars; 5 rugs. Wow, let’s all don flak jackets and fly to Iraq!!!! Much better deal than Mexico.
Wonder if he tried to pick up any cheap RFG’s while he was there.
Honestly…..what a clown.
April 1st, 2007 at 10:23 pmI hope that when he gets them home, the rugs all fade.
“What a Maroooooooon!” - BB
April 1st, 2007 at 10:28 pmYou know, if the Iraqi locals can’t make more than a dollar a rug, they really should follow the example of Afghanistan and stop selling rugs…….
raise poppies and sell opium.
April 1st, 2007 at 10:32 pmAt least that way they may see some money from the West. Otherwise damned contractors get it all (Halliburton, KBR, etc.)
April 1st, 2007 at 10:34 pmIf McCain got killed in that news conference, I could see the headlines. “American Senator killed in peaceful, democratic Iraq”
April 1st, 2007 at 10:51 pm“What does anyone care about Graham’s “rug deal†when 88 people were killed there just weeks ago? …â€
Comment by veritas
Since when is 1/22/07 “two weeks†ago?? (Let me guess - you aced “New Mathâ€) I think the “surge†started after Jan 22.
Comment by valiant venus — April 1, 2007 @ 7:17 pm
You think “Just weeks” = “Two weeks”?
We can add *illiterate* to the litany of trailer trash traits you exhibit - Little Anorexic Twit!!! BAHAHA, you’re as dumb as a bag of sh*t aren’t you? You’re Ann Coulter’s discarded bag of sh*t!!! That explains the smell when you arrive!! BAHAHAAHAA
April 1st, 2007 at 10:55 pmI am leaving early, you all don’t play nicely….Our best are caught in a terrible tragedy I choose to end if at all possible…SpecialBlessings to all that need them, I’m thinking of you today RUCerious… Comment by Sharon — April 1, 2007 @ 7:06 pm
Our “best”? That explains why a useless bag of bones and sh*t like you isn’t there!
April 1st, 2007 at 10:56 pmOur “best� That explains why a useless bag of bones and sh*t like you isn’t there!
Comment by ValiantVenusGrewFromUranus
Excuse me VVGFU, but is there a reason why you’re attacking Sharon? That’s really sh*tty of you.
April 1st, 2007 at 11:02 pm“…warmly welcomed.”
They came surrounded by 100 soldiers and with helicopters and jets above with enough explosions to transform the whole market into one big carpet.
Facing these kind of guestsm I would have been hospitable too.
April 1st, 2007 at 11:08 pmI was merely helping Sharon spread more of her usual joy and sunshine …..when she isn’t cursing anyone with more than two nickels to rub together or people with whom she politically disagrees.
Comment by valiant venus
And since when have you ever had a kind word about anyone with whom you politically disagree, Mighty Hypocrite?
April 1st, 2007 at 11:16 pmPsst. What you call “humour” stinks.
[…] Transcript: (more…) […]
April 1st, 2007 at 11:17 pm[…] Nightly News provided further details about McCain’s one-hour guided tour. He was accompanied by “100 American soldiers, with […]
April 1st, 2007 at 11:17 pm“And since when have you ever had a kind word about anyone with whom you politically disagree, Mighty Hypocrite?” Comment by Lora
Oh, good - - Lora with her lightening quick humour is here to entertain the masses!! Actually Lora, half of my neighbours are Dems and most of them are very nice people - misguided and wracked with guilt, but VERY nice! I have many kind words for them - but then again, they haven’t fallen off the edge like so many of your friends here at TP……
April 2nd, 2007 at 12:14 am[…] the complete picture? McCain says the American people aren’t seeing it in Iraq even as “three Blackhawk helicopters, and two Apache gunships overhead” him. […]
April 2nd, 2007 at 12:15 am“Excuse me VVGFU, but is there a reason why you’re attacking Sharon? That’s really sh*tty of you.” Comment by Zooey
No, Z, that’s our little friends’ dyslexia showing up. He was confused between the names “valiant venus” and “Blessings…Sharon”….
April 2nd, 2007 at 12:17 amNo, Z, that’s our little friends’ dyslexia showing up. He was confused between the names “valiant venus†and “Blessings…Sharonâ€â€¦.
Comment by valiant venus
Is this you being “helpful,” slimey Hagfish? Don’t bother.
April 2nd, 2007 at 12:29 amThese losers don’t understand that their very statement proves that Iraq has one f*cked up economy. They are in big trouble, even if they weren’t being killed hundreds at a time.
April 2nd, 2007 at 12:31 am#161 wracked with guilt
You should try it some time, sociopath.
April 2nd, 2007 at 12:32 am#
These losers don’t understand that their very statement proves that Iraq has one f*cked up economy. They are in big trouble, even if they weren’t being killed hundreds at a time.
Comment by JPark — April 2, 2007 @ 12:31 am
My thoughts, too….either they are so desperate for dollars, they are discounting their products to almost “0″ value or Graham screwed the shopkeeper who was probably scared shitless dealing with a US VIP and his entourage of 100 soldiers backed up with helicopters. He’d have probably given Lindsey the rugs if he had asked for them. You’d think that he might have paid double the market price, just as a show of goodwill….but then, you remember, he’s a Republican. Why pay for something when you can almost steal it? I’ll bet the thought never entered his mind.
April 2nd, 2007 at 1:02 amLora with her lightening quick humour is here to entertain the masses!! Actually Lora, half of my neighbours are Dems and most of them are very nice people - misguided and wracked with guilt, but VERY nice! I have many kind words for them - but then again, they haven’t fallen off the edge like so many of your friends here at TP……
Comment by vermin venus
I am not here to entertain the masses, unlike you, who always tries and always flops badly. Moreover, I am not wracked with guilt nor are most–if not all–of my Dem friends, which is why I suppose you have trouble with us. That’s to say, you probably like the guilt-wracked ones because you can feel superior to them. However, a superiority complex is often just the flip side of an inferiority complex, and it’s easy to see why you might feel inferior. And I suppose you find about 70% of Americans these days “misguided.”
April 2nd, 2007 at 1:11 amToodles, Bush poodle (with my sincere apologies to any canine that might feel offended)
[…] was backed up by fellow Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who praised the work ethic of 7-eleven […]
April 2nd, 2007 at 1:19 amBystander > Lindsey Graham is so proud of swindling the Iraqi rug merchant that he bragged about it to the press. The rug seller probably tried to just give him the rugs to get rid of him, so Graham gave him 5 bucks. The voters in Graham’s state have been shamed by him. He and McCain must be forced to resign in disgrace from the Senate ASAP.
April 2nd, 2007 at 1:28 am