Slog - Comments on More on McCain's Stroll in Baghdad http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/more_on_mccains_stroll_in_baghdad Today the New York Times knocks the legs out from under McCain's claim that one can take a care-free stroll through the neighborhoods of Baghdad: BAGHDAD, April 2 — A day after members of an American Congressional delegation led by Senator John McCain pointed to their brief visit to Baghdad’s central market as evidence that the new security plan for the city was working, the merchants there were incredulous about the Americans’ conclusions. “What are they talking about?” Ali Jassim Faiyad, the owner of an electrical appliances shop in the market, said Monday. Even Andrew Sullivan thinks McCain looks like... Copyright 2008 Tue, 03 Apr 2007 09:33:26 -0800 Tue, 03 Apr 2007 22:18:17 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Paulus “Like a normal outdoor market in Indiana in the summertime.”

]]> Paulus http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/more_on_mccains_stroll_in_baghdad#c688375 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/more_on_mccains_stroll_in_baghdad#c688375 Politics Tue, 03 Apr 2007 10:09:01 -0800 Comment by huh What is up with you guys and Andrew Sullivan? How many times a day do you link to his blog?

]]> huh http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/more_on_mccains_stroll_in_baghdad#c688376 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/more_on_mccains_stroll_in_baghdad#c688376 Politics Tue, 03 Apr 2007 10:13:10 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Man, normal markets have tons of choppers and armored humvees around them? I gotta visit Indiana more ...

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/more_on_mccains_stroll_in_baghdad#c688391 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/more_on_mccains_stroll_in_baghdad#c688391 Politics Tue, 03 Apr 2007 10:41:45 -0800 Comment by Fnarf McCain's going to drop out of the race in a month, watch. He can't fundraise, and he's getting hammered on all sides for his new "say anything no matter how ridiculous and transparently false" policy. The man's in his 70s. Isn't there a rocking chair and a mint julep waiting for him somewhere?

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/more_on_mccains_stroll_in_baghdad#c688396 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/more_on_mccains_stroll_in_baghdad#c688396 Politics Tue, 03 Apr 2007 10:53:03 -0800 Comment by longball I'm only 30, but a rocking chair and mint julep sounds sublime. I'm going to ask Liberty to install a rocking chair cause their julep is sooooo nice. I think McCain is getting what he deserves for betraying all that "straight talk" nonesense he used to promote himself with. Eat it old man!

]]> longball http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/more_on_mccains_stroll_in_baghdad#c688436 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/more_on_mccains_stroll_in_baghdad#c688436 Politics Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:16:56 -0800 Comment by Max Solomon isn't 70 a little old to be carrying president malignant narcissist's water?

]]> Max Solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/more_on_mccains_stroll_in_baghdad#c688453 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/more_on_mccains_stroll_in_baghdad#c688453 Politics Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:44:21 -0800 Comment by Sstarr Yes, most reputable news sources will discredit the "walk in Baghdad" story. But just wait. The idea that you can now "walk the streets of Baghdad" will enter the right wing punditsphere, and in a few months all conservatives will be repeating that little sound bite as gospel truth.

]]> Sstarr http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/more_on_mccains_stroll_in_baghdad#c688461 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/more_on_mccains_stroll_in_baghdad#c688461 Politics Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:54:55 -0800 Comment by longball @7 - lets hope so! If they believe it they may try it, and that's a sure fire way to thin their ranks. I can just picture fundy christian families packing up for a vacation to the shiney new safe and fun Messopotamia!

]]> longball http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/more_on_mccains_stroll_in_baghdad#c688474 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/more_on_mccains_stroll_in_baghdad#c688474 Politics Tue, 03 Apr 2007 13:14:14 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Let's take up a collection to send Hutch on a fag-bashing mission to Baghdad. Tell him there's homos there with their dicks out who need prayin' over. Get him a t-shirt with a picture of Ayatollah Khameini on it and send him to a Sunni marketplace, asking "are there any men who lie with men here?"

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/more_on_mccains_stroll_in_baghdad#c688535 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/more_on_mccains_stroll_in_baghdad#c688535 Politics Tue, 03 Apr 2007 14:18:08 -0800 Comment by wile_e_quixote fnarf@9

Dude, I'm so in. Put me down for a hundred bucks and let's figure out how to teach Hutch how to say "I'm here to convert you heathen Arab faggots to Christianity".

]]> wile_e_quixote http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/more_on_mccains_stroll_in_baghdad#c688680 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/more_on_mccains_stroll_in_baghdad#c688680 Politics Tue, 03 Apr 2007 22:18:17 -0800