(CBS Iraq) Allen Pizzey: we'd be glad to lend McCain a camera so he can record his experience

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/29/opinion/main2622349.shtml?source=search_story

Where Is This Iraq "Progress"?
Allen Pizzey Questions The Political Motives Behind Some Assessments Of Iraq Security

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For Senator McCain to claim there are places here where all is well is to woefully minimize the dangers faced by the troops he otherwise so admirably supports. A patrol of military police on their way to one of the about-to-be-established Joint Security Stations last week provides another case in point.

Leave aside the fact that the soldiers run a gauntlet of IEDs every day just to get there, and the convoy had to stop, gunners nervously scanning the surrounding houses and crossroads, until someone decided that a piece of debris in the road did not hide an IED. It was merely part of the seat of Humvee that had been blown up the day before, killing four soldiers. Once inside the walls of the fortified police station of their students and supposed allies, no American soldier took off a single piece of protective gear. American sentries backed up the Iraqis on the gate and roof. Humvee drivers stayed with their vehicles.

A young sergeant was assigned to accompany myself and cameraman Mark LaGanga wherever we went. When I suggested that it was fine and the sergeant could take a break, he replied quietly; "No sir. I need to be with you. Wouldn't want to take the risk of you being kidnapped."

"In a police station?" I asked. "You're kidding."

"No sir," he replied, "I am not."

Any time Senator McCain wants to walk the streets of Baghdad, unarmed and without a serious security detail, we'd be glad to lend him a camera so he can record his experience.

[BOSSHOG]

1. And as one brilliant DUer posted yesterday

Maine was pretty nice during our civil war.

I do not recall who posted that but just more wacky liberal brilliance.

[smoogatz]

2. K&R for the Straight Talk Express!

Boy, has McCain jumped the freaking shark, or what?

[Cha]

8. ..

[Bozita]

3. Now THAT's a real gotcha!

good find.

[myrna minx]

4. Zing.

I'd like to see what footage McCain could capture. We'd need to verify that it wasn't shot at some Hollywood back-lot or created by Disney.

[glarius]

5. Could this be McCain's sneaky plan?......He will go to Iraq and when he comes

back he will say, "now that I've seen how it is, with my own eyes, I must change my stance on Iraq." (words to that effect)....Wouldn't that allow him to slip out of the hole he has dug himself? Perhaps he has been looking for a believable way to reverse his support for Bush's war, since he has been gung ho for it from the beginning.....This is just my thoughts, but it's possible isn't it?

[myrna minx]

6. I think he so delusional that it seems unlikely.

He's claiming that he has esoteric "up to the minute" details that no one else has, even the people who are actually in Baghdad, so I think not, but you never know with these sneaky folks, do you. :hi:

[Cha]

9. As dense as mccain is now..

he will come back with his butt singed and say Baghdad is safer than New York City.

[LuckyLib]

7. there's a host of folks I'd like to see "walk the walk" in Iraq, including Pickles,

carefully scouting for all the "good things" going on over there. Rummy, Cheney, Condi, just march right on in!

[Tom Joad]

10. I would like to hear him repeat his statement to soldiers and hear their true response...

he would be laughed to humiliation and maybe even early retirement.