Whack-an-insurgent
Recently, potential 2008 presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) compared the insurgency in Iraq to a certain popular carnival game.
From CNN:
"Sectarian killings in Iraq have escalated since the February 22 bombing of the Shiite Askariya Mosque in Samarra. Nearly 6,000 people died in Iraq violence in May and June alone, according to a recent U.N. report.
McCain was also concerned that U.S. troops are moved from one trouble spot to another. 'What I worry about is -- we're playing a game of whack-a-mole.'"
Senator, let me be the first to say that your way with words is simply... appropriate.
But anyway, the article continues with a quick little summary of the Iraq situation-
"(McCain) cited Falluja and Ramadi as examples. 'Everybody knows we've got big problems in Ramadi, and I said, "Where are you going to get the troops?" "Well we're going to have to move them from Falluja."
'Now we're going to have to move troops into Baghdad from someplace else,' he said referring to the deployment of U.S. troops to the capital to support Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's crackdown on insurgents. 'It's very disturbing.'
Nearly 2,600 U.S. service members have been killed in the 3-year-old war."
With no end in sight. Hundreds of billions of dollars, 2,600 American lives, countless Iraqis dead. Thanks, Shrub. Thanks, Rummy. Thanks, Dick.
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I was working on a story today, and I had to leave a message for a local pastor. When his voicemail picked up, I heard, "Thanks for calling. This is Pastor Jim ------. Has anyone told you today? Jesus loves you! Yes he does!"
That was the highlight of my day.
posted by jack @ 3:10 PM
2 Comments:
Jesus loves you, yes he does...
Good quotes are so unforgettable-
so you know i work in a feminist bookstore-- the sign outside says "Room of One's Own" in large lettering, and below it, "A Feminist Bookstore" in smaller lettering
Yesterday i was working at the coffeeshop counter inside, talking with a friend, when a young white woman customer, very loudly, as if challenging everyone in the store to respond, in a somewhat Valley girl intonation pronounced "Is this a FEMINIST bookstore??? [pause] What does THAT mean?"
I could hardly contain my laughter to a silent snicker while the bookstore manager calmly attempted to explain the premise of the store's existence...
don't get me wrong, i'm all for asking questions when we don't know what something means-- it's just the attitude she presented along with the question...
anyhow thanks for the story.
lov ya (don't compare my love to jesus's though..)
Ha! That's what you get, you dirty leftist!
Another moment I'll never forget is when I had to type up a couple of letters to the editor a few weeks ago. One of them was from this crazy bastard who was pissed off about an ACLU lawsuit against a local sheriff, and somehow he jumped from the ACLU to Ruth Bader Ginsberg to Clinton to "socialist lawyers." Absolutely incoherent. At one point, he even called the ACLU a bunch of "red diaper doper babies."
Ignant bastards.
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