Baghdad rocked as McCain, Cheney visit

[cal04]

Source: Associated Press

Explosions rocked Iraq's capital on Monday as Vice President Dick Cheney and Republican presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain visited ahead of the fifth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion.

Helicopter gunships circled over central Baghdad and the heavily fortified Green Zone, but no details were immediately available on the cause of the explosions.

McCain, the Republican party's likely presidential nominee who has linked his political future to U.S. military success in Iraq, met Monday with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki shortly before the Iraqi leader began talks with Cheney.

The Arizona senator stressed the importance of a U.S. commitment to Iraq and warned a U.S.-Iraqi military operation to clear al-Qaida from its last urban stronghold of Mosul will be "very difficult and very important."

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080317/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[Skittles]

1. Pleading the Fifth

yes....pleading the fifth

[buff2]

2. Ha!

Me too. :hi:

[anniebelle]

3. Maybe it's celebratory.

They have such big market days when McGoo and his entourage travel there.

[zanne]

14. They were fireworks!

And people were dancing in the streets! :sarcasm:

[Thepricebreaker]

4. They are there while we fight back and forth .. WE should be there trying to fix this mess....

[democrank]

5. Whatever it was, it was

celebratory. The surge is workin` and we`re bringin` them freedom.

[Hugabear]

6. No doubt killing a few Iraqis as a show of "progress"

Circle some random target on a Baghdad map, claim that there are "insurgents" there, and launch an airstrike. Then go through the dead bodies, and arbitrarily identify a couple as "Al-Qaeda".

[notadmblnd]

7. rocking it with flowers and candy I presume?

Hopefully, they'll go shopping at an open market. You know, buy some rugs, collect the flowers...

[Dr.Phool]

8. A whole barage of party poppers and favors!

Let the celebrations continue.!

I hope ole Deadeye Dick doesn't put on too much weight, eating all the chocolates they're throwing his way.

[goclark]

9. Did they visit any schools on their visit?

Remember how the children were so happy?

Hello! There is now and has been since the "surge," a news blackout.

[xchrom]

10. charming. dr death and his bride go on vacation. nt

[bdamomma]

11. so cheney and mc cain want to make sure that the genocide

goes on, and in the meantime it was reported that the Iraq invasion is off the radar for so many Americans, that is mission accomplished for this despicable regime that we have now. This will come back and bite us.

[bushmeister0]

13. We've been through this before . . .

US Grant wrote in his famous Memoirs of the Mexican War of 1846-48"

"For myself, I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation. . . To us it was an empire and of incalculable value; but it might have been obtained by other means. The Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war.

Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. We got our punishment in the most sanguinary and expensive war of modern times."

http://www.bartleby.com/1011/3.html

[AzDar]

12. I read at HuffPo earlier that the marketplace that McBatshit strolled

through so infamously last year is now 'too dangerous' to visit.
Now, THAT's progress....

:wow:

[Voice for Peace]

15. Great to know Cheney is now taking over McCain's brain.

I can't think of the name of the creatures who do that... move from one host to another.

[babydollhead]

19. fetus in fetu

[Voice for Peace]

21. yikes... I was thinking more of a thing that moves from host to host,

feeding off the host until there is no more to get, then moving to a new
usable presidenial candidate, i mean host.

[pink-o]

31. parasites??? n/t

[Voice for Peace]

32. hmm... no, that's not quite right..

more like the kind of creature that lays its eggs in the host and then the offspring devour the host from the inside,

or

something that inhabits the person, like a body snatcher, thought I'm not sure if that's what body snatchers do as I've never encountered one, as far as I know,

something that leaves its former host as essentially a living but empty shell, without a brain or will of its own, or

you get the idea, something like bush and cheney, and then if cheney gets lucky, cheney & mccain

[chelsea0011]

16. Are they all there together to buy vacation condos?

[DS1]

17. Great, now they can all go outside. There's only one bombing a day

right, Laura?

[SidDithers]

18. Just like an Indiana market in the summertime...nt

Sid

[Supersedeas]

20. footage shown on military websites -- military involved in '08 Campaign too

[tridim]

22. Medic, we need two new colostomy bags stat. nt

[ryanmuegge]

23. That surge is really working.

[grytpype]

24. McCain and Cheney should stay ove there until the job is done!

I.e., forever

[sparky777]

25. Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Isn't it curious that Dick Cheney, John McCain, Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham are all in Iraq at the same time. How convenient. Can war with Iran be far behind?

C:\My Documents\My Pictures\080317-cheney-iraq-vmed-1240a.widec?

C:\My Documents\My Pictures\885600496_e8cd8d3a29.jpg?

C:\My Documents\My Pictures\liebermaniraq.jpg?

[DCKit]

30. Dick's searching for strong, young organ donors...

John and Joe are honeymooning and Lindsay's looking for that Iraqi soldier who said "boys are for fun, women are for making babies."

[classysassy]

26. The stooges

the top stooge went to Crawford instead of Iraq.

[libodem]

27. Oh, you know it's so safe...you can walk down the streets

MY ASS!

[kitty1]

28. watch closely for changes in Iraq's relations with new pal Iran....

I think Cheney was doing a little strongarming with the govt while he was there. You won't be seeing too many tea parties between these 2 countries in the near future if Cheney and Co have their way.
I think McCain and Cheney were probably issueing out some ultimatums to the Iraqis in between congratulating themselves

[CreekDog]

29. and not in a good way

:yourock:

oops, sorry. :hide: