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2007-09-01 Iraq

Lawmakers Describe Being Slimed in the Green Zone

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Posted by Besoeker 2007-09-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 It's funny 'cause it's true! So, why did Rep Moran (D-MBNA) go there anyway?

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2007-09-01 00:24|| 2007-09-01 00:24|| Front Page Top

#2 So Iraqi guy would rather watch cartoons then talk to the esteemed congressmen?
Can't say I blame him.

Posted by tu3031 2007-09-01 00:33|| 2007-09-01 00:33|| Front Page Top

#3 So Iraqi guy would rather watch cartoons then talk to the esteemed congressmen?

At least the cartoons make sense. I'd rather watch the Talitubbies than have to listen to the tortured logic and positioning of many of them.

Posted by gorb 2007-09-01 03:41|| 2007-09-01 03:41|| Front Page Top

#4 They don't like information about themselves? What, it should be secret? They should be proud the military cared enough to inform the troops how important they are.

But another complaint was there wasn't enough information (Tauscher's more recent vote) to be fair and balanced. Where's the femtoviolin? This is the WaPo.

Posted by Bobby 2007-09-01 07:35|| 2007-09-01 07:35|| Front Page Top

#5 "I'm being slimed with my own bio and comments. It's so unfair!" Rep. Ellen O. Tauscher (D-Calif.) sobbed....

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-09-01 08:39|| 2007-09-01 08:39|| Front Page Top

#6 This is, what, the fourth time lefties have declared having their own words come back at them is being "slimed"? It's as if they're afraid of what they say, or as if they're not used to being called on the crap that spews from their mouths.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2007-09-01 10:36|| 2007-09-01 10:36|| Front Page Top

#7 What has them realy bothered is that the soldiers in question were not the passive props for photo ops that they wanted. They turned out to be intersted, active participants. Armed, angry active participants who were calling them on their lies.

Having reality intrude into your cocoon is traumatic if that reality calls into question your narcicism(sp?). This sort of intrusion needs to happen a lot more.

The only alternative that will punch thru their delusions is to have these fools throats slit by jihadis. Nobody deserves that (not even these loons!), and dead people cannot be re-educated.

Posted by N Guard 2007-09-01 10:39|| 2007-09-01 10:39|| Front Page Top

#8 "Now I want to see what they're saying about me," he added, when he learned of the contents of his travel companions' rap sheets

Go to Rantburg.com, or virtualy any mil-blogger site in his home state. Beware what you wish for. Heh.

Posted by N Guard 2007-09-01 10:43|| 2007-09-01 10:43|| Front Page Top

#9 IIRC Porter is an OK Rep. There's generally one per trip to give cover to the ~~Morons~~ Morans of the delegation

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-09-01 11:19|| 2007-09-01 11:19|| Front Page Top

#10 The problem, of course, is that they aren't just troops over there, obeying orders, but voters. Informed voters who almost all of whom vote, as opposed to the lazies back home.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-09-01 11:20|| 2007-09-01 11:20|| Front Page Top

#11 Informed voters who almost all of whom vote

not if AlGore and the DNC had their way....remember Florida and military absentee ballots?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-09-01 11:23|| 2007-09-01 11:23|| Front Page Top

#12 In the soldier's hand was a thumbnail biography, distributed before each of the congressmen's meetings in Baghdad, which let meeting participants such as that soldier know where each of the lawmakers stands on the war.

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril. - Sun Tzu, The Art of War

It's good that the troops understand that the war is being waged on two fronts and knows those who seek his defeat in both.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-09-01 11:40|| 2007-09-01 11:40|| Front Page Top

#13 Truth is NOT slander, if the truth hurts, you've only yourself (And your "Handlers") to blame.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-09-01 14:37|| 2007-09-01 14:37|| Front Page Top

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