U.S. lawmakers prevented from leaving Green Zone

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/10/us-lawmakers-prevented-from-leaving-green-zone/

U.S. lawmakers prevented from leaving Green Zone.

A six-member congressional delegation recently returned from a seven-day trip that included stops in Ireland, Germany, Pakistan, Kuwait and Iraq. While in Iraq, security conditions prevented them “from meeting any Iraqis, leaving the Green Zone or staying in Iraq overnight.” Additionally, the “congressional members were required to wear full body armor, including Kevlar helmets, during the entire trip.”

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http://www.sctimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070710/NEWS01/107090061/1009

[MidwestTransplant]

1. Just like a market in Indiana.

[coco77]

4. who were they ...

if it is so safe why couldn't they go wander the streets like Mc Cain and Lieberman supposedly did.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Hope they were all Republicans who can tell us about how wonderfully safe Iraq

is and 'liberating' it is to wear body armor to even get in and out of a car!

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. "Let Freedom Reign"

[Cooley Hurd]

5. My congresswoman, Kirsten Gillibrand (D), just got back from there...

She had a different take than Michelle Bachman, that's for sure...

[alkaline9]

6. last throes?!? nt

[libodem]

7. more 'good' news

This surge is failing miserably. Why do we have to keep pounding sand down a rat hole?

[bdamomma]

9. more like 12B a month we are pouring into Iraq.

what this country could be doing with that money now, it is shameful, and the have mores just are getting richer in the US.

[monmouth]

8. Wish they had kept a lot of them there....

[Norquist Nemesis]

10. The were probably Democrats that Bush put on the TWL while

they were over there.