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McCain's Bazaar Photo Op Saga Ends in Bloodshed
God, this is so sad.
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...
Mr. McCain said that the situation was showing signs of improvement and blamed waning support in the United States for the war on the media, which were portraying an overly negative image of the crisis.
I suppose if 21 people weren't killed coming out of the market, 21 different people would have been killed somewhere else, just because violence is that bad in Baghdad these days. But seriously, Jesus Christ.
What a horrible price to pay so an American politican could make a fake point to undergird his fake credibility.
Spotted on Wonkette.
Posted by Jonathan Stein on 04/04/07 at 5:06 PM | E-mail | Print | Digg | de.licio.us | Reddit | Newsvine | Yahoo! MyWeb | StumbleUpon | Netscape | Google |
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Before this week, I was hoping that McCain would be the Republican who would make up for the last eight years of stupidity, incompetance, embarassment, and shame brought by the current administration. I really expected more from him. My mistake!
Posted by: Anne on 04/04/07 at 6:35 PM
John McCain should be ashamed of himself. Anyone could've forseen this happening. I wonder how many more people died as a result of pulling 100 soldiers and five attack helicopters off their normal patrols to protect him.
Posted by: PoliticalCritic on 04/05/07 at 10:31 AM
If McCain wants his "Straight Talk Express" to be anything but a bad punchline on late night TV he better come out and issue an abject apology for what his political grandstanding has wrought.
Everybody is piling on Pelosi for getting gamed by Bush and Olmert, and to a certain extent she deserves some of what she is getting for grandstanding, but at least nobody has died because of it. Why is it that when white male Republican politicians feel the need to project their manliness people die?
Posted by: majun on 04/05/07 at 1:00 PM
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I sort of hope John McCain shuts up now. Forever. Can't he retire, or something??? He obviously has no idea how stupid he is.
He should've known this would happen, if he were as politically aware and intelligent as he should be, being a high-profile public servant.
Dumbass.
Posted by: Austin on 04/04/07 at 5:47 PM