Yesterday, Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Bob Corker (R-TN) returned from a brief trip to Iraq, proclaiming that they saw “clear success” on the ground. But their definitive claims of witnessing success were seriously undermined by their traveling partner, Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH), who admitted to reporters that the senators had only spent 10-14 hours in total in Iraq.
Is this really just a game to all these guys?
Maybe this is why he was only there for 10-14 hours. It was all he needed.
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Pb
Wow*:
We closed Saddam’s rape rooms, and replaced his brutal dictatorship with CAPITALISM, I tell you…
* That’s “Wow” as in “Wow, CNN is covering this”…
rawshark
Why even go to Iraq. The right people would believe them if they stood in front of a green screen. They wouldn’t even need to superimpose them onto a scene from Iraq. Pointing out that they are standing in front of a green screen and not actually in Iraq is an attack on the troops.
Jake
Yes. SA2SQ
Oh man. That’s ugly and will just get uglier. Not just in terms of disease and unwanted children but why do I suspect that it is just a matter of time before a known brothel becomes a favorite ambush point?
myiq2xu
Was that Hedley Lamar?
Rick Taylor
“Unbelievable”
Yes. You’d think I’d stop saying that by now, but I never seem to get quite jaded enough not to be continually staggered by what Republican congressmen will say and do. The theatrics when Murtha made his proposal proved politics and saddling the Democrats with “Cutting and Running” was far more important to them than having a serious discussion about a horrendously delicate situation this needless war has gotten us into it, even given the stakes. It is sickening.
–Rick Taylor
Librarian
Vitter was in Iraq? I tell you, sometimes the jokes write themselves.
Tsulagi
Yes. It’s so these heavily protected brain-dead assholes can come back and say they have seen the pony and it is in good health. Said to their possibly even more brain-dead Malkinettes so they can all join in the manly merriment of cupping each other at the news.
That CNN story is sad.
The Other Steve
I don’t understand why they needed to go to Iraq.
Couldn’t they have just diagnosed this war by seeing a video tape?
Doug H.
Voinovich is that rare breed of Republican: He still has a conscience. You just need to bring things right to his face to shake it out.
RSA
Gotta wonder if he was confusing the amount of time he spent in Baghdad with the time it took to get there (a 6,500 mile flight, at, say, 600 mph). Nah. But that is weird. Did he have a more important appointment to get back to?
myiq2xu
I guess they took the Potemkin Village tour.
They weren’t even in Iraq, they were on the same top secret studio set inside Area 51 where they filmed the moon landings.
KC
Man, this whole thing is a massive PR stunt, beginning to end. Congress goes on vacation, we get an oped by two war “critics.” Next, we get the Vice President praising the oped, citing the “critics” meme. Pretty soon, that’s all we’re hearing about is “progress” (I word I remember hearing a lot circa 2004). However, in truth, by just about every indicator, we’re actually doing worse in Iraq.
What a crazy fuckin’ world.
Andrew
Hey guys, remember when Lamar Alexander was nationally relevant and well known?
Yeah, me neither.
DonkeyKong
Bob Corker full quote about General Petraeus was as follows.
Hey, man, you don’t talk to the General. You listen to him. The man’s enlarged my mind. He’s a poet-warrior in the classic sense. I mean, sometimes he’ll, uh, well, you’ll say hello to him, right? And he’ll just walk right by you, and he won’t even notice you. And suddenly he’ll grab you, and he’ll throw you in a corner, and he’ll say do you know that if is the middle word in life? If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you – I mean, I’m no, I can’t – I’m a little man, I’m a little man, he’s, he’s a great man. I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across floors of silent seas – I mean –
DonkeyKong
Lamar Alexander was quoted as saying after the 10 hour tour of duty.
There’s mines over there, there’s mines over there, and watch out those goddamn monkeys bite, I’ll tell ya.
Tax Analyst
Don’tcha understand? These guys are SENATORS. SENATORS, especially those who reflexively vote in favor of War don’t “do” War. They can’t…it’s dangerous shit and they might get their precious asses handed to them in a sling – or blasted up into their head by some IED. They do “cameo” bits for the folks back home so they can act like they take this type of thing seriously. Or in Vitter’s case to show that he can do something other than solicit sex acts.
As Tsulagi pointed out, when they get back home they can report on the pony’s health. They all know that they can’t get re-elected if people think we’ve got a sick pony. Hey, maybe Vitter went along to stroke it off.
Ryan S.
Good that must mean we can leave.
KC
I just think Kevin Drum has pretty much spelled out what the surge is: an ego trip for neocons. Just look at the charts. Spelled out better than I’ve seen anywhere.
TR
Looks like he’s gone from “Lamar!” to “Oh, fuck. Lamar.”
incontrolados
This post and its’ links reminded me of what I took from Full Metal Jacket. The females in that movie were either whores or assassins.
In ten years, Hewitt wants the movies now, there will be on the screen that harrowing truth from that link.
Wingnuts will deny.
How do we get out of this loop?
TenguPhule
Indeed they do.
We have a whole new spin on ‘Dog and Pony Show’ and ‘Screwing the Pooch’ in Iraq now.
TenguPhule
If only those Republicans would spend more time in Iraq.
Our problems would be solved, one way or another.
Bob In Pacifica
Did they have time to go shopping for rugs? I hear that there’s good bargains there.
Zifnab
Are you kidding? This is the closest cable news can get to airing porn. Nothing brings in those eyeballs like “Hot, Hot Iraqi on Marine Action Like You’ve Never Seen It Before!”
I wouldn’t be surprised if the segment was sandwhiched between a report on teenage girls dressing in incredibly short skirts (causing a hubbub in small towns across America), and yet another expose on Nevada strip clubs.
Salty Party Snax
Lamer could only spend half a day or so in Iraq because his flannel shirts got all sweaty.
Pb
To Catch A Predator was a big success, but when the kids are in Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo? Not so much.
Nothing to see here–move along, citizen.
demimondian
Fixed.
Jake
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Pshaw, Pb. It is a well known fact that brown people, particularly foreign brown people, mature at a far earlier age due to the need to procreate quickly before their miserable, bestial lives are cut short by disease or malnutrition. I bet those young devils were born with full beards and an AK-47 in their pudgy little hands. [/snarkothon]
Maybe Bush will say locking up 12 year olds in solitary is part of his No Child Left Behind program.
Look, why is this a surprise? For years our court system has arbitrarily [cough] decided to try minors as adults. In this country children (and zygotes) are convenient political props. Sometimes they get paraded out to show us why we need to let GoneZo sniff our internet use records or block federal funding for stem cell research. Sometimes they get paraded out to show that some PA is Tuff on Crime.
If the little ankle biters ever get mad and organized about what we do to them it’ll make that Star Trek episode look like a picnic.
HyperIon
this was the headline to an op-ed in today’s seattle times.
i don’t know who wrote the headline but again i ask:
when did we become a county of MORONS?
HyperIon
county = country
Rick Taylor
“Unbelievable!”
I feel like the Sicilian in the Princess Bride.
Vizzini: “He didn’t fall?!? Inconceivable!”
Inigo Montoya: “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
James
Gear up for grub with a tripleheader of pigskin, including a meeting of brothers in Dallas. Everybody knows it’s been a rough year for her, but find out who else had issues