Trent Lott on Iraqis: "They all look the same to me."

[Julius Civitatus]

Republicans met with Bush and didn't even acknowledge there is a war going. Zilch, nada. Not a mention. It's only the peons that worry about such things...

He ends his interview by putting all middle eastern people in one big sack of ignorance and prejudice:

http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/blogs/politicalticker/2006/09/lott-bush-barely-mentioned-iraq-in.html

Lott: Bush barely mentioned Iraq in meeting with Senate Republicans

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush barely mentioned the war in Iraq when he met with Republican senators behind closed doors in the Capitol Thursday morning and was not asked about the course of the war, Sen. Trent Lott, R-Mississippi, said.

"No, none of that," Lott told reporters after the session when asked if the Iraq war was discussed. "You're the only ones who obsess on that. We don't and the real people out in the real world don't for the most part."

Lott went on to say he has difficulty understanding the motivations behind the violence in Iraq.

"It's hard for Americans, all of us, including me, to understand what's wrong with these people," he said. "Why do they kill people of other religions because of religion? Why do they hate the Israeli's and despise their right to exist? Why do they hate each other? Why do Sunnis kill Shiites? How do they tell the difference? They all look the same to me."

War? What war?

[JI7]

1. what an ignorant asshole, and that part wasn't even the worst of it

[bdamomma]

10. trent lott I can vision him with a KKK hood on his head.

[Drops_not_Dope]

23. I'd be interested

in Lotts (Strom Thurmond) opinion of George Allen's recent remarks.

[katinmn]

2. Lott: Ignorant southern Baptist. How's that for a stereotype?

asswipe

[bobbieinok]

6. Carter, Clinton, and Gore all raised in SoBapt church

The only presidents, vice-president who knew as children the meaning of the phrase 'born again Christian.'

And the three whom the RW and religious right have most viciously attacked.

Weird.

[katinmn]

8. exactly my point. Lott - a Senator! paints all Iraqis as terrorists

How does someone so ignorant get into such an influential post?

[rrasile]

16. To bad

he didn't have a little wine and expanded on why people hate each other. I'd love to hear him open up on Jews and Black Americans. Have you ever talked to a Catholic that lived down there. We should never talk about HATE, deep down inside most Americans are just like Senator Allen and have a natural hate for anyone that's different then his family is.

[VeggieTart]

3. For once, I'm looking forward to Monday

Earl is going to have a whole bunch of fun picking this week's Top 10. I nominate that snotbag from The New York (com)Post who leaked the story about Keith Olbermann against the wishes of law enforcement officials. Maybe number 8 or 10.

[MadMaddie]

4. And all Blacks look the same to him too...

Once a bigot always a bigot.....

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

18. My thoughts exactly. In private he doesn't call them "blacks"

nm

[sandnsea]

5. Example of the greater evil

and why we need to keep working to put these assholes into the minority and then out of office altogether.

[reprehensor]

7. Nice.

Ultramaroon.

[formercia]

9. You can dress him up but you can't take him out

It's genetic. I better be careful not to sound like him. :)

[Skidmore]

11. Bet that's not the first time in life he's uttered that, and it probably

won't be the last.

[Canuckistanian]

12. Funny how people in a CIVIL WAR resemble each other, eh Trent?

Just like you couldn't tell a Union soldier from a Confederate soldier in the US Civil War without their uniforms.

[marmar]

13. He's just jealous that George Allen is getting all the attention....

"I was the O.P.D.R.S. (Original Publicly Disgraced Racist Senator) - why is Macaca Man stealing all my press!"

[spanone]

14. Once a redneck racist son of a bitch, always a racist redneck SOB

[Ravenseye]

15. Trent Lott is an American Hero

I have no doubt that if the evil Muslims were to come over and try and take over his home town, he'd take up arms to defend his church, and his town against the horde.

:sarcasm:

The fact that he's asking those questions belies his immense ignorance of the situation over there and shows that the Republican positions all too frequently are founded in an overt ignorance with no desire to actually understand a problem.

Trent Lott. American Hero.

:sarcasm:

[The Backlash Cometh]

17. I'm sure even the Iraqis who supported Bush at the beginning of this

war now know that most Republicans wouldn't shed a tear if our Army "accidentally" blew them away because most Republicans really believe it's okay to kill all 26 million of them.

[SammyWinstonJack]

19. The only time ** thinks about his war is when he's trying to get his own

way, or trying to scare the crap out of us. Otherwise he couldn't care less that he has caused the deaths of so many innocent people including US troops that he doesn't seem to mind using as bait to protect his money interests in Iraq! NOW WATCH THIS DRIVE! Fucking scumbag! OH Lott you POS, all southern white guys look alike too. See how that works? asshole!

[Greyskye]

20. I'm NOT defending this scum

I do, however, recall reading just in the past few weeks articles talking about the sectarian violence (civil war) now taking place in Iraq. The article talked about the black market for false ID's. Iraqi's are buying ID's which have a name which is neutral in nature - not identifiably Shia or Sunni. The point was that this is NOT an ethnic division - it's a religious one.

Which one of you can look into a crowd and spot the Methodists as opposed to the Catholics?

[roamer65]

21. Wasn't Lott another male cheerleader like Raisinbrain?

Repression is just amazing. :eyes:

[Hubert Flottz]

22. I trust the Iraqis more than I trust Trent Lott or Bush put together.

The Iraqis never lied to me. Not the Iraqis Bush is killing every day with my tax dollars.

[Vinca]

24. That, in a nutshell, is why we're in the mess we're in.

King George and his felonious band of thugs never thought to differentiate between the sects because "they all look the same to me." Maybe that's where Lott picked up the phrase.

[woodsgirl]

25. I was

hoping that with the Katrina debacle in Miss. Lott wouldn't be reelected. Wonder if racism trumps losing your home and not being able to afford food, shelter and health care? with the fundies, that is.

[sakabatou]

26. STFU Lott.

[bluedog]

27. most republicans look alike

the reps and senators all walk with a nose up their asses and have such a "smug"......."I'm a GOP'er look"............can't pinpoint it......but when one is speaking and no name appears...........just by the look.....you know it a GOP'er

[Alcibiades]

28. It's absolutely typical for Lott to be ignorant about this

Just as a "Mc" or a "Mac" might brand you Irish or Scottish, there are surnames in Iraq that brand you as Sunni or Shiite, and others that are shared by both. As another poster has commented, fake ID's bearing the latter sort of surname are in demand in Iraq. This has gotten a lot of press, and just goes to show what an ignorant SOB Lott is, and he's typical of Republicans in this regard. Republicans don't frickin know anything, and it's a good time to call them on it. (For example, my Dad was spouting off on how Democrats would raise taxes on the rich, and how this was bad, but when I asked him what the top rate was, he had no idea, and so I asked him how he could make any judgments on whether the rate is too high if he doesn't know what it is now. Poor, deluded tool. BTW, it's 35%.)

What I think is more telling is the comment that "You're the ones who obsess on that" comment. Perhaps if his fellow Republicans paid more attention to the occupation of Iraq it would be going better (I doubt it.) It reminds me of Bush's "I don't think a lot about him" comment in re Osama.

Once again, Lott uses the "real world" meme that Allen trotted out in his "Macacca" comments. It is a sign of the tenuousness of their actual position that the Republicans have had to re-brand the ideological fantasyland in which they reside "the real world." Which real world is that? The one wherein Iraq had weapons of mass destruction? The one where we would be greeted as liberators? The one wherein democracy would spread like wildfire throughout the Middle East? The one wherein Saddam Hussein was a participant in the 9-11 plot? The one wherein the president acted decisively to prevent 9-11 when he was told that Osama bin Laden was determined to attack in the US? Every time they trot out this tiresome lie, we should remind them who has lived in the real world, and who lives in an ideological fantasyland.

[nealmhughes]

29. Actually, the most outrageous part was his first half of the statement,

directed to the press:

"No, none of that," Lott told reporters after the session when asked if the Iraq war was discussed. "You're the only ones who obsess on that. We don't and the real people out in the real world don't for the most part."

This signifies that "real people" don't care about our troops as cannon fodder, massacres and rapes, dozens killed daily at the market or else going about their daily business -- he is wrong. It is the Neocon press and the MegaCorp who doesn't care. The American workers do care. It is our sons, nephews and brothers and cousins who are in Iraq, not Trent, who whistled while Biloxi drowned.

Oh, Trent, you and your lot thought you could make Bush Louis
XIV, but when confronted with reality, realize that he and you are all Louis XV, and are just hoping that you don't rapidly go the way of the XVI...
Oh, Trent, you of pretty plastic hair and a war or weapons system you never not loved, try going onto the floors of the US factories (if you can find one open that your NAFTA/CAFTA hasn't closed or outsourced) and tell them that they don't care about Iraq. You might find yourself in a trumble...

[Disturbed]

30. I am not a real person in the real world.

Hmmm.... I must take awhile to reflect on my unreal existence in an unreal world status.

:think:

[Kurovski]

31. He's going to be on The Daily Show

Would anyone care to send this to Jon Stewart?

http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_daily_show/index.jhtml

[Rocknrule]

32. Republicans all look the same to me...

[Kurovski]

33. Certainly in the darkest recesses of their souls, they do.

But the ones without souls have a more streamlined look to them.

[PegDAC]

34. Hey, Trent!

Bigoted redneck Rethuglicans all look alike to me.

[Jack Rabbit]

35. Has he ever said that about any other minority group?

Just wondering?

[Name removed]

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