Most everyone, at this point, should be familiar with Saint John McCain's photo op tour of Baghdad made necessary by his own ill considered and increasingly desperate defense of the Iraq war.
He claimed, in a moment of high comedy, that you or I could walk through some areas of Baghdad like any city in America.
Then, after the ridicule washed over him and apparently injured his frail ego, he decided that he needed to prove, and so he did. He and Senator Graham made an unannounced visit to Baghdad, where they strolled through a market....
Strolled. With a hundred fully armed troops, and accompanied by armored vehicles and two attack helicopters. in a market that had been cleared of all but the vendors themselves. And wearing body armor. for fifteen minutes.
Safe as houses, that.
But that is par for the course with someone so egregiously self-righteous and embarrassingly eager to sell his principles in pursuit of the Presidency as McCain has become.
The sickening coda.
as 21 Shia market workers were ambushed, bound and shot dead north of the capital.
The victims came from the Baghdad market visited the previous day by John McCain, the US presidential candidate, who said that an American security plan in the capital was starting to show signs of progress.
Larry Johnson, on Countdown tonight, stated that the market workers would be endangering themselves by just talking with Americans during the visit, and he was proven right.
I hope Graham enjoys those fucking 5 dollar rugs. I'd like to take this article, have it painted on a large piece of wood, and beat McCain with it. Especially because I know that he will be completely oblivious to his part in this recent murder; which, in a sickeningly ironic way, goes to disprove the statement he made last week.
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