One Year Later, Market Where McCain Strolled ‘Freely’ Is Controlled By Sadr, Too Unsafe For Americans To Visit
One Year Later, Market Where McCain Strolled ‘Freely’ Is Controlled By Sadr, Too Unsafe For Americans To Visit
On April 1, 2007, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) strolled through the open-air Shorja market in Baghdad in an effort to prove that Americans are “not getting the full picture” of what’s going on in Iraq. In a press conference after his Baghdad tour, McCain told a reporter that his visit to the market was proof that people could “walk freely” in parts of Baghdad.
What McCain failed to mention was that he was accompanied by “100 American soldiers, with three Blackhawk helicopters, and two Apache gunships overhead.” He also appeared to be wearing a bulletproof vest during his visit.
Since that trip, McCain has claimed that the situation in Iraq has improved even more. A few months ago, McCain claimed that “we’ve succeeded militarily” in Iraq. Things, of course, are going so well, that he wants to keep U.S. troops there for at least 100 years.
McCain is now back in Iraq for a “surprise visit with Iraqi and American diplomatic and military leaders.” He is joined by fellow Iraq war defenders Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC). But it’s unlikely they will be visiting the Shorja market again. Today, CNN reported that they tried to visit the Shorja market, but it was too unsafe and they were unable to go:
We got close to that marketplace today, Jim, but our own security advisers here in Iraq did not want us to go there. They didn’t believe it was safe for an American to be in that area. We were in a thriving marketplace nearby.
But when you show up, the local Iraqis, while it is clear security is better on the street — it is clear there are more markets open, just the traffic jams alone tell you that things are better on the streets of Baghdad — it’s also a very sensitive potential neighborhoods.
That one marketplace, as a matter of fact, you do see Iraqi police, you do see the Iraqi army, but in truth, that area is controlled by the radical cleric Moqtada al Sadr’s Mahdi army.
Watch it:
Civilian deaths per day in Iraq are up to 39 from a low of 20 last January, while at the same time, there has been “a sharp increase in attacks resulting in the deaths of U.S. soldiers.” Twelve Americans were killed last week over a period of four days, “bringing the overall U.S. military death toll since the start of the war near 4,000.”
The Associated Press recently interviewed Iraqis who “said they were not necessarily changing their daily routines,” but “the growing bloodshed was present in their minds, clouding what had until recently been a more hopeful time.”
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Well now, how’s that surge working for ya, McSurgie?
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March 16th, 2008 at 3:54 pmBest occupation ever!!
March 16th, 2008 at 3:56 pm/sarc
McCain to UK: Let’s just keep Afghanistan
Ha ha ha ha the mans a joke
March 16th, 2008 at 3:58 pmDid you find some new rugs McCain? Why don’t you get one for your head. Your brain is fried.
March 16th, 2008 at 3:58 pmAlthough I have to agree with McCain that Americans are not getting the full picture of what’s going on in Iraq: The situation is probably worse than we have been lead to believe, and than that the media is allowed to report -assuming they’re even allowed outside the Green Zone to begin with.
March 16th, 2008 at 3:58 pmContrary to what McNut says, Americans are indeed “Getting the Full Picture.” And it is not a pretty site to say the least. He and the rest of the Repugs are so detached from reality that it is amazing.
March 16th, 2008 at 3:59 pmHaving said that, McCain is still a prevaricating old fool.
March 16th, 2008 at 3:59 pmWatch Live: Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupations
http://ivaw.org/ws_live.html
Bang out of order
March 16th, 2008 at 4:00 pmHere’s a glimpse of some of the troop activities in Iraq.
March 16th, 2008 at 4:02 pmhttp://www.michaelmoore.com/ words/ latestnews/ index.php?id=11101
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O.K. to be fair.
The surge, put in place so as to bring about a political solution/resolution isn’t really working. If you watch the C.HEAR.SPEAK.NO.NEWS you’ll be educated on how the surge IS working because Sadr’s army is not acting up, cars are filling the streets and the markets, far too dangerous for an actual reporter to visit, are alive and well. What they don’t tell the U.S. Sheeple on the C.HEAR.SPEAK.NO.NEWS is that Sadr’s army is being bought off by the Sheeple’s tax dollars hard at work keeping an illegal occupation alive and well.
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March 16th, 2008 at 4:05 pmWho will bet against those three goobers coming back to support the wasting of yet more lives and treasure in the qWagmire that is Iraq?
March 16th, 2008 at 4:08 pmAnd what is Sadr doing with all our money? Probably buying tons or weapons (from us more than likely) to be used at a later date to justify our staying in Iraq much longer still. Sadr will be paid handsomely for that too.
March 16th, 2008 at 4:09 pmLike a pop test, al Sadr’s Mahdi army must not have gotten the memo about McCain’s surprise pop-in.
March 16th, 2008 at 4:13 pmMeaning..no more cheap $5.00 rugs from that Souk. ‘Souk’ is an Arabic word for market.
March 16th, 2008 at 4:17 pmIs this story being carried on FoxNews as well? And, if so, how are they presented the information about that market? What? They’re not? They’re not mentioning it at all?
March 16th, 2008 at 4:18 pmMcCain souks!
March 16th, 2008 at 4:19 pm.
With the advent of the sixth year of the US occupation, AlJazeera looks at Iraq’s future.
Pt. 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvVeCCu0-74
Pt. 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GltMo018Roc
What the US C.HEAR.SPEAK.NO.NEWS propaganda stations won’t fairly balance a true representation of, an honest discussion.
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March 16th, 2008 at 4:43 pmWhen Irans president went to Iraq he rode from the airport in an unarmored civilian car and his visit was announced far in advance.McCain snuck in as usual and has an army of guards on the ground and in the air as well.This says volumes about how the “Surge” has gone and how much we are supposedly loved by the Iraqi people.Just another photo-op for the Republicans mentally shallow candidate.
March 16th, 2008 at 4:44 pmFrom John Burns, in today’s NY Times: This is a veteran Iraq reporter’s FIVE YEAR Assessment.
In truth, what the majority produced was less a vote for democracy than a vote for a once-and-for-all, permanent transfer of power, from the Sunni minority that ruled in Iraq for centuries, to an impatient, and deeply wounded, if not outright vengeful, Shiite majority.
What has followed has been predictable. For close to two years, the Shiite religious parties that won the December 2005 election have clung tenaciously to their new-found power, and the Sunni parties, mostly unreconciled to an Iraq ruled by Shiites, have maneuvered in ways intended to keep open the possibility, ultimately, of a Sunni restoration. NOTHING, in short, HAS BEEN STETTLED.
March 16th, 2008 at 4:47 pmWell at least it was a good opportunity for McCain to bond with his running mate, Lieberman.
March 16th, 2008 at 4:49 pmJust in time for the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion, presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain made an unannounced visit to Iraq.
Unfortunately for McCain, this week’s looming anniversary highlights that at almost every turn, John McCain has been disastrously wrong about Iraq.
For the details, see:
March 16th, 2008 at 4:49 pm“Forever Wrong: Five Years of John McCain on Iraq.”
The elections in America this year will prove exactly without no shadow of doubt how many poeple are MAD by supporting the Republicans
thats going to be interesting
March 16th, 2008 at 4:57 pmHundreds of veterans are testifying against war crimes this weekend in Washington, DC.
March 16th, 2008 at 5:02 pmFunny enough Shayne but I don’t think mcCain is running his own campaign any longer and I don’t think that those who are will allow what you propose to happen…..call me crazy but more likely lieberman’s hopes would be for a state dept position don’t you think?
In any event, dream on losers as the only thing that matters is who Mr Obama picks for his vp
March 16th, 2008 at 5:08 pmAmerica has two choices
1. Get Bush to publicly apologize to Iraq and pay damages
2. put Bush etc in Jail for the war crimes commited
Your shout
March 16th, 2008 at 5:08 pmSurge-arific! Mr. Rockstack. What a plan!
March 16th, 2008 at 5:17 pm.
A Joke…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJgusWL1AAk
A disease…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olPP5Vq7mqY
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March 16th, 2008 at 5:18 pmA little deja vu, McNutbag? So why didn’t Mr. Maverick walk through the same market place this time? No cheap rugs left?
Only 100 troops and 3 Blackwater snipers guarding him? Was hoping this nutcase might decide to stay there and live since it’s so “peachy”. I guess Cindy wouldn’t be able to find her Lady Clairol Bleach Kit in the market though.
March 16th, 2008 at 5:31 pm.
Thecairngman Says:
March 16th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Imagine, if you will:
China invades the U.S.A. based on claims that the U.S.A. has weapons of mass destruction and assists other rogue nations and terrorists. The ensuing invasion results in the toppling of ALL Government, local and Federal, only to be supplanted by Communism. During this invasion, our cities, some obliterated(see Falluja, are ransacked daily by the occupying forces. Maybe your family had to witness your father and eldest brother be shackled and hooded only to be carted off for further “interrogation. Maybe your house was ransacked only once this past month. And because of this invasion, you can’t drink fresh water from the tap for there is none running, and four hours of electricity is something to be grateful for. Imagine this invasion stripped your national army only to be re-recruited to fill the NEW National Army’s ranks. Then after years of this occupation, you find out that this happened only because China seeks to protect the coalfields of America because China depends upon coal futures. Who would argue against the uprising insurgent population? Who would promote the idea that protecting the coal is a good thing, as if the remaining impact of the invasion was negligible? In fact, who would argue that China need stay at all?
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March 16th, 2008 at 5:32 pmBadger: What’s more it was none of our business to even attempt to settle “their” civil war in the first place.
March 16th, 2008 at 5:32 pmI thought McMelanoma was going to divulge the details of his invasive cancer this past week? Did I miss his doc’s report?
March 16th, 2008 at 5:33 pmdidn’t mean to be a bold blogger - sorry, folks. I didnt’ touch a thing.
March 16th, 2008 at 5:34 pmcerberus Says
there are old bloggers and there are bold bloggers but there are no old, bold bloggers.
March 16th, 2008 at 5:47 pmMoqtada Al Sadr controls most of Iraq. I laugh when I hear people like McCain saying we have to stay or the country will be taken over by radical clerics and Mullahs. He doesn’t realize it already is controlled by radical clerics. Our occupation just makes those radicals stronger.
It’s time to turn Iraq over to the UN. They are trained for peace-keeping and building administration in ravaged nations. Our military is trained to destroy another conventional military, not nation-building and peace-keeping.
The UN has a better chance of winning over the population. Attacks on independent UN peace-keepers would be met by more outrage than attacks on US forces, who are seen as occupiers.
Ease restrictions on foreign investment into the Iraqi infrastructure and oil industry. Turn stabilizing Iraq into a worldwide goal, not just a US military mission.
Iraqis only hope is a Democratic Party win in the US Presidency. We will have more of the same situation under John McCain. We will suffer here at home watching our young people dying in Iraq, and watching Americans lose jobs and their homes because our economy cannot sustain endless war and sky-rocketing oil prices.
March 16th, 2008 at 5:53 pmSo where can McBat stroll now?
What about the ol’ partitioning of the country idea?
March 16th, 2008 at 5:57 pmlol that’s some funny stuff.
March 16th, 2008 at 5:58 pmFred - No old bold but old bold “gold” bloggers. :)
March 16th, 2008 at 5:58 pmMcCain is rumored to be considering a surprise visit to the US Senate. The USA is in desperate need of a surge of sensibility. McCain is incapable of helping the USA regain its way.
March 16th, 2008 at 5:59 pmI don’t know about anyone else but the sight of McBat$hit complete in his bulletproof vest and his pasty complexion makes me want to barf at the mere sight of him. Double blech!
March 16th, 2008 at 5:59 pmthat area is controlled by the radical cleric Moqtada al Sadr’s Mahdi army.
This means the obvious: The surge is working!
Silly, silly “libruls”…
/sarc off
March 16th, 2008 at 6:04 pmThecairngman Says:
Natural selection!
Natural selection has already thinned cave man mentality like yours down to the good ol U S of A. We are currently working on that problem….
March 16th, 2008 at 6:09 pmBrianFL
March 16th, 2008 at 6:11 pmI absolutly agree, the UN is the only sensible solution to this. Problem is that the cro-magnons that occupy the white house right now have no respect for a world organization for peace……they don’t get to run things so they pout and cry about it.
McSame McHensley McHeinz McKeating.
March 16th, 2008 at 6:22 pmGrampa McCain, Liarman, and closet queen should just stay in Iraq. Kind of a, dump them there so we don’t have to smell them here, plan.
March 16th, 2008 at 6:24 pmI just remembered, McBat can stroll around the green zone. He’s got Lindsey Graham and Joe Lie-berman in tow this time. They all can get in their cammo’s and feel manly, while visiting the greenzone Starbuck’s.
March 16th, 2008 at 6:26 pmThey all can get in their cammo’s and feel manly, while visiting the greenzone Starbuck’s.
A costume party with cameras. More photo ops to front an empty policy. Leave those sick phucks there.
March 16th, 2008 at 6:29 pmI hope they get a good deal on some rugs.
March 16th, 2008 at 6:39 pmBAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA… Oh yeah, Ol’ Grandpa sure has the presidency sown up! A born leader who’s been consistently wrong about Iraq, just like Cokehead Bush.
March 16th, 2008 at 6:50 pmI’m sure that CNN, MSNBC, NBC, and FOX will all point this out.
March 16th, 2008 at 6:51 pmThecairngman Says:
Lets protect the Oil and let Iraq fight it out!!!
I wonder if this idiot troll can tell us who owns the oil? I’ll give him a hint. It’s not us.
March 16th, 2008 at 6:54 pmIs it the cairngman because he can’t spell caring or cairn? or does it not care that it can’t spell cairn? What’s a pile of prayer rocks to phony christian anyway?
March 16th, 2008 at 7:19 pmWhat’s a pile of prayer rocks to phony christian anyway?
We keep leaving them in hopes the poor deluded dupes will find their way to reason…..
March 16th, 2008 at 7:22 pmWhat the Bush Administration fails to realize, is that the most realistic , long term countweight to Iranian influence in Iraq IS Al Sadr and his Mahdi Army. They are IRAQI NATIONALISTS, and opposed to the Iranian controlled Badr Brigades of SCIRI (Supreme Coucil of the ISLAMIC Republic of Iraq).
March 16th, 2008 at 7:28 pmShiites WILL control southern Iraq. Do we want Iraqi Nationalists or Iranian Puppets????
When you check out the icasualities web site two things stick out regarding Iraqi’s killed. First, the number was cut in half when al Sadr ordered his troops to cease fire. Second, March will be the 4th straight month where the number killed have increased - with a quickening pace at that. What we can’t tell from those numbers, however, is where the increased killing is taking place. This is only a guess, but my guess is that the increased killing is split between Basra and Mosul.
When is the last time you have read a news report that says that things are again start to deteriorate in Iraq. Why else, though, would the military announce a freeze on withdrawing surge forces? And why is the media not questioning the reasoning for this freeze. Next week this war starts its 6th year. Somebody need to start answering the tough questions — but first somebody needs to start asking those tough questions. Right now all we have is silence.
March 16th, 2008 at 7:39 pmHere is a link to the CNN video where Mc Cain says how safe it is in Iraq and the reporter in the field calls him out and says everything stopping short of calling him insane.
CNN Video of Mc Cain on ’safe Iraq war’
It’s the middle video — funny as hell.
March 16th, 2008 at 7:54 pmOne Year Later, Market Where McCain Strolled ‘Freely’ Is Controlled By Sadr, Too Unsafe For Americans To Visit
Filed under “Global Leadership”. The irony.
And double irony if you’re of a foreing country reading the blog. Why must the USA be the “Global Leader”? Inquiring minds want to know the reason of this compulsion in the USA culture.
March 16th, 2008 at 7:57 pmInquiring minds want to know the reason of this compulsion in the USA culture.
(Evil Spaniard)
Shortly after WW2, and with the advent of mass media, Americans began to be convinced they needed to buy their freedom.
March 16th, 2008 at 8:10 pmThe military industrial complex that Eisenhower so adamantly warned us about began to buy, sell and export war as a commodity.
Americans were pounded with the notion we were a great nation that deserved to be the global leader.
Nevar Says:
March 16th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
My question was rethorical, but really, you’ve explained it all very succinctly and accurately, thanks :)
March 16th, 2008 at 8:19 pmAccording to BBC News, it’s McCain’s 8th visit to Iraq. I am not sure what this guy is trying to do there but it looks like he is just wasting taxpayers money - as usual.
The fact that McCain supports an illegal war should disqualify him for any public service. He fails to understand, recognize, and connect to the will of the majority American people.
Also accompanied McCain on his trip were Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham, who are just as disconnected from the reality as McCain. Joe LIEberman has NOT been working in the American people’s interests, obviously. What a traitor this piece of !$%$#! is!
McCain is finished. And he’s dragging the entire Republican party down with him. It’s truly amazing to see how diluted these people are. They are NOT serving in the interests of the American people. In fact they are weakening our nation’s strength and destroying our nation’s positive image in the eyes of the world. They should be and must be removed from office now.
March 16th, 2008 at 8:26 pmI look around me today and see the self absorption of the average person with their car, cell phone, clothes and whether or not they are sexually attractive. Young people flip out when they can’t get a text message through, and when they do, they drop everything they’re doing to focus on the tiny little screen in their hands, oblivious to everything going on around them.
March 16th, 2008 at 8:31 pmJim Wolf359 Says: ?March 16th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
He and the rest of the Repugs are so detached from reality that it is amazing.
Do you really believe “the Repugs are so detached from reality” as you state? I believe they have their own “reality” which we have been forced to swallow for 7 years. Add up their “successes” from THEIR point of view. Not ours. They know exactly what they want and know extremely well what they are doing and why they are doing it. To the neocons, the ends always justify their means. And you have got to acknowledge that the reality on the ground is exactly what they wanted and what they got.
The price to everyone else is of no concern, as long as they reach their goals.
March 16th, 2008 at 8:43 pmReally, the modern disconnection of the atrocities of the real world is the greatest danger of the modern era: people don’t give a damn about the rest of the humanity, and simply cheers to a televised war, refusing to see the very real faces back the flashy things and the image bits of courage or political indoctrination. Sad.
March 16th, 2008 at 8:46 pmThis just in:
Red Cross slams ‘critical’ situation in post-invasion Iraq
March 16th, 2008 at 8:47 pmhttp://news.yahoo.com/ s/ afp/ 20080316/ hl_afp/ iraq5yearsredcrossrights_080316231549;_ylt=ArC7xszgIBd_Uix5.tixacWs0NUE
Nevar Says:
March 16th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
Ah, Raven! You speak the wisdom of the aged… er ages. Now, crowding 73 (good grief, I’m older than McBush!) I agree with you wholeheartedly. I am now “above the fray” and can gaze with wizened eyes all those things I once took so seriously.
As the old song said:
March 16th, 2008 at 8:50 pmBut its a long, long, time from May to December…
Evil Spaniard Says:
March 16th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
Really, the modern disconnection of the atrocities of the real world is the greatest danger of the modern era: people don’t give a damn about the rest of the humanity, and simply cheers to a televised war, refusing to see the very real faces back the flashy things and the image bits of courage or political indoctrination. Sad.
Yes indeed. I wonder how many countries are ruled by despotic dictators who create a level of pain and suffering commensurate with their size and power. That questioned, I would guess we are the leading nation, by a long shot, whose people are totally self absorbed, and thoroughly confused about what is going on, or why it is important.
March 16th, 2008 at 9:00 pmI still can’t shake the feeling that McCain is just being a dutiful sacrificial lamb. The GOP gives him a nomination, in a lost election, before he dies and they’ll be rid of “the maverick” forever.
March 16th, 2008 at 9:50 pmpete Says:
March 16th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
I still can’t shake the feeling that McCain is just being a dutiful sacrificial lamb. The GOP gives him a nomination, in a lost election, before he dies and they’ll be rid of “the maverick” forever.
Why bother to do that, pete, he is no longer a maverick. I think they would love for him to win. He has sold his soul to the neocon cabal and will make a great sock puppet. And, besides, I can’t think of another candidate that would fill bush’s tiny shoes better than McBush.
March 16th, 2008 at 10:04 pmMerlin Says:
March 16th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
True. He never was much of a maverick and he would be Bush Mk3. However, I think the GOP has realized that, barring divine intervention, they will lose the White House. McCain, like the gang of freaks who began the campaign, is expendable.
March 16th, 2008 at 10:19 pmLindsey Graham is a butt pirate. If McBat gets elected, Jeffy Gannon’s new job will be Graham.
March 16th, 2008 at 10:22 pmI saw a few seconds of video of him, security entourage in tow, stumbling around a safe sector of Baghdad. He looked like an old man about to faint.
March 16th, 2008 at 10:49 pmFive year anniversary coming in a couple of days.
Must Read:
CELEBRATING THE ANNIVERSARY, MR. BUSH?
Editorial begins:
http://tvnewslies.org/ tvnl/ index.php/ editorial/ reggies-commentary/ 20-regs-thoughts/ 637-celebrating-the-anniversary-mr-bush
March 17th, 2008 at 12:06 amThe Old Man And The Siege.
March 17th, 2008 at 12:06 amGrampa McCain is so patri-idiotic.
March 17th, 2008 at 12:34 amJohn King , you should take Al Sadr downtown to the city government building and officially change his name to ” Radical Cleric” Moqtada al Sadr and while your parroting U.S. foreign policy and republican talking points , don’t forget to ALWAYS introduce Ahmed Chalabi as ” convicted felon and CIA operative ” Ahmed Chalabi . You know, for the sake of being fair and balance , you know babe . And is it he’s ” radical ” because he’s against American occupation , interesting . Not wanting a foreign power controlling your country , oh that’s right , if it’s U.S. military occupying your country , and you oppose it , you’re RADICAL . King you’re a fraud .
March 17th, 2008 at 2:07 amI find this to be an amusing comment. Deaths in February are way down from 2007, 2006, and 2005 levels, whether you measure it in US troops deaths or Iraqi civilian deaths. We have taken a large step back from vicious civil war that began in 2006. As the Iraqi economy improves, along with more political reconciliation, the long-term prospects of a relatively stable Iraq improve as well. That’s what we’re fighting for, and it seems to me that if we pulled out when everyone here wanted to, Iraq would be much worse off and America wouldn’t be really more secure, either.
We shouldn’t have gone in there in the first place, but I agree with Sen. Obama - we have to be as careful getting out as we were careless getting in. Part of being careful is that we ask ourselves whether an American presence can provide the security the country needs to get on its feet. So, if things are improving on a political, security and economic level now, why leave and abandon that positive trajectory?
March 17th, 2008 at 3:09 amThe only thing about the current trajectory is that it is all downhill. If we continue to lose ground at the current rate, it will be 2007 all over again.
March 17th, 2008 at 5:19 amthirdparty Says:
March 17th, 2008 at 3:09 am
Well, somebody SHOULD HAVE pulled out, NO?
Can you prove that if we pull out, you’re assertion and use of “PULL OUT” that America will be less secure or that Iraq will be worse off? Can you? … ?
Sure you can’t, but we can imagine it, can’t we?
Let’s see, can we play the “WHAT IF” game?
How ’bout what if America heads up a PEACE KEEPING MISSION?
THEN WHAT? Less to fear, perhaps…
… But the that takes out the fear card, doesn’t it. Can’t competently campaign without that fear, can we?
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March 17th, 2008 at 5:43 amhttp://news.yahoo.com/ edcartoons/ jeffdanziger;_ylt=AmsCkBNg5bZ0yOL6XjhDemkDwLAF
March 17th, 2008 at 6:31 amBadger Says:
March 16th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Shiites WILL control southern Iraq. Do we want Iraqi Nationalists or Iranian Puppets????
Whoever’s more likely to sign PSAs with ExxonMobil.
March 17th, 2008 at 7:00 amThe Iraq experience has laid bare the limits of raw military power
The next US president must reject the juvenile Bush vision, reach out to Iran and seek justice for the Palestinian people
March 17th, 2008 at 7:06 amIt is becoming eerie. All these Republican dignitaries talk about freely visiting streets and marketplaces in Iraq giving the impression they are unescorted. Yet statements made by top military officials still call Iraq a dangerous place. Isn’t the photo of McCain living proof that hardly any one goes unescorted. Even our troops traverse Iraq in company size groups.
March 17th, 2008 at 7:09 amdeke33 Says:
March 17th, 2008 at 7:09 am
Even our troops traverse Iraq in company size groups.
And even the trip from Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, to its airport is the more pounded highway of Iraq.
March 17th, 2008 at 7:30 amWhat I find disheartening is the fact that so many of those Congressional brave souls who constantly utter the public pablum of “our brave troops” have never experienced the horrors of war and many did everything in their power to avoid their generation’s war, Nam, yet felt no compunction nor remorse is giving war powers to a person who struts around with such bravado that you know this is a coverup for what he truly is.
March 17th, 2008 at 7:59 amI demand George Bush publicaly Apologize to Iraq and the People of Iraq for this monstrous disaster
March 17th, 2008 at 8:46 amI went to the mall just the other day and I wore my fashionable desert gray bullet resistant vest. You can’t be too safe! It’s all a little bit much isn’t it. We have a crazy man presidential candidate making a “surprise” visit to Iraq like it’s not always a surprise. Basically they drop in quickly so they don’t end up in some gunner’s sights. He can’t walk where he walked last year because it’s too dangerous for Americans. An Iraqi politician hit the nail saying that McCain was there for “politics.” Ooops, our friends see us for who we really are. McCain has changed courses so many times it is a legitimate point of inquiry to inquire as to his sanity. Staying in Iraq for a hundred years is not out of the question for McCain. If he gets elected he can be the Pontius Pilate of Iraq. Oh he’d love it so. Forget Iraq McCain, our financial house is falling down around our ears, stocks are tanking, random murder is rampant in the U.S. and OUR infrastructure is rotting. How ’bout in McClone.
March 17th, 2008 at 10:21 am“one year later” ?
You mean one hour later, after the huge armed (with helicopter) escort followed McStain from the market.
March 17th, 2008 at 11:44 amOf course this is about “what ifs,” Max. And I argue that the “what if” of pulling out and things getting worse is much more likely than the “What if” of leaving and things not being worse. Obama says he’d go back in to Iraq if al Qaeda tries to form a base there; well, I think that we’re better off securing the place until Iraqis can secure it themselves and count on their government, rather than leaving and having to return when we realize we left too soon.
March 18th, 2008 at 5:59 am