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John Mccain 6 20.00%
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Re: Getting a bit closer now pick your Republican candidate.

This guy looks like a winner...

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McCain touts Iraq 'good news'


John McCain, the US senator and presidential candidate, has said that Americans are not being told the "good news" about the Iraq war, after visiting a Baghdad market.

A total of 1,869 Iraqi civilians died in March,
223 more than in February [AFP]
...if you have a preference for one-legged kids and a lifetime of war debt.

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Iraqi guerrillas killed 6 US GIs on Saturday and Sunday in the Baghdad area.

A British soldier was also killed on Sunday, in the south down at Basra.


While 44 Iraqi soldiers died in action, the total for US troops in March was 85. AFP is suspicious about the disparity given that US and Iraqi authorities have said that Iraqi troops are leading the security crackdown. If that were true, they should have more casualties than the Americans.

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So nothing that John McCain saw in Baghdad on Sunday meant a damn thing. Not a goddamn thing.

It makes my blood boil.

Because McCain, you see, knows exactly what I know about guerrilla wars and civil wars. Hell, people used to shop freely in Saigon in the early 1970s! And if he is saying what he is saying, it is because he is attempting to convey an overly optimistic picture with which to deceive the American public.

The deception will get even more of our young men and women in uniform blown up, at a time when their mission has become murky and undefined.

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Remember that Baghdad market visited on Sunday by Senator John McCain to show how calm things are? James Hider of the London Times writes, , "21 Shia market workers were ambushed, bound and shot dead north of the capital. The victims came from the Baghdad market [Shurja] visited the previous day by John McCain, the US presidential candidate, who said that an American security plan in the capital was starting to show signs of progress."

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If there's anybody left that believes McCain still has an accurate perception of reality, speak up.


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Kirk Semple of the NYT bothered to actually interview the merchants at Shurja market. They were surprised at Indiana congressman Mike Pence's characterization of it as “like a normal outdoor market in Indiana in the summertime . . .”

Yeah, those Indianans are hard core. Why, they'll kidnap a couple dozen Methodists at the outdoor market, blindfold them, drill holes in them, expose them to acid, and dump them on Main Street just before dawn to get a rise out of the police patrolmen when they show up for coffee and donuts.

If I were from Indiana, I'd be rather angry about Pence's comparison, and would vote him out in the next election.
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