U.S. Embassy Security Coordinator Refused To Sign Off On McCain Visit - Too Risky

[Hissyspit]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/05/that-is-utter-rubbish-its-electoral-propaganda/

UPDATE: According to McCain adviser Max Boot, the U.S. embassy’s security coordinator “refused to sign off on McCain’s visit because he thought it was too risky.”

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/contentions/index.php/boot/322

Reporters may think this was like a Sunday stroll in Central Park, but that wasn’t the view of the U.S. embassy’s security coordinator, who refused to sign off on McCain’s visit because he thought it was too risky. The Senator thought otherwise, and he made an important point with his visit. Actually, two points: first, that the situation in Baghdad is improving; second, that the news media are more intent on ridiculing rather than reporting the first bits of good news to come out of Iraq in quite a long time.

[babylonsister]

1. McCain might as well pack it in; he's toast once all this comes out. nt

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. He is so stupid that he actually believed that the public would

be fooled by that stunt? He must be one god damned naive bastard.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

That fucking market got bombed the next day.

How many people died? Twenty-one?

[0rganism]

7. and the vendors who interacted with the senators were executed

so much for "five rugs for five dollars."

[Jacobin]

3. what an absurd statement in that article

"that things are improving????""

Jeezus fucking christ! He had to have 100 armed soldiers accompany him for this fake photo op, the area cleared before he visited, with snipers on the roof and four helicopters overhead.

What is it that makes some people in this country so STUPID, or so fucking BRAZEN as to make such outlandishly wild and ridiculous statements in the face of reality that is there for everyone to see?

[Hissyspit]

4. Yeah, I posted a response. It's moderated, so well see if it gets posted.

I said McCain shouldn't have made the trip if the security coordinator wouldn't sign off on it and that he risked soldiers and got people killed, and that he should drop out of race.

[Hissyspit]

5. They posted it. Here it is:

Hissyspit Says:

Thursday, Apr 5, 2007 @ 3:35 pm
The U.S. security coordinator refused to sign off on the visit?? And McCain did it anyway?

McCain’s visit apparently was the catalyst for response killings of merchants in the market he visited, and he put the soldiers who had to sweep the area before the visit at risk. McCain should drop out of the Presidential race. He’s become pathetic.

[Jacobin]

6. excellent

[Hissyspit]

8. Hmm. Maybe I should have used the words "accomplice to murder?" n/t