Comments on: Mr. McCain Goes To Baghdad

By: Anntichrist S. Coulter

Anntichrist S. Coulter — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 04:47:10 +0000

No shit.

McFonda doesn’t care, though — all that he cares about is that he looked all macho and shit whilst wasting about 350 gallons of helicopter/jet fuel a fucking minute, not to mention special overtime on 100 fucking soldiers who could’ve been annihilated for his little fucking dick-enhancing ego trip. Why the fuck can’t Bob Dole take this freak aside and quietly explain to him that it’s OVER?!??!?!

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 03:45:06 +0000

It’s hard to argue that the Iraq mission is short of cash when they find money for political photo ops. McCain has lost it. This was just around the bend, his need to justify his claims. I don’t doubt it was part of the reason 21 Iraqis who worked in the market were ambushed and murdered – just part of the PR campaign.

By: Anntichrist S. Coulter

Anntichrist S. Coulter — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 03:37:26 +0000

I didn’t like Ware for a long time, because it seemed (to this partisan bitch, anyway) that he was doing a lot of well-scripted ooh-rah for the Powers That Occupy. Then whatever happened happened, and he appeared on CNN with a black eye and a busted nose. I didn’t assume that he’d gotten that in a bar fight, in other words.

Over the past few weeks, he has gotten more and more critical of the Bushistas, and I figure that it’s about damned time, especially since he doesn’t have the personal escort of Apaches and Blackhawks and 100 soldiers to cover his ass. The McCain mutiny is most likely accidental, but the hopped-up response by the republicunts couldn’t be any more cynical or disgusting. Wasting millions so that John McCain can feel like his dick still functions. Nice priorities for a war vet, eh? Endangering the lives of military personnel and wasting HUUUUUGE chunks of military spending for a fucking CAMPAIGN STUMP?!??!?!?!? Forget his aging and pathetic excuse for a dick, this motherfucker has BALLS!!!!!!!!

This shit is not unlike what Jane Fonda did in posing on anti-aircraft weaponry with the Viet Cong. And somebody damned well ought to tell the motherfucker. He mocks the deaths of American soldiers and marines with his cold-hearted publicity stunt, and he ought to have whatever medals he won stripped from his puffed-up chest.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 21:42:56 +0000

For some reason, when I was a student at IU in Bloomington, I don’t remember armed soldiers and helicopters overhead at the outdoor markets.

By: John B

John B — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 21:23:09 +0000

This is Blue Indiana's quote of the day from Rep. Mike Pence (R-Indiana) who accompanied McCain on his stroll through the militarily clamped-down Baghdad market:

...Pence, R-Ind., traveling Sunday in Iraq's capital with three other GOP members of Congress, compared a shopping area there to a "normal outdoor market in Indiana in the summertime."

I know one state I won't be shopping in anytime soon.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 16:09:39 +0000

Actually, Mike Ware and Juan Cole are both people who have lived in war zones as civilians, and know what life is like during wars. Visitors and soldiers have a totally different experience. It’s like living through a hurricane and watching it on television – it’s not the same. It’s one thing to look at the destruction from a war after the guns fall silent, but altogether different when the neighborhood was whole in the morning and you are in the center of it when the shells start landing.

Karen, if this war is so important to them, no one is stopping them from tithing to Pentagon to support the war, or enlisting to fight in it. Don’t tell me you think it’s a good idea at the same time you object to paying taxes, and won’t volunteer.

I don’t want to pay for it, and don’t want anyone to be sent to fight in it. Because of the incompetence and lack of planning, the US is a major cause of the continuing violence. The US presence is a major excuse for murderous thugs to roam freely.

By: Karen

Karen — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 13:02:15 +0000

Just like “The wingers tried to generate a smoke screen by…” pretending to be the Fighting 101st Keyboarders – the Equivalent to the *Rough and Ready* squadrons..as long as they don’t get…like, you know, a serious injury, a HANG NAIL or something!

Blech – despicable inveterate Liars…every one of em!

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 07:59:45 +0000

Good grief. I’ve encountered Mr. Ware before, and I consider his credentials impeccable. If any reporter alive today understands the nature of sectarian war, and has put himself in harm’s way to report it, it is Michael Ware. Columnists criticize him to the detriment of their own credibility. One might as well criticize Prof. Cole for his scholarship on the region. Oh, wait…

Sen. McCain’s well-protected walkabout notwithstanding, people are dying in Iraq at a rate guaranteed to make one cry, unless one has a heart of stone. If not for the sake of our own troops, then for the sake of Iraqis themselves… we need to get the (bleep) out of there.

“TBogg-an” … good one, Bryan. Your craft is improving, not that it was ever lacking! 🙂