McConnell: We've given Iraq a tremendous OPPORTUNITY to be a normal country!

[Bluebear]

On Face the Nation just now.

"The Iraqi government has been a big disappointment. We've given them the OPPORTUNITY over the last four years to be a normal country."

On what will happen after the summer if the "surge" fails, will Republicans abandon bush's war? "I won't respond to a hypothetical like that."

[slipslidingaway]

1. K&R blame the Iraqi's??? n/t

[Bluebear]

6. Exactly. This will be the GOP's "exit strategy": It was ALL IRAQ'S FAULT nt

[slipslidingaway]

17. Yes, here's the video.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/06/17/mcconnell-sees-lower-troop-levels-in-iraq-by-this-fall/

[Cosmocat]

30. I have seen this coming for two years ...

It is the natural evolution ...

They blamed the "liberals" for not having the spine to stick it out, and emboldening the enemy, then the media for not showing the good things that were happenening ... But, as the majority of the public starts to wake up, they lose those straw men, so the only group left to blame are the Iraqis ...

For FREAKIN sure, it won't be the republican's fault ... Clinton, Hollywood, the media ... Everyone else but them ...

[Botany]

2. Mitch McChinless

"We've given them the opportunity ...."

4.25 million refugees 2.0 million left Iraq 2.25 million internal refugees

650,000 + addtional deaths

civil war

no electricity

no water

no schools

massive unemployment



Draft Deferment: Vietnam

[babylonsister]

3. He IS repulsive, isn't he. Just UGH!! nt

[dogday]

11. Don't forget sewage is backing up into the streets

and the neighborhoods are not safe for people to even go to the store...

[Botany]

14. So what is a little Cholera and Typhoid ....

... when you have "freedom & democracy?"

The people who started this war need to be in jail
what happened and is still going on in Iraq is death
and evil on a massive scale.

[DFW]

4. I guess it depends on what he considers "normal"

McConnell probably considered Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge "normal."
By that standard, OK, Iraq is positively sedate.

Some standard, though..............

[tridim]

5. Apparently a country can only become "normal" after we blow it up,

and kill hundreds of thousands of innocent natives. :eyes:

[kurth]

7. Damn low-performing ingrates

We bombed them and invaded them for no good reason...

[Gidney N Cloyd]

8. What an ass. That's like the old "The Beatings will Continue until Morale Improves."

And, Mitch, it's not a 'hypothetical.' It's a likely outcome. Not acknowleging or responding to stuff like that is what got us in this mess.

[spanone]

9. Yea, we blew up their country, destroyed their museums, history and livliehoods.

fucking ingrates.

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[EFerrari]

19. And all that to take out a guy we put in, in 1968.

What the hell is the matter with THEM? :sarcasm:

[MuseRider]

10. Hey Mitch! Define normal would you?

Oh yes, it is whatever fits your particular idea, nobody else's. OK. That is all I needed to know. Asshole.

[Jack Rabbit]

12. The surge will not fail.

They've already written the report that lauds it as a magnificent success.

[Beelzebud]

13. Normal as in a nice sunday afternoon in the park, or normal as in a car bomb killing your family?

[Solly Mack]

15. Let's keep blaming Iraq

That way we don't have to talk about the how and why of the invasion - the occupation - the illegal detentions - the torture

[aquart]

16. Utterly delusional.

[EFerrari]

18. After messing with their government for forty years.

:crazy:

[alfredo]

20. This would be a good quote to use in your LTTE. I'm from Ky

so you know we will be using it.

Yeah, cut off a guy's hands then criticize him for his penmanship.

[young_at_heart]

21. I wonder if he can really define a "normal country"?

What an amazing amount of chutzpah this man has!

[mopinko]

22. when is it our turn?

i can't wait.

[ananda]

23. only in the cloud cuckooland..

.. of crazy Reeps does McConnell's Iraq
exist.

IOW, what opportunity? So sad.

[Zodiak]

24. It is the DLC's line, as well

I believe that Hillary was saying something to this effect recently.

"Clinton had tough words for the Iraqi government, which she said has failed repeatedly to deliver on its promises.

"I'm skeptical that the Iraqi government will do what they have promised to do, and that I think is the concern of all of us who have heard this before," she said. "All the promises, and intentions in the world don't substitute for action and we haven't seen a lot of action."

Clinton traveled wearing body armor and surrounded by a phalanx of soldiers and security guards. The level of security, she noted, was much higher than her first visit to Iraq back in 2004. "

http://abcnews.go.com/International/IraqCoverage/story?id=2792632

So blaming the Iraqis has become bipartisan. In fact, almost everything "bipartisan" coming out of our government over the last few years have been RNC/DLC. Guess who is always left out in the cold?

[MiniMe]

25. Hard to be "normal" when you are getting the crap bombed out of you

[blueworld]

26. Wait, now I'm cornfused - doesn't he watch Faux News?

I thought it was normal in Baghdad, like when McCain (the cheap bazturd) strolled through the market and bought a $4.00 rug and the Congressbobble from Indiana said it reminded him of an outdoor flea market at home?

I thought the surge was working & there were happy, smiley Iraqis with purple fingers going about their daily business? I thought the elected officials were deploying well-trained Iraqi forces to maintain security in an even-handed fashion?

I mean, why would the US build a $300 million dollar embassy mansion in an abnormal area? I mean, we knew there were a few bad apples in their government dying & leaving to get medical care & a few renegade Iraqi citizens trying to leave the country, but I thought like Basra was so normal the Brits could leave! Am I missing something? :wtf: :sarcasm:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

27. Yeah, like Hitler gave Poland a "tremendous opportunity".

[badgerpup]

28. So, if ol' Mitch runs afoul of street shooting, or has a stroke or heart attack...

...then he has a real 'opportunity' to make some changes in how he does things...right?
IF he survives the arrival of the opportunity, that is...:sarcasm:

And NOLA has a 'real opportunity' to re-build and clean up the place too...:sarcasm:
:banghead:

I'm curious to know how much head-spinning a politician/pundit can commit before the spinal cord gives out the head falls off- bumpity bumpity bump down the stairs...

edit for punctuation clarity

[Johonny]

29. normal =

Christian Theocracy?

[eridani]

31. OK, McConnell--if you have a really bad migraine, howsabout--

--your doctor chops your head off?