A suicide bomber manages to breach the most heavily secured spot in Baghdad — not just the Green Zone, but the cafeteria in the Parliament building. This is like a bomber blowing up the congressional cafeteria in the Capitol.
And what does the administration say? Eh, you’ve heard it all before. Many, many times.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday that the operation was still only “at the beginning” and would continue to involve “good days and bad days.”
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), a presidential hopeful who this week spoke of “the first glimmers” of progress in the new U.S. effort, said the attack on the parliament building does not change the “larger picture.”
In contrast to the bizarre rose-colored-glasses statements of the U.S. government, the Iraqi government seems to have a different opinion.
“The security plan is dead. If they are able to reach inside the parliament, then we should not talk about the security plan anymore,” said Sunni legislator Saleh al-Mutlaq.
“Nowhere is safe,” said Ridha Jawad Taqi, a Shiite member of parliament.
Is it just me, or are the Iraqis the only ones here who have correctly described the situation?
This was just another opportunity for Bush to raise the laughable spectre of hordes of Iraqi terrorists boarding some kind of transport and swamping our borders, this bizarre insistence of his that “they” are coming to get us here in America is getting a little old as well. But like Dick Cheney’s constant connecting of September 11 and Iraq, he continues to reference this “coming to get us” plan at every opportunity.
“This assembly is a place where people have come to represent the 12 million people who voted,” the president said, referring to the parliament building. “There’s a type of person that would walk in that building and kill innocent life, and that is the same type of person that is willing to come and kill innocent Americans.”
Anyone else think that Bush’s statement sort of creates the impression that Iraqi innocent lives are worth a little less than American innocent lives? Like his plan is to distract insurgents by throwing wave after wave of Iraqi innocents at them to distract them from their plan to invade the U.S. en masse?
Kinda like Zap Branningan’s “waves and waves of men,” eh?
Brannigan’s brilliant strategy only works if the killbots have a preset kill limit…
Maybe Bush thinks the insurgency has a preset amount of bombs and ammunition.
OMG did you hear Bush’s speech today? He slammed the Dems and their bill with a departure schedule. and said that in the last election the ‘Amerrcan’ people did not vote for this change.’ WTF? YES THEY DID. They voted in the Dems just for this reason. How delusional is he?