Hey, Let’s Go To Iraq!
John McCain challenging Barack Obama to go to Iraq is pretty childish. It’s not like a Senator’s meticulously-planned stroll through Baghdad is going to give them an accurate view of what’s going on in Iraq. Here’s McCain’s most well-known trip to the Green Zone, in which little shopping trip needed little more than a bullet-proof vest, “100 American soldiers, with three Blackhawk helicopters, and two Apache gunships” :
And here’s a photo from McCain’s most recent trip :
If McCain thinks challenging Obama to go to Iraq will teach him something beyond “American troops get annoyed when they get pulled from the field and put on ‘babysit a Sentor’ duty”, then maybe Barack can return the favor and challenge “Maverick” to visit a place where he could learn something. Like a junior college where he can take an Econ 101 class or a temp agency where he can learn what life is like for us who haven’t spent the last three decades in Washington D.C. married to a multi-millionaire or to a bookstore to read about how things are really going in Iraq…
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Pingback by A Second Hand Conjecture » The Initial Command — May 31, 2008 @ 8:13 am
That was pretty brilliant.
Comment by Josh Gilpatrick — May 31, 2008 @ 9:59 pm
Someone said recently, McCain better be careful what he wishes for. Obama will come back with a different view I suspect and he can talk with soldiers about their feelings. I doubt he would be find the surge is working as well as McCain claims
Comment by Becky — June 1, 2008 @ 2:39 pm
“American troops get annoyed when they get pulled from the field and put on ‘babysit a Sentor’ duty”
As an American Soldier who has done two tours in Iraq, I have to give you points over every politician and dignitary for your grasp of the obvious.
Comment by MrVetinari — June 1, 2008 @ 8:11 pm
“When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Comment by pogo — June 3, 2008 @ 8:21 am