"Syria is Iran's route to the sea"

[markpkessinger]

[andym]

1. Need a good twitter line: how about #romneysea4Iran nt.

[JB126]

2. Poor Mittens

Bad enough he needs a world history book, but now we have to get him a globe too! He's as dumb as Palin!

[pokerfan]

3. Well, it sort of is...

you have to jump over Egypt first.

[Indpndnt]

7. Egypt?!?! ROFL! No wonder Willard is confused. He reads Faux Snooze maps!

Omg. Egypt!!

[pokerfan]

13. that's life in the bubble...

[Indpndnt]

17. Willard needs a bayonet to get out of that bubble.

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[laundry_queen]

15. Oh my fuck. LOL!! nt

[markpkessinger]

19. Well, I say good luck with that . . .

. . . both to Fox News in its very ambitious relocation project (those pyramids will require one hell of a U-Haul), and to Iran in getting around or across Egypt -- wherever Fox decides to move it!

[mzmolly]

4. And if Obama or even Palin had said that????

[MADem]

5. I laughed like hell on that one.

I think he was confusing his talking points, and mixed up Iran and Iraq. Before Iran marched through Syria, they'd have to march OVER the Zagros and through Iraq! That's a pretty dismal slog if you ask me!

Iraq has very little access to the sea; they have almost no Gulf littoral, and the Shatt-al-Arab waterway is still iffy--between the silting over from the years of poor/no maintenance AND the shit that was sunk in the thing--it's a tough slog to get up that way with any tonnage at all--you want your NOTAMS up to date and even at that you're taking chances.

Regardless of who wants to march to the Med, you've still got Turkey up top and Israel down below to pinch off any potential misadventures using Syria's or Lebanon's littorals.

He really stuck it in the grinder with that dumbass comment, IMO.

[DreamGypsy]

6. Arizona is clearly ...

... California's route to the sea...Go East....

Go East, young man! Go East!

[Quixote1818]

8. I can see Syria from my house

[nolabels]

9. No wonder both Poppy and * attacked Iraq

They were obviously trying to stop Jordan from invading Oman

[WCGreen]

10. Where in the world is Mitt....

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. I suspect he's lost.......and may he stay that way!

[Left Coast2020]

11. They may want someplace else to go for holiday?

Or to go swimming?

[renate]

14. the funniest/scariest thing about that

is that it was so gratuitous. It was a little factoid that he'd memorized, like the populations of various countries, to shove into his answers as if all that information were just naturally there. And even though he shoved it in there to show off or whatever, it was WRONG.

Either he can't read a map, or he is relying on foreign policy advisers who not only suck but can't read a map.

[Blue Belle]

16. *face palm*