What do Republicans smoke when they go to Iraq?
by Kagro X
Fri Apr 04, 2008 at 09:14:37 AM PDT
We've all long known that Republicans were in denial on just about every aspect of Iraq. They love to wave the flag, swear that things are getting better daily, chant "Support the Troops!"TM at every opportunity, and even go out of their way to sing the praises of the private "security contractors" we use to do our dirty work.
But what happens when one of the big-mouthed weasels takes an Army joy ride over there to play tough guy?
McHenry: Surge is working
Congressman impressed with progress during trip to Iraq
BY JENNIFER MENSTER
RECORD STAFF WRITER
Monday, March 24, 2008BAGHDAD, Iraq - Congressman Patrick McHenry ate lunch with North Carolina soldiers stationed in Iraq on Saturday. McHenry was one of four members of Congress who went to Iraq over Easter weekend.
Well, here's McHenry telling the story of his reaction when his life was horribly disrupted by the tragedy of war-torn Iraq... when he was denied entry into the gym at his Green Zone compound. (h/t to Think Progress for the transcript.)
We spent the night in the Green Zone, in the poolhouse of one of Saddam’s palaces. A little weird, I got to be honest with you. But I felt safe. And so in the morning, I got up early — not that I make this a great habit — but I went to the gym because I just couldn’t sleep and everything else. Well, sure enough, the guard wouldn’t let me in. Said I didn’t have the correct credentials.
It’s 5:00 in the morning. I haven’t had sleep. I was not very happy with this two-bit security guard. So you know, I said, "I want to see your supervisor." Thirty minutes later, the supervisor wasn’t happy with me, they escort me back to my room. It happens. I guess I didn’t need to work out anyway.
"Two-bit security guard?"
"I want to see your supervisor?"
What. An. Asshole.
This M-Fer's in Baghdad, but whining like he's been denied a markdown by a cashier at Target.
And how about that old boilerplate crap, "the surge is working"?
As I'm in the process of going in the shower, I hear some noise outside that sounds... a little different. Wasn't quite sure what it was. But sure enough, the loudspeakers come on, with the announcement of, "Duck and cover."
I don't know what you do in a situation like that. So I'm just standing there, I guess, thankfully I'm alone, but I'm looking like a complete idiot because I'm thinking to myself, "What do I do?" The announcement's "Duck and cover," I mean, that's not too difficult, right? And so this goes off and on for the next 30 minutes. So I assume that there's some activity or something's happening.
Well, it turns out that there are rockets coming into the Green Zone. And when I went outside of the building, I noticed that the building next to us had been hit by rockets. Or a rocket. It was a warehouse. Some 50 yards in one direction, there are rockets that landed. Fifty yards in the other direction, the embassy fellow who's showing us around, his car was hit by a rocket. And as it turned out, I learned later in the day that the gym had been hit by a rocket.
Surge is workin', all right.
But there's even more. After wisecracking that he's "not trying to tell you a Hillary Clinton story," McHenry went on to claim that "one individual lost his life in the rocket attacks."
Only guess what? The U.S. embassy says no one did.
Green Zone attack originated in Sadr City, say witnesses
Near miss of US Embassy Sunday fits pattern of conflict with Shiite militias.
By Sam Dagher | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitorfrom the March 24, 2008 edition
Baghdad - A barrage of rockets hit the Green Zone – landing near the US Embassy – in Baghdad on Sunday morning.
The rockets appear to have been fired from the Shiite militia stronghold neighborhood of Sadr City in what observers see as further evidence that a cease-fire by the group loyal to cleric Moqtada al-Sadr may be unraveling.
Most of the rockets fell "really close" to the US Embassy that's located inside the heavily protected Green Zone, according to a diplomat who spoke on condition of anonymity because he's not authorized to speak to the media about the attack.
"Yes we confirm there was an IDF (indirect fire) attack in the Green Zone. There were no dead or major casualties," said US Embassy spokesperson Mirembe Nantongo.
Did the little weasel just make it up? It sure sounds like the sort of thing the nutbar frothers like Michelle Malkin would spend days on end researching... if a Democrat had said it.
Guess he thought it made him sound like a hardened survivor or something. But to real people, he just sounds like an ass. And a stupid one at that. "Things are goin' great in Iraq, except for the fact that everything around me blew up while I was there. Oh, P.S., someone died, so that should show you how tough I am for being nearby at the time. Or something like that."
This idiot is in your Congress. Right now. Making laws that you have to live by.
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