This can't be right. John "Straight Talk" McCain is apparently stretching the truth just a teensy bit regarding the safe streets in Baghdad. But... but I thought he shopped... I thought he was in a safe neighborhood and that according to him, there are plenty of safe neighborhoods.
Well, why don't we talk to the Iraqi merchants?
NY Times:
“What are they talking about?” Ali Jassim Faiyad, the owner of an electrical appliances shop in the market, said Monday. “The security procedures were abnormal!”
“They paralyzed the market when they came,” Mr. Faiyad said during an interview in his shop on Monday. “This was only for the media.” He added, “This will not change anything.”
“They asked about our conditions, and we told them the situation was bad,” said Aboud Sharif Kadhoury, 63, who peddles prayer rugs at a sidewalk stand. He said he sold a small prayer rug worth less than $1 to a member of the Congressional delegation. (The official paid $20 and told Mr. Kadhoury to keep the change, the vendor said.)
Mr. Kadhoury said he lost more than $2,000 worth of merchandise in the triple bombing in February. “I was hit in the head and back with shrapnel,” he recalled.
“This area here is very dangerous,” continued Mr. Youssef, who lost his shop in the February attack. “They cannot secure it.”
“Every time the government announces anything — that the electricity is good or the water supply is good — the insurgents come to attack it immediately,” said Abu Samer, 49, who would give only his nickname out of concern for his safety.
But wait a minute! I thought John McCain, Mr. Straight Talk, one of the Republicans running for the Presidential primary said it was safe. How can this be? How can he be wrong? He was there himself, wasn't he?
Mr. McCain was asked about a comment he made on a radio program in which he said that he could walk freely through certain areas of Baghdad.
“I just came from one,” he replied sharply. “Things are better and there are encouraging signs.” He added, “Never have I been able to go out into the city as I was today.”
Well I guess that statement is true. I don't know of many people that can claim that they go shopping wearing body armor, with 100 armed troops watching their back, and helicopter support overhead.
How misguided can this freak be? Doesn't he know there are these new inventions called CAMERAS out there in the real world that can record and take images of his "safe shopping stroll" through the streets of Baghdad?! Here's one:
McCain, you miserable, good-for-nothing, idiot. Stop wasting taxpayer dollars on photo op trips to Iraq. You are so desperate to claim this lost war is working, you'll do or say anything in your zealous run for the presidency to achieve your goal. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately for us), you are as out of touch with reality as are the 30% of the population that still support the Chimp in Chief. How in the hell do you think you can even come close to winning an election when you are at odds with 70% of the American people?!
Go home, Maverick. Stop embarrassing us... Just go home.
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He's backed himself into a corner because he has always been for the war.Like bush,he can't admit he made a mistake.The voters see this and say we already have a dillusional president,we are not going to elect another one.He has become a pathetic joke.
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