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April 7, 2007
Baghdad in the Midwest cornfields
What an outing to a market in Indiana would look like if a congressman's observations were correct.By John Kenney, JOHN KENNEY is a writer in Brooklyn, N.Y.
April 7, 2007MY WIFE came into the living room wearing a Kevlar vest, helmet and night-vision goggles.
"What are you doing?" I asked.
"Have you completely forgotten, silly head? We're going to the market."
I placed my hand at my head. I'd been so caught up in stitching a minor wound I'd received earlier in the day after going to an outdoor fruit stand that I had completely forgotten.
I have to say I had to laugh for a while after reading this one. Sometimes people's ideology gets a head of their ability to grasp reality. That is what has happened to a lot of the Republicans visiting Iraq. They are so desperate to prop up the Bush regime that they will tell any lie, no matter how big and easily disprovable to support what we all know to be false, but this is the world that the GOP imagines America to be. I know I went shopping in Indiana myself on occasion, I think a cashier may have miscounted some of my change once, then again that may have been Kentucky, but in my entire life I can't remember having to deal with snipers, bombings, or anything else that is a part of the daily lives of Iraqis right now. You'd have to be a cold, ruthless, calculating individual to even dare to make the comparison and yet every GOP'er seems determined to trivialize the Iraqis suffering because of their colossal incompetence. It's utterly disgraceful.
Finish reading the story at LA Times.
Posted by Jamison at April 7, 2007 10:28 PM
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Well, the gangs here are shooting up stores and busting out windows. So we will probably get to the scene soon enough. They don't seem to realize we can't keep lying to everyone and ourselves and have it come out right.
Posted by: mums at April 8, 2007 9:03 AM